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473 Series I Volume XXXIV-IV Serial 64 - Red River Campaign Part IV

Page 473 Chapter XLVI. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION.

The regiment will be sent as above ordered as soon as transportation can be obtained, probably Wednesday morning.

By command of Major-General Rosecrans:

O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WARRENBURG, MO., June 20, 1864.

Major O. D. GREENE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Saint Louis, Mo.:

I would respectfully state, for the information of the major-general commanding, that communications from headquarters Department of the Missouri, dated 8th instant, were not received until to-day, owing to a blunder of the postmaster at this place, who allowed them to pass on.

E. B. BROWN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS,
Fort Leavenworth, June 20, 1864.

Colonel JAMES H. FORD,

Kansas City:

Following has just been received:

I have a prisoner in jail who pretends to know to a certainty just where Quantrill is encamped in Jackson County. He says Quantrill will cross the Missouri River this week, and that he is now 1 miles outhwest of the Blue Church, and 10 miles east of south from Morgan Walker's farm. The prisoner's name is Truman, and he has been a detective.

C. B. FIRSK,

Brigadier-General.

S. R. CURTIS,

Major-General.

WARRENSBURG, MO., June 20, 1864-10.15 p. m.

Colonel J. H. FORD,

Pleasant Hill, Mo.:

You will immediately concentrate your command at Pleasant Hill, leaving one company at Kansas City. The sick in hospital at Westport will be moved to Kansas City.

J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

KANSAS CITY, MO., June 20, 1864.

Captain J. H. STEGER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Telegram received after 11 p. m. Colonel Ford had been gone about one hour when received. Shall start for Warresburg as soon as I can communicate with General Ford at Pleasant Hill.

E. L. BERTHOUD,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


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