On the morning of the 13th I sent forward my transportation in charge of sixty men, commanded by Captain Roberts, direct to Carleton, Ark., and moved in person with the remainder of my command up Osage Creek in pursuit of Lieutenant-Colonel Fullbright and Major Harrell, who I was informed were encamped on Dry Fork. These officers had left just in time to be out of my reach, having gone in the direction of Kingston and Huntsville to join the forces under Colonel Hunter and Major Brown. I took five of these stragglers prisoners, left 2 severely wounded, captured 6 horses and horse equipments and 2 mules.

On the 14th, at 3 a. m., I moved with the main body of my command in the direction of Jasper, Searcy County, Ark., sending a detachment of twenty-five men under command of Lieutenant Smith up Crooked Creek with orders to approach as near Yellville as possible to learn what he could of the presence, strength, and position of any rebel force, and report to me at Lebanon, Searcy County, on the 17th, if not prevented by superior force. He proceeded as far as Clipper's Mills. Finding the rebels too numerous to go farther, he returned, bringing with him six prisoners and the same number of horses and horse equipments. My advance fired upon Lieut. John Dearing, of Cissell's company, near Hudson's Mills, but did not succeed in taking him.

On the morning of the 15th I returned directly to Crooked Creek and marched up said creek as far as Clear Creek. Lieutenant-Colonel Nichols, commanding Jackman's regiment, was met by my scouts on the edge of Rolling Prairie, and closely pursued for two or three miles, but effected an escape. His camp is reported to be on Marshall Prairie. One prisoner was taken.

On the 16th at about 8 o'clock I moved on Yellville with 100 men. Encountered a small force of Schnable's regiment, killed 2, took 9 prisoners, and captured 7 horses and equipments. Lieutenant Hastings, Schnable's regiment, was among the killed. At 8 p. m. I moved in the direction of Talbot's Ferry, intending to cross White River before the rebels would have time to concentrate. Having completed about onehalf of my intended night march, my rear was fired upon by a party of bushwhackers, which occasioned some delay. One U. S. horse was crippled. The injury done to the bushwhackers is unknown. I effected the crossing of the river by daylight of the morning of the 17th without loss or accident and continued the march as far as Colonel Cayces', capturing 7 prisoners, among them Major Mooney, of Schnable's regi ment, and 5 horses and equipments.

On the 18th I marched to Little North Fork. Three prisoners escaped from the guard, Captain Bowlin, Company L, and Lieutenant Hankins, Company D, having charge of said prisoners and guard.

On the 19th I moved to Beaver Creek and on the 20th to Swan Creek, where 1 prisoner was permitted to escape, Captain Millsaps, Company E, and Lieutenant Smith, Company L, having charge of said prisoner. On the 21st, at about 3 p. m., I reached Springfield with my entire command, having lost only two U. S. horses and having completed a march of about 400 miles in about ten days. I brought in 22 prisoners, 19 horses, 5 mules, 7 revolvers, 4 McClellan saddles, about $600 of Confederate scrip and $3.45 U. S. money; also several citizens' saddles, a large variety of arms, including several fine shotguns, with an assortment of blankets and clothing marked U. S. About ten bushels of salt was captured on the trip. From pretty reliable sources I learned that three brigades parted from Price's army at Pineville, Mo., and moved in the direction of Batesville, Ark.-Freeman's, Shel

by's, and McCray's. These commands are scattered from Marshall Prairie to Batesville, the object being to consume the forage and abandon the country north of the Arkansas River. Colonel Hunter and Majors Brown and Harrell, with about 2,000 men, are supposed to be in and about Kingston and Huntsville. Lieutenant-Colonel Nichols, with about 600 of Jackman's regiment, on Marshall Prairie; Colonel Schnable, with about 500 of his own regiment, at and about Yellville, and General Rains, with the Missouri State Guard, on Cowan Barrens. Rains' strength not known. I found sufficient forage to subsist my animals, but it is not plentiful.

I have the honor to be, &c.,

HUGH CAMERON,

Lieutenant-Colonel Second Arkansas Cavalry, Commanding Scout. Brigadier-General SANBORN,

Comdg. District of Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Mo.

NOVEMBER 12, 1864.-Skirmish near Centreville, Mo.

Report of Col. Albert Sigel, Fifth Missouri State Militia Cavalry, commanding District of Rolla.

ROLLA, November 12, 1864-6 p. m. Lieutenant Storz, Company K, Fifth Missouri State Militia, had a fight with a gang of bushwhackers twelve miles northwest of Centreville. He killed 3 and wounded 3 and captured 11 horses and 2 rifles; he lost 1 horse and had 1 man wounded in the knee.

Maj. FRANK S. BOND,

A. SIGEL, Colonel, Commanding District.

Aide-de-Camp.

NOVEMBER 13, 1864.-Skirmish with Indians at Ash Creek, near Fort

Larned, Kans.

Report of Capt. Theodore Conkey, Third Wisconsin Cavalry.

HEADQUARTERS,

Fort Zarah, Kans., November 15, 1864.

SIR: I have the honor to communicate for your information that on the night of the 13th instant, just after dark, an attack was made by a party of Indians, supposed to be about thirty in number, upon a train of five wagons loaded with corn for Fort Larned while in camp at Ash Creek, twelve miles this side of that post. One man belonging to the train is believed to be mortally wounded; the others, four in number, made their escape with the loss of their stock. This information was communicated to me by Captain Jacobs, in command of the post at Fort Larned, on the afternoon of the 14th, and I immediately dispatched a scouting party up Walnut Creek in the direction it was said the Indians had taken. This scout proceeded thirty miles or more up the creek, but saw no signs of Indians. The opinion prevails among men experienced in Indian character and habits that this party was composed

principally of Pawnees, from the fact that their plundering excursions are always made on foot, and as they were all dismounted and neglected to scalp the wounded man, who lay directly in their path, it would seem to confirm the opinion entertained that they were Pawnees and their object plunder.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

THEO. CONKEY,

Captain, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Commanding Post.

Lieut. J. E. TAPPAN,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF UPPER ARKANSAS,

Fort Riley, Kans., November 26, 1864.

Respectfully forwarded to department headquarters for the information of the general commanding.

The supposition of Captain Conkey in regard to Indians being Pawnees may not be correct, as since then Captain Booth and Lieutenant Helliwell were attacked in same vicinity by mounted Indians, as per report previously forwarded.

B. S. HENNING,

Major Third Wisconsin Cavalry, Commanding District.

NOVEMBER 13-16, 1864.-Scout in Pemiscot County, Mo., with skir

mish.

Report of Capt. James W. Edwards, Second Missouri State Militia Cav

alry.

HEADQUARTERS POST,

New Madrid, Mo., November 16, 1864. COLONEL: Information having been received that a force of guerrillas, amounting to about 150, were rendezvousing near Cowskin, Pemiscot County, I concluded to ascertain the facts and took forty of the Second Cavalry and thirty of the Enrolled Missouri Militia and marched on Sunday morning last, scoured the whole country between here and that point, and could not find nor hear of any force outside of occasional stragglers. Run on two guerrilla officers, Captain Kelly, who succeeds Bulge Powell, and one of his lieutenants, named Walker. Killed the latter and probably wounded the captain. They had just crossed from the Tennessee shore and had stolen a couple of horses. Also captured 2 prisoners, one a member of Bill Forrest's command, who says he was deserting, which we have cause for believing. He says Forrest is pillaging on the borders of Tennessee, and occasionally crossing to this side for the same purpose. The Enrolled Missouri Militia under Captains Howard and Kock behaved handsomely, and I think will do to rely upon in any emergency. They were picked men. Found Captain Hays' company of citizens in arms and ready for fight. His force is small, and are somewhat uneasy, being so far from assistance.

Lieut. Col. H. M. HILLER,

J. W. EDWARDS,
Captain, Commanding.

Comdg. Second Sub-District, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

NOVEMBER 16-18, 1864.-Scout from Devall's Bluff to West Point, Arg., with skirmishes.

Report of Brig. Gen. Christopher C. Andrews, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division, Seventh Army Corps.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, SEVENTH ARMY CORPS,

Devall's Bluff, Ark., November 18, 1864-10 a. m. COLONEL: The scout of 150 infantry under Captain Dreher, Third Minnesota, and sixty cavalry under Captain Flesher, Ninth Kansas, which started for West Point on the Ella Wednesday morning, has returned. One hundred of the infantry landed below Negro Hill and marched to West Point in the night, where it captured Lieutenant Oliphant, a notorious fellow, and ten other rebels, and then returned, having marched thirty miles in the rain on heavy roads. The cavalry landed two miles up Little Red and scouted ten miles out between that river and the White, capturing 6 prisoners, 10 horses, also destroying some saddles. No accident happened to any of our men. McCray is reported near Jacksonport with about 500 men. I am anxious to send a scout up of infantry and cavalry there on a boat. Generals Carr and West are still here.

Lieut. Col. W. D. GREEN,

C. C. ANDREWS,
Brigadier-General.

Little Rock.

NOVEMBER 16-23, 1864.-Expedition from Brookfield to Brunswick, Keytesville, and Salisbury, Mo.

Report of Capt. Eli J. Crandall, Sixty-second Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia.

HDQRS. BATT., 62D REGT. ENROLLED MO. MILITIA,

Brookfield, Mo., November 26, 1864. GENERAL: I have the honor to report that in obedience to your orders I made a scout to the Missouri River, leaving Brookfield on Wednesday morning, November 16, arriving at Brunswick on the evening of the same day. I remained at Brunswick two days, November 17 and 18, and left on the morning of the 19th for Glasgow, via Keytesville. On the 17th, while in Brunswick, I was called upon by several ladies, who desired permits to move their furniture and other effects to Saint Louis by boat. I said to all of them that I knew of no reason why they should not be allowed to do so; that I was not authorized to interfere with them and should not. These ladies and their husbands, so far as I could learn, were all universally disloyal. On the night of the 17th I was visited by several persons who were known to be loyal and advised not to allow these goods to be moved, as they thought them contraband, but as I could not learn that any of these individuals had gone with Price in his late raid, although they were known to have remained at Brunswick, and did associate and mingle freely with rebel officers and men, and also with Captain Ryder and his men, and did remain there during the entire command of the rebel forces unmolested and then on the approach of Federal troops did flee to Saint Louis for protection, yet I did not feel I had authority to interfere, and did not. On the morn

ing of the 18th I was informed that a citizen guard had been watching the warehouse in which the goods had been stored, and that men (citizens, not soldiers) had been prowling about the building all night in a threatening manner, for the purpose as was thought to damage or destroy these goods.

On the evening of the 18th an arrangement was made for Lieutenant Bryan, of Company E, Sixty-second Regiment Enrolled Missouri Militia, to guard the place with some of his men, which was done until the whole command was ordered into line, on account of firing being heard near the seminary. This occurred about 1 o'clock in the night; I had given orders before dark to have a provost guard patrol the town, and close all places of business before 10 o'clock and take to the guard-house all stragglers or soldiers who might be out after that time. This order was complied with, and I retired with Lieut. John S. Baker, of Company A, at 10 o'clock in the quarters occupied by his company. I was called by the lieutenant about 1 o'clock in the night, as shooting was reported as having been heard in the town. I immediately ordered all the men into line, and went in person to the warehouse where Lieutenant Bryan was guarding, thinking he was having trouble with those who had been prowling about in that locality the night previous. I learned there that the shooting had been in the vicinity of the seminary, and I found Lieutenant Bryan and men in readiness to march with his guard to the seminary where the balance of his company were quartered; I also ordered two companies to march to the vicinity of the seminary on double-quick, and placed one company in position for defense if needed. I went with the companies to the seminary, and ordered one company to scour the timber and brush in that locality. While executing this order the alarm of fire was given, and the report came to me that the stable in which our horses were quartered was on fire; I then ordered Company A to march to the vicinity of the fire, and went with them. I found on arriving in that portion of the town that the warehouse in which these goods had been stored to await the arrival of the down boat, which was momentarily expected, was on fire. I did, with my men, all in my power to save property, and but little damage was done outside of the warehouse. I was much annoyed by the occurrence of the fire, as I well knew that however innocent the soldiers might be, that we would get all the credit for it. I talked with some of the Union men who reside there and they expressed themselves satisfied that troops had not had anything to do with it, and that it was the work of outraged Union men, who had been mistreated by the owners of the property and their friends-the bushwhackers and rebel soldiers. None deprecated this more than myself, yet I could not help it. I find in Brunswick, and in fact in and throughout the country, that the poorer and most ignorant portion of the rebel community have gone into the bush as bushwhackers, and into Price's army, while the rich, influential ones (not gone into the rebel army), but who had no fears of bushwhackers, but did fear the Federal troops, have gone to Saint Louis, Iowa, and Illinois, for protection, where they will do all in their power to misrepresent (the only hope of this distracted country) the loyal soldiers, and they will also hold themselves in readiness to apologize for rebel soldiers and bushwhackers at all times, hoping that matters will get quieted again, so that they can return before the leaves of the forest again make their appearance, to assist to inaugurate the bushwhackers once more in their hellish work of devastation and slaughter, feeling that in one more season they will be able to blot out the last lingering hope of this State (the loyal people).