Maj. J. Nelson Smith, Second Colorado Cavalry (killed). Maj. A. R. Pierce, commanding Fourth Iowa, and wounded at battle of Osage. Capt. G. L. Gove, Company G, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (who commanded my body guard in early part of campaign and died from effects of exposure). Capt. P. Cosgrove, Company L, Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Lieutenant Gill, Company H, Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry (who commanded a battery of howitzers attached to my escort). Sergeant Slonaker (same company, who served with these guns). I desire to especially mention my own regular staff for gallant services on almost every field: Maj. T. J. Weed, additional aide-de-camp. Maj. T. I. McKenny, aide-de-camp and inspector-general. Maj. C. S. Charlot, assistant adjutant-general Maj. S. S. Curtis, Second Colorado Volunteer Cavalry, and aide-decamp. Maj. R. H. Hunt, Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and chief of artillery. Capt. E. I. Meeker, chief signal officer. Lieut. G. T. Robinson, chief engineer. Lieut. C. M. Roberts, signal officer. Lieut. J. R. Fitch, staff and acting chief quartermaster. My volunteer staff were all active in the field and elsewhere: Hon. James H. Lane, acting aide-de-camp. Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, acting aide-de-camp. Col. W. F. Cloud, Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, acting aide-de camp. Col. John Ritchie, First Regiment Indian Home Guards, acting aidede camp. Col. Samuel J. Crawford, First [Second] Regiment Kansas (colored), acting aide-de-camp. Col. W. Y. Roberts (formerly of First Kansas), acting aide-de-camp. Lieut. Col. J. B. Wheeler, Thirteenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry, acting field officer. Lieut. Col. J. J. Sears, Eighteenth U. S. Colored Troops, acting provost-marshal of the Army of the Border. Among others should be mentioned with honor: Surg. S. B. Davis, medical director of the Army of the Border. Surg. I. J. Pollok, Second Colorado Volunteer Cavalry. Assistant Surgeons Vance and Akin, Second Colorado Volunteer Cavalry. Capt. W. D. McLain, Independent Battery Colorado Volunteers. Lieut. G. S. Eayre, Independent Battery Colorado Volunteers. Lieutenant Beach, Independent Battery Colorado Volunteers. Capt. J. H. Dodge, Ninth Battery Wisconsin Volunteers. Lieutenant Hicks, Ninth Battery Wisconsin Volunteers. Lieut. W. H. Pierce, Second Colorado Volunteers, acting ordnance officer in the field. Major-General Blunt in his report honorably mentions the names of those on his regular and volunteer staff: Capt. George S. Hampton, assistant adjutant-general. Capt. R. J. Hinton, Second Kansas (colored), acting aide-de-camp. Capt. B. F. Simpson, acting assistant quartermaster. Capt. George J. Clark, Fourteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, acting ordnance officer. Lieut. Col. John T. Burris (late of Tenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry), volunteer aide-de-camp. Maj. R. G. Ward, First Kansas Colored Volunteers, volunteer aidede-camp. Maj. T. H. Penney (late of Thirty-fifth Missouri Volunteers), volunteer aide-de-camp. Capt. A. J. Shannon, district provost-marshal and acting division provost-marshal. Capt. T. E. Milhoan (late Tenth Kansas), acting aide-de-camp. Second Lieut. W. B. Clark, Company E, Fourteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, commanding escort. I also present the names of: Captain Carpenter, commanding battalion Third Wisconsin Cavalry. Lieut. J. B. Pond, commanding battalion Third Wisconsin Cavalry. Lieut. John Crites, Company D, Third Wisconsin Cavalry. Lieut. Joseph Mackle, Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, acting assistant adjutant-general. Lieut. W. H. Bisbee, Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, regimental adjutant. Captain Young, Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Lieutenant Taber, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, acting assistant adjutant-general. Lieutenant Goble, Company L, Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Surgeon Ainsworth and Assistant Surgeon Adams, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry; Sergt. Maj. I. H. Isbell, Quartermaster Sergeant W. H. Cowan, and Chief Bugler N. D. Horton, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, for gallantry in the field are deserving promotion. Lieutenant-Colonel Morris, Tenth Kansas State Militia. Lieutenant-Colonel Eves, Twenty-fourth Kansas State Militia. Major Smith, Nineteenth Kansas State Militia. Major Wiley, Tenth Kansas State Militia. Maj. C. Willets, volunteer aide to Colonel Blair. Lient. L. J. Beam, Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, acting assistant adjutant-general. Lieut. James Aitken, Twenty-fourth Kansas State Militia (severely wounded at Westport). Sergeant-Major Rebstein, Third Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry. Lient. R. S. Roe, Second Colorado Cavalry, acting assistant-adjutantgeneral. Lieut. William Wise, Second Colorado Cavalry. Lieut. J. Fenton Seymour, Second Colorado Cavalry (who was wounded at Little Blue). Captain Kingsbury, Second Colorado Cavalry. Captain Elmer, Second Colorado Cavalry. Sergt. Samuel T. Ferree, Company I, Second Colorado Cavalry (gallantry at Newtonia). Capt. Thomas Moses, Company C, Second Colorado Cavalry (wounded at Newtonia). All the names thus presented deserve honorable mention for uniform gallantry and energy. I must also include some, reluctantly left in my rear to attend to my support of men and means, and for earnest and successful exertions, therefore deserving this presentation: Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Davies, commanding District of North Kansas. Col. Werter R. Davis, commanding post-at Fort Leavenworth. Maj. F. E. Hunt, chief paymaster, in command of artillery at the post and city of Leavenworth. Maj. H. H. Heath, provost-marshal-general. Maj. E. S. Hubbard, Kansas State Militia, commanding at Wyandotte. Surgeon Buckmaster, medical director of the department. Capt. John Willans, assistant adjutant-general, headquarters Fort Leavenworth. Capt. H. C. Hodges, depot quartermaster, Fort Leavenworth. Capt. John McNutt, chief of ordnance, Fort Leavenworth. Capt. Robert Graham, depot commissary, Fort Leavenworth. Capt. Edgar Seelye, depot quartermaster at Kansas City, and till after the battle of Westport, acting chief quartermaster of the army. I name also as deserving honorable mention for active exertions in protecting the border, the post of Paola, and town of Mound City, and for gallantry on the march, and at the latter place on the night of the 24th and morning of the 25th of October, the names of: Col. Thomas Moonlight, Eleventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, commanding brigade. Lieut. Col. Samuel A. Drake, Seventeenth Kansas Volunteers (100day's men). Capt. S. W. Greer, Fifteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, commanding, Mound City. Captain Parks, Kansas State Militia, wounded at Mound City, also Privates Williams and Manlove, Kansas State Militia (the latter being killed at Mound City). I have the honor to be, general, your obedient servant, [Major-General HALLECK, Chief of Staff S. R. CURTIS, Major-General. No. 65. Report of Maj. Chapman S. Charlot, U. S. Army, Assistant AdjutantGeneral. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS, Fort Leavenworth, December 13, 1864. GENERAL: I have the honor to submit the following report of the history and operations of the Army of the Border and the share it took in the pursuit of Price in 1864: Of As early as September 13 the commander of the Department of the Missouri received information of the crossing of the Arkansas by Price and his army and of their march in the direction of Kansas and Missouri. You were then encamped on the Solomon River with a small force of volunteers and militia hastily collected for a campaign against the Indians who had lately been committing depredations in the western part of your command. Immediately on your return, September 17, measures were taken to secure the safety of the threatened border as far as was possible with the very limited force in the department, and on the 20th you telegraphed to the Governor of Kansas to notify the militia to be ready to co-operate in the defense of the State, proposing to the Governor, as far as possible, to use the militia only in garrisoning posts and to send forward the volunteers thus relieved. Notice same day was also telegraphed to General Rosecrans of the farther advance of the rebels, and on the 23d that Price was reported at Cane Hill. his movements and progress, however, our chief source of information was through Major-General Rosecrans, and they seem to have been so mysteriously conducted as to leave that distinguished officer in considerable doubt as to whether there was any enemy advancing on us from the south or not; e. g.: On the 24th of September General Rosecrans telegraphed you that he does not credit" General Steele's dispatches that "Price, with 5,000 to 10,000 mounted infantry and seventeen pieces of artillery" was at Pocahontas on the 22d; on the 24th, that "there is reason to believe that Price is north of the Arkansas line in Southern Missouri, &c.;" on the 26th, "my present impression is that he (Price) will come toward Jefferson City between Rolla and Lebanon and pass out toward Kansas," at the same time advising against any movement "too far south," rather to wait until "his (Price's) strength and intentions in Missouri are developed," and especially urging the retention of Colonel Ford's (Second Colorado) regiment in the neigh borhood of Kansas City. Again incredulous on the 28th. On the 29th he telegraphs the attack on Pilot Knob by Price in person and declares that "the question of Price's being in Missouri is settled." On the 26th, however, you had begun moving troops in view of the danger to Kansas from Price and his rebel army in Missouri. Colonel Ford, whose regiment had just been reported to you, was directed to move south to a point near Paola, and the utmost vigilance was enjoined upon Colonel Blair, commanding at Fort Scott, and Colonel Jennison, at Mound City. On the 2d of October General Sykes, commanding District of South Kansas, was directed to assemble forces at Olathe, including such of the militia as he might be able to collect in that vicinity. Same day Governor Carney, in response to your appeal to him for the aid of the militia, proposed to you to make a formal written demand upon him which he might publish as the basis of his action in calling out the militia. Colonel Ford, now at Independence, was ordered to send out scouts toward the enemy, who were reported advancing from Franklin and Washington on the Missouri River, and to keep in communication with General Brown, commanding at Warrensburg. On the 4th Price was rapidly advancing on Jefferson City, and on the 5th, his purpose to strike immediately for Kansas being fully developed, the desired letter was addressed to Governor Carney, and next day, 6th, General Rosecrans was urged to push forward his forces in the rear of the enemy, that "delay is disastrous." Daily dispatches were sent to commanding officers to obtain more accurate information of the movements of the enemy. At the same time every effort was made to hurry forward the militia. On the 8th, after repeated dispatches to the Governor to "hurry up the militia," each more urgent than the last, the Governor's proclamation was issued. The result proved that the movement was not made too soon. On the 10th Price was reported west of Jefferson City and martial law was declared, "to extend throughout the State of Kansas and the territory occupied by the troops moving therefrom." General Blunt was ordered to Paola and placed in command of the District of South Kansas, Maj. Gen. G. W. Deitzler, Kansas State Militia, commanding the militia, which was reported as turning out promptly throughout the border counties. On the 11th, when the commanding general took the field in person, the troops out of which was to be created "the Army of the Border" consisted of the Second Colorado Cavalry, Col. James H. Ford, moving from Pleasant Hill to Hickman Mills, and constituting the advance; the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, Col. Thomas Moonlight, headquarters at Paola; the Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry, Col. C. R. Jennison, headquarters at Mound City, and a detachment of the Sixteenth Kansas Cavalry, Lieut. Col. Samuel Walker, First Colorado Battery, Capt. W. D. McLain, at Paola, and Ninth Wisconsin Battery, Capt. J. H. Dodge, at Fort Riley. The militia, though rapidly assembling, had yet to be organized, armed and equipped, and on the 13th, when we left Olathe for Kansas City, the commanding general found himself quite in advance of his troops. Orders were issued to Major-General Blunt, commanding the right wing, Army of the Border, to concentrate at Hickman Mills, while the militia, constituting the left wing, under Major-General Deitzler, Kansas State Militia, were to assemble at Shawnee, on the State line, with a view of throwing forward the left in the direction of Kansas City and Independence. On the 14th we camped at Wyandotte, and the next day we proceeded to Independence, thence to Hickman Mills, returning same night to camp in Wyandotte. On the 16th Ford was at Independ |