HEADQUARTERS SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION,
Springfield, Mo., June 12, 1862.

GENERAL:  Two wagons of the Thirty-seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteers with 5 men were fired upon from the brush about 7 miles from Cassville yesterday, killing 1 man, wounding 2, and 1 taken prisoner.  Four horses lost.

I have made a stringent order against sending wagons or trains without proper escort.  Six squadrons of cavalry left Cassville this morning to break up a camp of about 400 near Berryville, Ark.  The First Battalion Colonel Hall’s Twenty-fourth Regiment Missouri State Militia [should read the Fourth MSM] arrived at Greenfield on the 10th.  I have ordered Colonel Hall to take command of the troops in Vernon, Barton, Cedar, and Dade Counties, with his headquarters at Greenfield.  The Tenth Illinois has been ordered to Mount Vernon, and the command of Lawrence and Jasper Counties given to Lieutenant-Colonel Wickersham, of that regiment, with headquarters at Mount Vernon.  Col. Julius White, Thirty-seventh Illinois, has command of the troops at Cassville, and the counties of Newton, McDonald, Stone, and Barry, with his headquarters at Cassville.  I have ordered six squadrons of the Second Wisconsin to Cassville.  Colonel King has not reported yet.  He must move very slowly.

I am, truly, your obedient servant,

E. B. BROWN,
Brigadier-General, Commanding

SOURCE:  OR, Series I, Volume 13, Page 119.

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