CASSVILLE, Mo., February 10, 1865.

Brigadier-General SANBORN:

I have been at Camp Walker and Spavinaw.  There are not more than ten or twelve rebels in any squad in the southwest that I can hear of.  If you want me to go to Neosho and west of there, notify me here.  It was cold; I returned back.

J. B. HICKOCK

SOURCE: OR, Series I, Volume 48, Part I, Page 810.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI,
Springfield, Mo., February 11, 1865.

J. B. HICKOCK,
Cassville, Mo.:

You may go to Yellville or the White River in the vicinity of Yellville and learn what Dobbin intends to do with his command now on Crowley’s Ridge, and from there come to this place.

JOHN B. SANBORN,
Brigadier-General, Commanding

SOURCE: OR, Series I, Volume 48, Part I, Page 819.

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