HDQRS. SEVENTH PROV. REGT. ENROLLED MISSOURI MIL.,
Mount Vernon, Mo., October 9, 1864.

Lieut. Col. J. P. BRUTSCHE,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL:  I received a dispatch from Lieutenant Christian, of my regiment, stating that he with a scout of twenty-seven men and Lieutenant Hutchison, of Company G, ran on a bunch of rebels about twenty-five in number, fifteen miles southwest of Neosho; killed 6 dead on the ground and wounded several others, capturing some 10 or 12 horses, 10 stand of arms, together with a quantity of household plunder, a negro woman and child.  I am destitute of any reliable information.  I have a scout out west who has not returned.  Will be in to-day.  As soon as they arrive Captain Morris will move immediately to Springfield, in pursuance of orders, &c.  I will endeavor to keep you posted as to the rebels in this section. Please inform me, if you can, of the raid east.

Your obedient servant,

J. D. ALLEN,
Colonel, Commanding.

SOURCE: OR, Series I, Volume 41 (Part III), Page 731.

NOTE

Robert H. Christian was 1st Lt in Company K (Captain Ritchey's Company), and Lewis Hutchinson was 1st Lt. in Company G (Captain Ray's Company) of the 7th Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia, redesignated the 15th Missouri Cavalry on November 28, 1864.  Christian was killed October 28, 1864 at the 2nd Battle of Newtonia.  Lewis Hutchinson was the sheriff of Newton County after the war.

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