War of the Rebellion: Serial 019 Page 0394 MO., ARK., KANS., IND. T., AND DEPT. N. W. Chapter XXV.
SAINT LOUIS, May 20, 1862.
Twenty-five wagons, loaded with subsistence and ordnance, captured by the rebels under Coleman this morning 17 miles from Rolla. Colonel Boyd gone toward Waynesville, Major Goff toward Tuscumbia, and two companies will leave California to-morrow for Linn Creek. General Brown, Missouri State Militia, still at Jefferson City; Colonel Carlin with two regiments reached Cape Girardeau to-day; the other eight regiments expected to reach there to-morrow. I sent clothing, subsistence, &amp;c., to them. Steams will be in readiness to transport them. Captain or Lieutenant Cross arrested, and ordered to be placed in charge of Captain Hotchkiss, whose battery was to have left to-day. The detachment of the Ninth Missouri and Twenty-sixth Indiana detained for the present at Rolla, which has been much reduced by scouts and escorts; they will be sent to you as soon as they can be spared at Rolla. Captain Du Barry sent to Cape Girardeau to subsist the troop en route to you.
FORT LEARNED, KANS., May 20, 1862.
CAPTAIN: Poor Bear, the oldest chief of the Arkansas Apaches, has been here to tell me that a council has been held at Walnut Creek, in the longer of White Bear (Kiowa), for the purpose of hearing the report of 6 young men of the Kiowa Nation, who, under the leading of one of their numbering, Bird Bow (a soldier chief), had started early in the spring to visit the village of Bull Tail, chief of the Northern Comanches, situated on Red River, a tributary of the Arkansas. Arrived at the village, the chief summoned a council and invited them into them into the lodge. He then told them that he had made peace with the South Comanches and Texans, and that the Kiowas must no longer make war upon them.