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In making the final disposition of his troops General Schofield directed Colonel W. A. Phillips to take command of the Indian Brigade, consisting of the First, Second and Third Indian Regiments.

After the return of the troops from the expedition to Van Buren to Rhea’s Mills and Prairie Grove, General Schofield, who had been absent on account of illness for more than a month, returned and as stated, resumed command of the Army of the Frontier about the first of January, and as there were no organized forces of the enemy in Western Arkansas or Indiana Territory north of the Arkansas River, new operations were to be planned and new dispositions of the forces to be made.

The federal forces pursue the confederate forces into Arkansas where they engage them again at Cane Hill.

In fear of the mounting Southern forces threatening to advance into central Missouri, Federal Generals Schofield and Blunt arranged the plan of operations to commence on the morning of October 4th, that would compel General Cooper to fight at Newtonia or evacuate the place.

On the return of the troops of the expedition under General Blunt from Fort Scott to Lone Jack, and the pursuit of the enemy from that place into Southwest Missouri, there was some reorganization at Fort Scott of the Kansas forces before moving south again about the first of September, down through the western counties of Missouri, and the new organization of the Kansas forces was called the First Division Army of the Frontier

Roster of Company K, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers

Roster of Company I, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers

Roster of Company H, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers

Roster of Company G, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers

Roster of Company F, Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers