WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, September 22, 1864—1.45 p.m.

Lieutenant-General Grant, City Point, Va.

Inspectors have been sent to Arkansas, and partial reports received. If you can spare another competent officer I would advise his being sent also. There seems to have been great rascalities committed under General Blunt on the Arkansas and in the Indian country.

H. W. HALLECK,
Major-General and Chief of Staff.