HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE FRONTIER, 
                                                                                                Fort Smith, February 22, 1864.
   
      GENERAL: Colonel Phillips, commanding Indian Brigade, reports to me from Middle Boggy,
   Choctaw Nation, on the 14th instant, as follows: 

              I have the honor to report a sharp engagement yesterday, in which the enemy were
          completely routed, with the loss of 47 killed: their wounded not known. The attack was
          made by my advance under Major Willetts, Fourteenth Kansas. The rebel force was
          Seminoles, Choctaws, and Texans.

          Colonel Phillips' command belongs to Fort Gibson.
                                                                              JNO. M. THAYER, 
                                                                                             Brigadier-General, Commanding.

    Major-General STEELE,
         Commanding Department of Arkansas.