OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.

[Instructions.]

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, Paducah, Ky., September 6, 1861

Brigadier General E.A. PAINE, Commanding Ninth Illinois Volunteers:

Upon my departure you will assume command of the troops at this post, and make such disposal of the forces as will best enable you to retain possession, and control of the city. A portion of the troops can be quartered at the Marine Hospital. You are charged to take special care and precaution that no harm is done to inoffensive citizens; that the soldiers shall not enter any private dwelling nor make any searches unless by your orders, and then a detail shall be made for that purpose. Exercise the strictest discipline against any soldier who shall insult citizens or engage in plundering private property. Make frequent reports to me at district headquarters and also to the Department of the West, at Saint Louis, sending me copies of such reports.

By order of Brigadier-General Grant:

WM. S. HILLYER, Captain and Aide-de-Camp.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, Cairo, Ill., September 6, 1861

Brigadier General E.A. PAINE, Commanding, &c., Paducah, Ky.:

Take possession of the wharf boats at the landing and make use of them for storehouses. I would recommend that you have your captured stores and all others sent to these boats immediately, to guard against losing them. I send you five companies of Colonel Oglesby's regiment without baggage, and I want them returned by the same boat that takes Smith's regiment. I can send you one or two companies of cavalry in a day or two, and am in hopes two more pieces of artillery will be added to the battery you now have.

U.S. GRANT, Brigadier-General, Commanding.

CAIRO, ILL., September 6, 1861

Brigadier General E.A. PAINE:

I am instructed by General Grant, who has left for Cape Girardeau, to add to the foregoing the additional instruction, that should you apprehend an attack from the enemy you will seize all the money in the banks, assuring the citizens that it is done for the purpose of securing the deposits of the Union men as well as to guards against its falling into the hands of the enemy. You will then place it on one of the gunboats for safe-keeping.

By order of General Grant:

WM. S. HILLYER, Captain and Aide-de-Camp.

CAIRO, ILL., September 6, 1861 Colonel M.L. SMITH, Commanding Eighth Regiment Missouri Vols.:

Without leaving the steamer you are now on, you will proceed at once to Paducah, Ky., and there report to Brigadier-General Paine, now in command at that place, for duty. I have selected your regiment and yourself for that post, deeming it of the utmost importance to have troops and a commander that can be expected to do good service.

U.S. GRANT, Brigadier-General, Commanding.