OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE, [CHAP.XII.
If you deem it to the interest of your command not to have these mules delivered immediately, you can arrange to have them transferred to your possession any time within the next two months, not to be paid for until delivered.
This Department desires that Purchases shall, as far as possible, be made in the country where the troops are raised, in the hope that it will have a beneficial effect upon the Union sentimentals of the people.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Louisville, Ky., September 27, 1861.
J. J. ANDERSON, Esq.:
SIR: Your letter asking for information with regard to the meaning of General Anderson's proclamation* is received.
In reply I am authorized by the general to say that no one will be arrested for mere opinion's sake. All peaceable citizens, of whatever opinion, will be protected if they do not engage in giving aid in any manner to the enemies of our country.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
OLIVER D. GREENE, Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS, MULDRAUGH'S HILL, KENTUCKY, September 27, 1861.
Captain OLIVER D. GREENE, Asst. Adjt. General , Louisville, Ky.:
SIR: When I left Louisville in the cars, in charge of the Home Guard, followed by Rousseau's brigade, I understood my orders to be to station parties along the road to guard the bridges, secure the road, and to occupy the Muldraugh's Hill. On reaching the Rolling Fork of Salt River we found to a deep stream, with railroad bridge burned down and still burning. This, of course, stopped our progress, and we disembarked the men. Various rumors of the force of the enemy which had done this wanton mischief and stolen various cars and locomotives reached me, but estimating the force not to exceed 200. I sent forward a strong picket of 400 men, under Colonel Rousseau, and afterwards strengthened it by another 400, but receiving at telegraphic order from you on the 21st, I recalled Rousseau. Finding the effect of this to be very and, and that great importance was attacked to Muldraugh's Hill, and having notice of re-enforcements, I concluded we should reoccupy the hill; and accordingly, on Sunday morning, the 22nd instant, I put in motion Rousseau's brigade, and followed up with the Thirty-eight Indiana, Colonel Scribner, and the Forty-ninth Ohio, Colonel Gibson, and a detachment of regulars, under Captain Swaine. We ascended Clear Creek Valley, near the railroad, to the top of Muldraugh's Hill. We examined the ground near the tunnel, and then proceeded to Elizabethtown, and encamped near the town. The next day we moved on the Lebanon road to this camp, where we have been ever since.
Since our arrival the command has been re-enforced by the Thirty-ninth Indiana, Colonel Harrison. On our way up I left Colonel Crittenden's regiment to guard the road to Colesburg, but have since called him forward, and he is posted beyond Elizabethtown, the guarding
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