[CHAP.XII. OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.

is his duty to lay these facts before General Johnson, and urge their importance upon him.

A spy has been arrested to-day with papers upon him, showing that he was not only playing that part, but also that of an enlisting officer. A court of inquiry has been ordered, which will proceed regularly, but expeditiously, to examine the matter. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

POWHATAN ELLIS, JR., Assistant Adjutant-General.

P. S. -General Tilghman is too unwell to write himself. Since I have commenced my letter further information has been received to show that the first was entirely correct.

CAMP BUCKNER, October 30, 1861.

Colonel W. B. WOOD, Sixteenth Alabama Regiment, Knoxville, Tenn.:

SIR: Our scouts day before yesterday drove back a small party of cavalry scouts of the enemy at Laurel Bridge, and captured three prisoners, who state that the enemy are 9,00 strong near London. If they attempt an invasion of East Tennessee, it is rather probable they will move by way of the passes near Jacksborough or Jamestown. While our scouts are observing this road they might be advancing by one of the others roads. I have therefore taken steps to have four cavalry companies employed in scouting from Jacksborough to Williamsburg. I have heretofore ordered Lieutenant-Colonel McClellan to send one cavalry company to observe the road from Huntsville to Montgomery, and his six other companies ought to watch the road from Monticello to Jamestown. I will the other cavalry on this road. I will dispose the infantry I can discover what is to be the precise movement of the borough, until I c an discover what is to be the precise movement of the enemy, when I will strike him with my concentrated force should he approach in any direction.

Watch the movement of the Lincoln men in East Tennessee. Restrain our ultra friends from acts of indiscretion. Promptly meet and put down any attempt open hostility. But I have observed heretofore that a few of our friends about Knoxville are unnecessarily nervous; give their expressions of apprehension only their due weight. Urge the brigade quartermaster to get artillery horses heretofore ordered and the supply of horseshoes at the earliest practicable day.

Very respectfully,

F. K. ZOLLICOFFER, Brigadier-General.

CUMBERLAND GAP, October 30, 1861.

Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General, Bowling Green, Ky.:

SIR: I reached this post this evening. The defenses progressed rapidly. Extensive entrenchments for infantry, and seven pieces of artillery in good position, though the platforms have been completed for only two or three pieces. A cavalry company sent yesterday to Jacksborough has caught and sent in a Lincoln emissary, who says that it is the plan of the enemy to send two or three regiments in