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281 Series I Volume XXXIX-II Serial 78 - Allatoona Part II

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LEXINGTON, August 21, 1864.

Brigadier General E. A. PAINE, Smithland, Ky.:

Garrison Henderson with a sufficient force, and with your remaining troops and the Forty-eighth Kentucky, which will be left with you for the present, operate as far east as Green River. Report by telegraph what regiments compose your command.

By order of Brevet Major-General Burbridge:

J. BATES DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEXINGTON, KY., August 21, 1864.

Brigadier-General EWING, Louisville, Ky.:

Leave the Forty-eighth Kentucky instead of the FIFTY-second, as ordered yesterday, with General Paine; finish the Twenty-sixth and Forty-eighth immediately; have the FIFTY-second return with Hobson, also that part of the Twenty-sixth now with him. Have Hobson move here by rail at once with his whole force, including the whole of the Twenty-sixth. Put Maxwell in command of the Twenty-sixth and FIFTY-second. Stop all troops arriving at Louisville en route south. Order the troops from Owensborough to Louisville and use them on the railroad. I will send you the four companies now at Maysville and two more companies of heavy artillery. Have all detachments join their regiments at once; have these dispositions made at once. Answer.

By order of Brevet Major-General Burbridge:

J. BATES DICKINSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, August 21, 1864.

Governor MORTON, Indianapolis:

How would you like to have General Hovey assigned to command the Military District of Indiana?

Please answer immediately.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 21, 1864-10 p. m.

(Received 12. 25 p. m. 22d.)

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

General Hovey will be satisfactory. Order him here at once.

O. P. MORTON,

Governor of Indiana.

LEXINGTON, KY., August 21, 1864.

(Received 3. 50 p. m.)

Major-General HEINTZELMAN:

I have information that Morgan and Wheeler will enter Kentucky about the 29th of August with large force for the purpose of capturing Camp Nelson, Lexington, Frankfort, and Louisville, and destroying the


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