HEADQUARTERS HINDMAN'S DIVISION,
September 6, 1863.

Lieutenant Colonel T. M. JACK,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: The brigade commanders of this division have been requested to report as soon as they are ready to move, and the information will be sent to corps headquarters promptly. I write this to account for the present delay. I am apprehensive of trouble upon the subject of transportation for rations.

Respectfully,

[T. C. HINDMAN,]

Major-General, commanding

HEADQUARTERS BRECKINRIDGE'S DIVISION,
September 6, 1863-6.45 p.m.

Colonel ARCHER ANDERSON,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL: By direction of the lieutenant-general commanding I have the honor to inform him that my headquarters for to-night are on the open ground near the frame hospital which I pointed out to him this afternoon.

I respectfully suggest that I have received no orders except verbally from you this morning to move my command to Chattanooga, and that I have found my brigades moving under other orders, which is may apology for their scattered condition. I have officers in search of them, and will report their exact locality as soon as possible.

I am, colonel, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,

Major-General, Commanding.

CHATTANOOGA, September 6, 1863.

Lieutenant-general POLK,

Commanding Corps:

GENERAL: I am instructed by the general commanding to say that you need not put your troops in motion to-night.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS POLK'S CORPS,
Chattanooga, September 6, 1863.

Major-General CHEATHAM:

GENERAL: The movement of this corps is suspended until further orders.

Most respectfully, general, your obedient servant,

[THOS. M. JACK,]

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Major-General Hindman.)