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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 19, 1862.

Major General WILLIAM NELSON,

Commanding, &c., Louisville, Ky.:

General Ketchum informs me that five Illinois regiments are under orders for Louisville and ten more will be sent next week. Granger's command is gone. Two hundred wagons are on the way to Louisville or being loaded on boats for that place. Make requisitions loaded on boats for that place. Make requisitions for transportation or anything else you want. Enemy has fallen back from here I think. Am waiting further advices from the front before sending you more troops from here. Have you any intelligence from Buell and is the surrender of Munfordville certain? Send back the boats for troops.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 19, 1862.

Brigadier General A. J. Smith,

Commanding U. S. Forces, Covington, Ky.:

General Gillmore telegraphs that he holds Florence and will move forwards as soon as he hears form scouts sent out by you on the right. He wants supplies at once and will wait for the company of Missouri Cavalry to report to him. Said company has been ordered to report to him.

See that it moves immediately.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.

WASHINGTON, D. C., September 19, 1862.

Major-General WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio:

Western Virginia is attached to the Department of the Ohio. Ohio troops in that vicinity should immediately re-enforce Colonel Lightburn at Point Pleasant.

H. W. HALLECK,

General-in-Chief.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, September 19, 1862.

Governor PEIRPOINT, Wheeling, Va.:

Western Virginia is attached to the Department of the Ohio,

headquarters at Cincinnati. Consult with General Wright about officers and troops to be sent to Colonel Lighburn.

H. W. HALLECK,

General-in-Chief.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 19, 1862.

Lieutenant F. H. EHRMAN,

Acting Assistant Quartermaster, Evansville, Ind.:

Say to Colonel Foster that he will render every possible aid to our forces at Owensborough. His force will permit of an adequate detach


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