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616 Series I Volume XVI-II Serial 23 - Morgan's First Kentucky Raid, Perryville Campaign Part II

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Colonel Tevis is in command of the cavalry force - one company of the Fourth Indiana and his regiment.

Yours, very respectfully,

S. G. BURBRIDGE,

Brigadier-General, Commanding First Division, Army of Kentucky.

OCTOBER 14, 1862.

General McCOOK, Commanding First Corps:

GENERAL: March your corps at once for Stanford and follow on after the Second Corps. If Smith's division of the Second Corps has not marched it must giver up its place and fall in behind you.

Respectfully,

JAMES B. FRY,

Colonel and Chief of Staff.

P. S. - Don't delay the march of Gillbert's corps. The columns can move side by side for the short distance through down where they are on the same road.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1862.

Major General H. W. HALLECK:

General-in-Chief, Washington, D. C.:

On receipt of your first dispatch this morning I ordered Morgan's force to Point Pleasant. His troops are not absolutely required for defense of Cincinnati.

H. G. WRIGHT,

Major-General, Commanding.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, October 14, 1862.

Major General H. W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief:

General Morgan's forces are at Portland, Ohio, 24 miles form Gallipolis. They arrived without clothes, shoes, ammunition, camp equipage, &c., all of which have been supplied as rapidly as the transportation would permit. The last of these will be sent to-morrow. I have just returned from the various offices, where I went to ascertain personally the cause of delay, and am satisfied it had been unavailable. The river is too low to admit of its being used and the railroad is very deficient


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