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sengers and freight transfer at Lynchburg. If the bridges are burned, as reported, they cannot send any ammunition in ten days, and few regiments.

JNumbers KIMBER, JR.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Murfreesborough, January 6, 1863.

Brigadier General J. T. BOYLE, Louisville:

Send me your re-enforcements via Cumberland River. Let me know when they can get to Louisville, or, if you can, send them by rail to the gap in the road, and march them across thence to Munfordville, thence by rail here. I thank you for prompt care of me and mine. Hope you will soon open the road.

W. S. ROSECRANS,
Major-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Murfreesborough, January 6, 1863.

Major-General WRIGHT, Cincinnati:

I did not write you because I was too busy, and uncertain of the result of the battle. It is now evident that their loss was excessive. Their own officers and men estimate their loss at from 13,000 to 15,000. I now wish to push them to the wall, but the pursuit will be heavy work. Send me what force you can spare, and take care of the railroad. I will write you soon. I congratulate you on the success of the Carter expedition, and the final expulsion of John H. Morgan. I wish you would get ready a large lot of saddles and horses, and mount your infantry to pursue him the next time he makes a raid.

W. S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. CENTER, 14TH ARMY CORPS,


DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,


Numbers 1.*
Murfreesborough, Tenn., January 6, 1863.

In compliance with General Orders, Numbers 41, from department headquarters, December 19, 1862, the divisions and brigades of the center, Fourteenth Army Corps, will be numbered and known as follows:

FIRST DIVISION.

Major General LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU commanding.

First Brigade.

Colonel BENJAMIN F. SCRIBNER.

38th Indiana, Lieutenant-Colonel Griffin.

2nd Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel Kell.

33rd Ohio, Captain Montgomery.

94th Ohio, Colonel Frizell.

10th Wisconsin, Lieutenant-Colonel McMynn.

Second Brigade.

Colonel J. G. JONES.

15th Kentucky, Colonel J. B. Forman.

3rd Ohio, Lieutenant-Colonel Lawson.

10th Ohio, Captain Amis.

42nd Indiana, Major McIntire.

88th Indiana, Colonel Humphrey.

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*This order was probably prepared before the date of its issue. Several of the regimental commanders herein named had been killed in the battle of Stone's River. In some other respects it does not represent the organization as it actually stood January 6, 1863.

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