LEXINGTON, KY., December 6, 1864.

Colonel WEATHERFORD,

Camp Nelson, Ky.:

Did you receive the order to guard telegraph line to Cumberland Gap? Have you sent the men?

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CAMP NELSON, December 6, 1864.

Captain J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The men will start in time to reach Crab Orchard to-night, as ordered. Cannot forces at Cumberland Gap patrol as far as Barboursville? I can then keep men continually going back and forth from Crab Orchard to Barboursville. There is no subsistence for men between Cumberland Gap and Crab Orchard. Answer.

J. W. WEATHERFORD,

Colonel, &c.

LEXINGTON, KY., December 6, 1864.

Colonel G. W. GALLUP,

Lousia, Ky.:

Did you receive the orders to send scouts to Pound and Stony Gaps? Have you sent them? Be watchful for a force concentrating at Jonesborough and Bristol.

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

COVINGTON, December 6, 1864.

Captain J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

A detective has reliable information that forty rebels pass Jackstown at McCarnihan's Mill to-night. Troops from Paris could intercept them.

P. T. SWAINE,

Colonel, Commanding.

LEXINGTON, KY., December 6, 1864.

Colonel EARNEST,

Commanding, Paris, Ky.:

A squad of forty rebels will cross the railroad from Jackstown to-night. Send a force to intercept them.

By command of Brigadier-General McLean:

[JAS. M. WATTS,]

Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp.

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