CHAP.XII.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.- UNION.

sent promptly to kentucky might save the State. Press the matter. I have informed Lieutenant Colonel T. J. Wood, First Cavalry. Have seen messenger from Anderson and had Colonel Wood informed of the above.

SCHLATER.

LOUISVILLE, KY., September 18, 1861.

HonorableS. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.:

SIR: It has become necessary to make an advance into the interior of this State by all the disposal force at my command. Many of the men of Rousseau's brigade and some of the regiments coming in to our assistance are too sick to go forward. Our general hospitals are not yet established; immediate accommodation is required for the sick. Under these circumstances I would respectfully request permission to put the sick of the Army in the U. S. Marine Hospital in this city. The accommodations as far as space are ample, and the medical purveyor of the Army will furnish bedding and bedsteads for the soldiers sent there. An arrangement can be entered into between the War and Treasury Departments in regard to the expenses incurred by keeping these men.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ROBERT ANDERSON, Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Louisville, Ky., September 18, 1861.

Mr. W. M. BRICKEN:

DEAR SIR: The city of Louisville has sent off her Home Guard to-day to aid in driving the traitors from the position they took last night at Muldraught's Hill. The people are commencing the same disgraceful course they have pursued elsewhere, burning bridges and destroying property.

Understanding from you that there are several companies of Home Guards in your neighborhood who are very anxious to be allowed to save their State and our country in this hour of our need, I will thank you to say to them that I will be greatly gratified to hear that they have promptly reported themselves to Brigadier-General Sherman. It would be well for them to take blankets and haversack with them; also as much ammunition as they can take.

I omitted to state that while in the service they will receive the same pay as the volunteers.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ROBERT ANDERSON, Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Louisville, Ky., September 18, 1861.

SAMUEL GILL, Esq.:

I will thank you to issue order at once and send runners to the different counties recommending the Home Guards, with their arms, to rendezvous