OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.

Have placed my two Illinois regiments at Camp Dennison, near Cincinnati, at the disposal of General Anderson, and so informed him by telegraph.

J. C. FREMONT, Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT SOUTHEAST MISSOURI, Cairo, Ill., September 22, 1861.

Captain A. H. FOOTE, Commanding Naval Forces Western Waters, Cairo, Ill.:

In pursuance of telegraphic instructions received from headquarters Western Department, you will proceed with the gunboat Lexington from here and Conestoga from Paducah to Owensborough, Ky., where the Confederates are said to have taken possession, and dislodge them. General Fremont's instructions are that the Ohio River is to be kept open.

U. S. GRANT, Brigadier-General, Commanding.

INDIANAPOLIS, September 22, 1861.

Major General JOHN C. FREMONT:

I much regret that subsequent events have prevented me from sending you the troops. Reliable advices on Friday show an advance on Louisville by a force of not less than 10,000 men, and Anderson had not more than 3,000. Anderson begged for troops. Our own safety required that they should be furnished. We have sent him four regiments, and one to Evansville, We are out of arms. Can you not lend us 5,000 for the time? Louisville is considered in great danger this morning, and many doubt whether it can be saved. Please send us arms by special train.

O. P. MORTON, Governor of Indiana.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Louisville, Ky., September 22, 1861.

Brigadier General GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding Camp Dick Robinson:

GENERAL: Your two notes of September 20* have been received. Messrs. Hoskins and Howard have been authorized to procure tents. We have none here, and no proper material for making them.

The danger in which Louisville is at this time renders it impossible for me to comply with your request that I would send you four well-drilled regiments and a battery of artillery. The latter has already been forwarded; the former cannot be obtained from any source.

A rally has been ordered of the militia and home Guards, and I trust that you will have a force of true men, who, battling for their firesides and their homes, will soon drive the bandits from our soil.

God save our country!.

Respectfully and sincerely, yours,

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

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