OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.

way on force. Send re-enforcements immediately." With Buckner in our front, I cannot withdraw any troops from Sherman. Shall send a regiment which arrived last night, also Steedman's from Eminence -all that I think can now be spared. I will telegraph to the governors of Indiana and Ohio. I hope you will send off all the troops from the North you can raise. Arrangements in the proper departments must be made for securing supplies for the forces which will be thus suddenly collected in this State.

ROBERT ANDERSON, Brigadier-General.

LOUISVILLE, KY., September 30, 1861.

General THOMAS, Lexington:

I have ordered two regiments to re-enforce you, and sent telegrams to the President and to the governors of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois to forward re-enforcements as rapidly as possible. Do your best.

I hope that it will turn out that the enemy's force has been magnified.

ROBERT ANDERSON.

CAMP WILDCAT, September 30, 1861.

General GEORGE H. THOMAS, Camp Dick Robinson:

My wife sent a messenger to me that had just arrived. The rebels have taken Manchester, pulled down the flag, tore it up, and placed theirs on the same pole. The messenger says they turned back from Manchester, taking from one of the furnaces fifty wagon loads of salt.

I have nothing of importance to write you since Colonel Wolford left. I would like very much to have Colonel Wolford with us or some more experienced person. Lieutenant Dillon is quite young, though he appears to be very active.

The Home Guard are still coming in. Colonel Brown is trying to make arrangements to feed them with beef and flour. Captain Adams has written you, I suppose, on the subject of supplies.

I have no definite news that the enemy in this side of the forks of the road, though the messenger from my house says he heard guns firing this morning in the direction of the forks of the road.

Many of our men have never drawn blankets, and some who have joined since we left have no clothing. Captain McDaniel, of Colonel Barnes' regiment, has some 12 or 15 recruits that joined him on the road that have no clothing. If you have a supply of clothing I would like for you to have furnished sufficient for the recruits. None of the regiment have received coast, and the nights are quite cool. We had frost last night.

There are many persons here who cannot purchase food. They are willing to fight if they are fled, as they say they cannot go home. They are also willing to work or do anything also required.

If you could see proper, I would like to see you in regard to our fortifications. I am not pleased with them; they are very good, provided the enemy would march up to them, but infantry could flank us on either side. It is quite difficult to do so, but infantry can go anywhere a common hunter can. If it will not be convenient for you to visit the camp (and I cannot see how you can leave), I would like for some experienced person to come immediately.

When I reached [here] the work had been commenced 2 miles or more