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

from the river. We have been still cutting timber in all the points or hollows that we think will be of service. I will return there if not instructed to the contrary - to the point near the meeting-house.

I would like to hear from you at your earliest convenience.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. T. GARRARD, Colonel Third Regiment Volunteers.

EVANSVILLE, September 30, 1861.

General PAINE:

General Buckner was at Greenville at 3 o'clock yesterday - destination, Lock and Dam Numbers 1, on Green River - with 5,200 men. Information strictly reliable. Send 3,000 troops with gunboat; 400 forthwith. We have 400 men there.

JOHN G. HOLLOWAY.

[Indorsement.]

Can't be furnished. I don't know Mr. Holloway.

C. F. SMITH, Brigadier-General.

CINCINNATI, September 30, 1861.

Brigadier General GEORGE H. THOMAS, Lexington, Commanding: General Mitchel has ordered Seventeenth Ohio and one more regiment on to-night. Four more regiment will follow to-morrow, accompanied by two batteries.

I will report myself to you to-morrow at 10 a. m.

G. C. KNIFFIN.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO, September 30, 1861.

General THOMAS, Commanding Camp Dick Robinson:

In answer to your request, just received, I have ordered the following commanding officers to report to you for duty: Colonel Steedman to-day; Colonel Walker leaves to-night at 9; Colonel Connell leaves to-morrow at 2,30 p. m.; Colonel Bradley at 7 a. m. October 2; Colonel Dickey at 12 o'clock October 2; Colonel Norton at 6 a. m. October 3. Two batteries of 6-pounders will accompany these troops, and I hope to forward a third very soon.

I will take the field in person in case I find it possible to leave my headquarters here.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

O. M. MITCHEL, Brigadier-General, Commanding. HEADQUARTERS CAMP DICK ROBINSON, September 30, 1861.

Colonel LANDRAM, Or the Officer in command of Home Guards on Big Hill:

SIR: The enemy is reported to me as occupying London in force. I thereof wish, and direct, you to obstruct the Richmond road by cutting