are insufficient, but our adversaries are no better off, and we should fight with similar means. Can you hire some wagons and show a force in the direction of London? Of necessity I cannot give minute directions, and can only say that if your men simply move, the effect will be good.

Yours,

W. T. SHERMAN, Brigadier-General, Commanding.

CINCINNATI, October 11, 1861.

HonorableTHOMAS A. SCOTT, Assistant Secretary of War:

General Cameron [Secretary of War] has placed me in command of the force at Camp Dick Robinson, Central Kentucky, and has ordered preparation for an immediate advance towards Cumberland Gap. I have no division staff except a medical director. Am I at liberty to name an adjutant-general with the rank of colonel, a division quartermaster with the same rank, an inspector-general with same rank; commissary, chief engineer, aides, with the rank of captain? Where can I obtain money? Please answer, as I am ordered to act with the greatest promptitude.

O. M. MITCHEL, Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAMP DICK ROBINSON, Garrard County, Kentucky, October 11, 1861.

Brigadier General O. M. MITCHEL, Commanding Department of the Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio:

GENERAL: Your communication of the 10th instant was received to-day at the hands of Governor Johnson, of Tennessee.

I have been doing all in my power to prepare the troops for a move on Cumberland Ford and to seize the Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and shall continue to do all I can to assist you until your arrival here; but justice to myself requires that I ask to be relieved from duty with these troops, since the Secretary has thought it necessary to supersede me in the command, without, as I conceive, any just cause for so doing.

I have already sent one regiment forward, and shall send the others as soon as I can get the transportation. It was my desire to have advanced two regiments and a battery about 6 miles beyond London, to secure the road to Barboursville and to protect a large tract of country abounding in forage, but pu to this time have not been able to get the transportation.

I have also been very much embarrassed in my operations from the want of funds, not having received any since my arrival here, nearly a month ago. I hope the Government will be more liberal with you.

I am, general, respectfully, &c., your obedient servant,

GEO. H. THOMAS, Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.

CAMP KENTON, October 11, 1861.

General THOMAS, Commanding Camp Dick Robinson:

SIR: I inclose herewith the copy of a letter received this afternoon from Colonel Harris, of the Second Ohio Regiment, at Camp Gill, at the