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

To-morrow the gunboat will go up again to secure a ferry-boat about 40 miles up the Tennessee, used by the enemy from time to time.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

C. F. SMITH, Brigadier-General, Commanding.

LEXINGTON, KY., October 17, 1861.

THOMAS A. SCOTT, Washington, D. C.:

Send Negley and his command at once to General Sherman, at Louisville. If Randall has no guns, order his men to Louisville, and send guns there for him. Send 3,000 guns to Governor Morton, Indianapolis, who will put them into the hands of his men at once. Send the remaining muskets to Sherman at Louisville.

SIMON CAMERON, Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT, October 17, 1861.

General NEGLEY, Pittsburgh:

Proceed with your command to Louisville, and report to General Sherman for orders. I presume your river transportation will take you there, if the water is good, quicker than any other. If stores are aboard, set off immediately. Answer.

THOMAS A. SCOTT.

CAMP WILDCAT, October 17, 1861-12 p. m.

General GEORGE H. THOMAS:

Two messengers have just arrived from 9 miles beyond London, informing me certainly that Zollicoffer with his force is approaching and are at Stephen Collier's to-night. I must have aid here to-morrow. They say they have information that they have some 6,000.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. T. GARRARD, Colonel Third Regiment.

It is 25 miles from here to Zollicoffer's camp. Your artillery can reach here before the enemy does.

PARIS, KY., October 18, 1861.

Captain GREENE, Assistant Adjutant-General, Louisville, Ky.:

SIR: Night before last I wrote to General Sherman, saying that I would march at daylight yesterday (the 17th) to take possession of McCormick's Gap, on the State road from Mount Sterling to Prestonburg, by way of Hazel Green, and that I would find the enemy and report his numbers. I ordered the Second Ohio Regiment and Colonel Grigsby's militia to move-the militia at daylight and the Ohio troops as 8 o'clock. When the militia were called out to move they flatly refused, and, notwithstanding all the exertions of their officers, broke up, with the exception of about 120, turned in their arms, and started home.

Some who made the excuse that they could not march 13 miles in the direction of the enemy, did march from the Springs to Winchester last night, a distance from the enemy of 30 miles.