OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP. XII.

SPECIAL ORDERS,} HDQRS. DEP'T OF THE CUMBERLAND, Numbers 67. } Louisville, Ky., October 22, 1861.

I. Brigadier-General Negley's brigade of Pennsylvania Reserves will proceed via Louisville and Nashville Railroad as soon as practicable to the camp on Nolin River. General Negley will report in person upon his arrival in camp to Brigadier-General McCook, commanding, for further orders.

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By command of Brigadier-General Sherman:

OLIVER D. GREENE, Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAMP DICK ROBINSON, October 23, 1861-7 p. m.

Brigadier General A. SCHOEPF, Commanding U. S. Troops, Rockcastle:

SIR: Your dispatch of the 22nd has just been received. Provisions for the Seventeenth Ohio, Thirty-third Indiana, and Third Kentucky Regiments were forwarded yesterday, and ten days' supply for all the troops will be forwarded to-morrow, along with a supply of 6-pound canister and shrapnel shot, under the charge of Captain Alexander Miller, ordnance officer of this brigade. Please have the ammunition equally distributed between the two batteries. Have the obstructions taken out of the road, and everything prepared for an advance party being thrown into London. I cannot determine yet whether we shall be able to advance until I can find out more about the forwarding of clothing and ammunition. Your success and the good conduct of the troops will afford General Sherman as much satisfaction as it has me, and I wish you to receive for yourself and express to them my gratification for their success.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEO. H. THOMAS, Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Louisville, Ky., October 25, 1861.

General GEORGE H. THOMAS, Camp Dick Robinson:

SIR: Don't push too far. Your line is already long and weak. I cannot now re-enforce you. Nelson has got into difficulty with the militia, and I have no person to send there. An interruption of the railroad, by an incursion from Prestonburg, would cut you off from that source of supply. Call to assistance the regiment from Irvine. The State board is impressed with the necessity of engaging in the organization of the volunteers, but we are still embarrassed for want of clothing and arms. Promises are a poor substitute for them, but are all we have.

I will again urge on the Department the pressing necessity for more good officers and large re-enforcements of men.

Yours, &c.,

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