OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.

to reach Lexington. If you can anticipate them at the Kentucky River Bridge they will be defeated. I have two accounts of the same party as having passed Scottsville and Tompkinsville. There are about 1,000 Kentucky volunteers at Columbia and as many more at Campbellsville. And will send word to Burbridge at Somerset by way of Lebanon; but on you I depend to intercept their march.

I am, &c.,

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

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Louisville, Ky., November 14,1861. (Received Nov.16.)

Brigadier-General THOMAS, Commanding, Crab Orchard:

SIR: The report you make of the abandonment of Cumberland Ford and Cumberland Gap in part confirms me in the opinion hitherto expressed, that the efforts to penetrate Kentucky by the three passes have been abandoned and all will be brought toward Louisville.

It may be that Zollicoffer may make his appearance at the Cumberland in front of Somerset, and you may hold you command at Crab Orchard ready to move to Somerset or Danville, according to circumstances.

Please make me a report of the number and condition of you command, that I amy know what dispositions to make. Telegraph me via Nicholasville when your command is at Crab Orchard.

Yours,

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

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,

Louisville, Ky., November 15,1861.

GENERAL ORDERS, } No.1.

I. In pursuance of General Orders, No.97, of the 9th instant, from the Adjutant-General's Office, Brigadier General D.C. Buell hereby assumes command of the Department of the Ohio.

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JAMES B. FRY, Assistant Adjutant-General, Chief of Staff.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Washington, November 16,1861.

Brigadier General D.C. BUELL, U.S.A., Commanding Department of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky.:

GENERAL: I have the honor to inform you that orders have been this day dispatched by telegraph to Generals J.J. Reynolds and Cox, in Western Virginia, to put en route immediately for Convington, Ky., one more Indiana and three more Ohio regiments; the former to be detached from the division at Cheat Mountain, the latter three from that at Kanawha. With these, suppurated to the re-enforcements of which