OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.

I am glad to say our loss of men on the march to Mount Vernon was not so great as I supposed. Most of them have and will return. We may lose 20 to 25.

With much respect, yours, very truly,

S.P. CARTER, Acting Brigadier-General, Commanding East Tennessee Brigade.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,

Louisville, Ky., November 19,1861.

Brigadier General GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding Division, Crab Orchard, Ky.:

SIR: General Buell directs me to say that the orders he has given you in reference to the movement of your command contemplates the whole of it, and it will, in consequence, not be necessary to continue the depot from which you are now supplied. You will come upon a line of which Louisville and not Cincinnati will be the main depot.

The general desires to be informed in due season of the time at which you will probably arrive at Liberty, as he intends to have further instructions ready to reach you when you get to that point.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

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

CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

SPECIAL ORDERS, } ADJ'T AND INSP. General 'S OFFICE, No.88. Richmond, July 4,1861.

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6. The country embracing that portion of Alabama north of the Tennessee River, beginning at Waterloo and running thence east with the river to Decatur, as well as the portion of the State lying north of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad from Decatur to Stevenson, together with that portion of Tennessee west and south of the Tennessee River; the river cuonties of Arkansas and Mississippi, including Corinth, Mississippi, and the country adjacent thereto, and extending to Eastport, on the Tennessee River, the river parishes of Louisiana north of Red River, and that portion of Arkansas, besides the river counties above mentioned, lying north and east of White and Black Rivers, will hereafter constitute Department No.2, to be commanded by Major General Leonidas Polk; headquarters at Memphis, Tenn.

By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS, Assistant Adjutant-General.

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Richmond, July 5,1861.

Major General LEONIDAS POLK, Commanding Military Department No.2, Memphis, Tenn.:

GENERAL: In transmitting the inclosed copy of a communication to the governor of Tennessee, I am instructed by the President to desire