OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.

WAR DEPARTMENT, C.S.A.,

Richmond, August 30,1861.

Captain KENSEY JOHNS, A.Q.M., Nashville, Tenn.:

SIR: Your letter of August 21 is received. It is the desire of this Department to effect with as little delay as possible a full and complete transfer of all stores, munitions, &c., embraced in the provision for transfer or contemplated at that time. For all supplies already issued, therefore, since the date of the act of transfer, the State of Tennessee will charge the Government, and the account will be paid. For all supplies on hand and to be transferred, whether munitions, ordnance, &c., or quartermaster's or commissary stores, you will execute a receipt in full on the part of this Government. All contracts, however, which were outstanding but not yet executed at the time of the transfer must, of course, be submitted to the approval of this Department before they can be assumed by this Government. Schedules of such contracts, with all necessary inventories, &c., you will please forward to the Department as soon as received, and you will fully advise the Department of all stores, munitions, &c., actually received, their locations, condition, &c., as soon as possible.

Respectfully,

L.P. WALKER, Secretary of War.

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Richmond, Va., August 31,1861.

General F.K. ZOLLICOFFER, Commanding Forces, Knoxville, Tenn.: SIR: Your letter of August 15,1861,* with inclosures, has been submitted to chiefs of the different bureaus, in order that proper dispositions may be made by their respective departments. The Secretary of War decides, in reference to Brigadier-Generals Foster and Caswell, that their functions cease with the transfer, as do also the connection between the Confederate troops and the medical board, ordnance board, &c., of the State. All expenses incidental to operations of the troops will be at the charge of the Confederate States from date of transfer. Blanks, &c., will be sent to you. There are no arms which can be furnished; and as regards wagons, mules, and other material, the Quartermaster-General will furnish or advise you upon all such matters relating to his department.+

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I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

R.H. CHILTON, Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS, } BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, No.12. Knoxville, Tenn., September 1,1861.

SIR: I expect to start to-morrow morning Captain McClellan's cavalry company by land to overtake and co-operate with your regiment. He knows the people and the roads well in Johnson and Carter Counties, and you will employ his company in scouting, getting information,

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*Not found.

+Details of regimental organization omitted.

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