OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [Chap.XII.
row. The state of affairs in Kentucky requires all the troops you have in the South not indispensably necessary where they are.
ISHAM G. HARRIS.
GENERAL ORDERS, BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 13. Knoxville, Tenn., September 12, 1861.
SIR: Three regiments have by this time concentrated at Cumberland Gap, and are under orders to march immediately into Kentucky 15 miles, and take possession of and fortify Cumberland Ford. I intend to concentrate three other regiments at that place. Colonel Rains is now on the march; Colonel Statham will probably move to-morrow in that direction. I design your regiment for the sixth, as soon as the disturbances in Greene are quieted. Lieutenant-Colonel Norris, with his battalion, will return to your command, and you will move immediately to Cumberland Gap, abandoning our expedition to Johnson County. I have to-day received information of the appointment of Major A. M. Lea commissary for my brigade, and your wants in this department shall be immediately laid before him. The revelations made in this letter with regard to my movement you will regard of course as private.
By order of F. K. Zollicoffer, brigadier-general, C. S. Army:
P. B. LEE, Assistant Adjutant-General.
Colonel BALDWIN.
WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A., Richmond, September 13, 1861.
Messrs. NEILL S. BROWN, J. E. BAILEY, W. G. HARDING, Military and Financial Board of Tennessee:
GENTLEMEN: Your letter of the 6th instant, calling attention of this Department to the urgent necessities of your board in meeting the claims upon the treasury of Tennessee and urging the Department to make provision therefor, has been received. In reply I have the honor to direct your attention to the inclosed copy of the act of Congress (Numbers 258) approved August 30, 1861, in the second section of which you will perceive that provision is made for the settlement of such claims on the part of the State of Tennessee. When the provisions of that act are duly complied with no delay shall be interposed on the part of this Department in satisfying the just claims of the State of Tennessee for debts contracted in the common service under her compact with this Government, and it is hoped that in the mean time this assurance may enable you to continue your operations without interruption or inconvenience.
Very respectfully,
L. P. WALKER, Secretary of War.
WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A., Richmond, September 13, 1861.
Brigadier General F. K. ZOLLICOFFER, Headquarters Knoxville, Tenn.:
SIR: In reply to your letter of September 9* I regret to say that,
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* Probably Turner et al to Zollicoffer of that date, p. 404.
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