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pared to send to General Polk will be received and mustered into service. This last suggestion is based on a telegram from General Polk, announcing your proposition to him. Answer by telegraph.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
NASHVILLE, September 16, 1861.
His Excellency JOHN J. PETTUS, Jackson, Miss.:
The mustering officer will be at the place appointed. Orders and transportation ready for the troops. All the troops you can send armed are needed at once. I have no authority to receive General Davis. This power is in the President alone.
A. S. JOHNSTON, General.
NASHVILLE, TENN., September 16, 1861.
Colonel LLOYD TILGHMAN, Commanding Kentucky Brigade:
SIR: You will make the following dispositions for the movement directed by General Johnston: You will replace the telegraph operator at the State line and guard the present operator securely during the day. You will have a small force so disposed as to prevent the escape of the evening train from Louisville. The transportation train will be at Camp Boone, under your order, at 4 p. m.; you will be in readiness with your command at the State line by the time of arrival of the Louisville train; you will direct the connection of the two tracks, beginning the work only in time to complete it by dusk. Major ---'s battalion, with the artillery, will be disposed in the advance. The companies and battalions will be disposed in regular order. The troops will be provided with two days' provisions in haversacks and a week's supply in addition.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. B. BUCKNER, Brigadier-General, C. S. Army.
NASHVILLE, September 16, 1861.
HonorableL. P. WALKER, Secretary of War C. S. A.:
SIR: I have the honor to inclose a rough copy of the deed of transfer by the State of Tennessee to the Confederate Government of the ordnance, quartermaster's, and commissary stores and supplies, which I submit now, as it may be weeks before full reports from State quartermasters are received and the transfer rendered complete. I had hoped before this to have reported the entire transfer as perfected and the said stores and supplies received and receipted for, but the quartermaster's department of Tennessee has been dilatory. I have received only one report from their department, which I herewith inclose. I am waiting now for their other reports, having requested them to dispatch special orders to their different posts, and thus to procure speedy returns. Should they not be received within a reasonable time, I presume it will be necessary for me to look up their quartermasters personally. I have transferred the stores and supplies of this depot to Captain John T. Shaaff, of the subsistence department, and inclose his receipts of the transfer. The ordnance stores I will transfer to Captain Wright, lately
