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case may indicate, I desire you to issue it in the event that you have found or shall find it necessary to march troops into Kentucky.

Very respectfully, yours, & c.,

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

NASHVILLE, September 17, 1861.

S. COOPER, Adjutant-General:

SIR: I can mount and use Terry's regiment of Texas Rangers immediately if put under my orders. Please not to order any more armed companies from this department at present, and order any such organized within the department to report to me here.

A. S. JOHNSTON, General.

RICHMOND, September 18, 1861.

General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, Nashville, Tenn.:

Terry's regiment is understood to have been raised with special view to service on the Potomac. If they prefer to remain in your department, stop and employ them as you propose.

S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.

KNOXVILLE, September 18, 1861.

Colonel W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General:

SIR: General Zollicoffer has marched to the ford of Cumberland River, in Kentucky, with the whole of his available force, except the Sixteenth Alabama Regiment (Colonel Wood), left, with only about 300 men able for duty, to guard the magazine here; one regiment of this (East Tennessee Brigade, Colonel Lillard) left to guard the railroad and bridges thereon, and one regiment unorganized, but the several companies are under orders to rendezvous here to elect their field officers.

Lieutenant-Colonel McNairy's battalion is here under orders to march to the ford of Cumberland. I have two squadrons of cavalry reconnoitering in the mountain counties, and other cavalry here unarmed.

General Zollicoffer directed me to read and attend to his correspondence as far as I could do so. General Johnston's orders have been forwarded to him by special messenger.

Respectfully,

W. R. CASWELL, Brigadier-General, Provisional Army of Tennessee.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT GEORGIA, Atlanta, September 18, 1861.

General A. SIDNEY JOHNSTON, C. S. A., Nashville, Tenn.:

SIR: Your letter of the 15th instant, in which you make the request that I will forward to you such arms as may be at my disposal for defense of our northern frontier, has been handed to me by Colonel Hunt and Captain Buckner.