OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [Chap.XII.

SEPTEMBER 23, 1861.

General ALCORN:

Cosby is on the Bowling Green and Greenville road, about 1 mile west of the point of crossing of the direct Russellville and Rochester road. I wish you to effect a junction with him to-morrow night at that point, with about 1,000 men. Start early, and have 100 of your men to escort the artillery I will send in the morning. Leave a guide for them. I will join you before night via Russellville. Take all the rations and ammunition your wagons will carry.

S. B. BUCKNER.

HEADQUARTERS CENTRAL DIVISION OF KENTUCKY, Bowling Green, Ky., September 23, 1861.

Major GEORGE B. COSBY:

SIR: General Buckner has arranged to re-enforce you with a large force of infantry and artillery. He expects to accompany them. They will move from Russellville with the purpose of effecting a junction with you to-morrow evening. They will move along the direct road from Russellville to Rochester. General Buckner will send to-morrow what supplies he can. Cooking utensils are difficult to get. Unless you find it advisable to advance, you can wait for a junction to be effected. Send couriers back to advise General Buckner.

Yours, truly,

ALEXANDER CASSEDAY, Assistant Adjutant-General.

CAMP BUCKNER, September 24, 1861.

Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General, Nashville, Tenn.:

SIR: I intended making a movement to-morrow, but upon inquiry find that there is not twenty-four hours' supply of bread in the command. I have been here five days, supposing my supplies were accumulating, but there being as yet no other administrative officers furnished my brigade but a commissary, that officer has had to furnish transportation for subsistence and ammunition, and has thus been disabled from keeping up the supplies. A quartermaster has been recently appointed, but has yet no funds furnished. I have no ordnance officer. I hope soon, however, to be better provided.

Very respectfully, F. K. ZOLLICOFFER, Brigadier-General.

CAMP BUCKNER (CUMBERLAND FORD), September 24, 1861.

Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General, Nashville, Tenn.:

SIR: As soon as I can obtain requisite supplies I think I should move forward toward Camp Robertson [Dick Robinson], making a junction with Colonel Stanton's rifle regiment (now I suppose encamped near the line between Overton and Fentress, Tenn.), at or near Somerset or London, Ky. It is probable our best defense of East Tennessee is