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CHAP.XII.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-CONFEDERATE.

my own honor, is dearer to me than country of life itself. The hope of being able to make an early movement has lured me; that hope dissipated, common decency requires me to leave this command. Besides, to stay here and labor and toil as I do, struggling with disease and death, to be superseded presently, or, if continued, to be a mere interloped, a nondescript, every impulse of my nature says, "No; death first." Ny command will companion, but this will soon be hushed, for now they are bound. I shall leave with them my son, a captain of a company, as hostage that my heart is with them.

In conclusion, I thank you most sincerely for kind manner in which you have treated me since my return to my native heath, and beg that you will have some one to take my command, if not before, on the day indicated. Do not neglect this, I beg you.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. L. ALCORN, Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Abstract from of force stationed in the vicinity of Bowling Green, Ky., October 19, 1861.

Present for duty.

Infantry. Cavalry. Artillery.

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battery. Â³ Â³ Â³ Â³ Â³ Â³ Â³ Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã…Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã…Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã…Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã…Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã…Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã…Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã…Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„Ã„ Total. Â³ 490 Â³ 6,991 Â³ Â³ 228 Â³2 Â³77 Â³9,956

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HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,

Bowling Green, Ky., October 20, 1861.

General ZOLLICOFER:

GENERAL: Your dispatches of September 26 and two of September 24 were received last night. I have the honor to inform you that every effort to secure for you a competent engineer has thus far failed.

The last and best information we have of the enemy in front of you was received from a gentleman who arrived yesterday. it is this, that Camp Dick Robinson contains 10,000 men, 4,000 of them being advanced towards Cumberland Gap, but to what distance our informant could not tell. This advance is under Garrard. He was satisfied that in addition to these troops, there were 10,000 of the enemy dotted from point to point on the line from Camp Dick Robinson to Cincinnati. Colonels Stanton and Murray are ordered and supposed to be angered dispersing a Union force at Tompkinsville, Burkesville, and along that point.

I am, general, very respectfully,

W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General.

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