[CHAP.XII. OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE.

unorganized battalion of five companies, and two other regiments he expected here in the course of the next week. Those four regiments have much own back but measles and other camp diseases, but only a few of the men have died, and the companies are being rapidly filled up again. The whole, save the unorganized, are quite well exercised in battalion movements, although deficient in the manual by reason of the want of guns. With the arrival of the two additional regiments mentioned, exercised of the line will be immediately forwarded. With regard to requisitions for clothing he wishes to say, that in the requisitions made he limited himself, according to his judgment, to the absolute wants of his men, and deeply regrets the inability of Quartermaster Stevenson to supply hid demand. He will, however, act upon the suggestion contained in the concluding paragraph of your letter, and cause his company officers to examine into the condition of their, men asking for clothing, and to compare that condition with the state of clothing in the company and to supply those most in want.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN TYLER, JR., Assistant Adjutant-General.

RICHMOND, October 26, 1861.

Brigadier General W. H. CARROLL:

GENERAL: The Secretary of War directs that with the three regiments recently organized by you in East Tennessee you proceed with all possible dispatch, via Cumberland Gap, to join Brigadier-General Zollicoffer, now at London, Laurel Country Kentucky. The regiments referred to are now known as the First, Second, and Third East Tennessee Rifles, but will be known to the Department as the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Tennessee Provisional Regiments.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General.

BOWLING GREEN, KY., October 26, 1861.

To His Excellency ISHAM G. HARRIS, Governor of Tennessee:

DEAR SIR: I have the pleasure to introduce to you Major J. F. Gilmer, C. S. Corps of Engineers, whom I have ordered to Nashville, to examine the country below Nashville, in the vicinity, for the purpose of determine upon the most eligible sites for the erection of such works as will completely defend the city from all approaches of the enemy by means of the river. I ask the interposition of your aid and influence to enable him best to accomplish the object of his visit. Should it be though necessary, after the examination, to erect the works, it can be quickly done by means of slave labor, which I presume there would be no difficulty in obtaining.

With great respect, your obedient servant,

A. S. JOHNSTON.

MEMPHIS, October 26, 1861.

ROBERT JOSSELYN, Esq.:

DEAR SIR: On my return from Nashville last night I received your letter of 11th instant. The prisoners alluded to were Jarvis, Thornburg,