OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.
armed for the defense of those points, respectively; to be turned, however, to your department so soon as they can be permanently armed.
L. P. WALKER, Brigadier-General.
While dispatching the above I received yours of this date. I have not armed troops.
BOWLING GREEN, November 5, 1861.
Brigadier-General WALKER, Hunstville, Ala.: Your telegram of the 4th received. Send you unarmed men to General Bragg. Your armed men must move, as General Johnston has before-ordered, to General Zollicoffer. He cannot spare them. Telegraph these instructions to the War Department.
W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General.
KNOXVILLE, November 5, 1861.
General S. COOPER, Adjutant-General:
Reliable information received that the enemy in large force is at the Tennessee line, moving on Jacksborough. Re-enforcements should be sent to this point immediately.
W. B. WOOD, Colonel, Commanding.
CUMBERLAND GAP, November 5, 1861.
Information through prisoners captured that enemy-8,000-are near London, fortifying against apprehended attack.
F. K. ZOLLICOFFER.
CUMBERLAND GAP, November 5, 1861.
Lieutenant-Colonel MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General, Bowling Green, Ky.:
SIR: I have no recent information of the enemy. Examinations of the mountains east and west of this gap for miles disclose various footpaths, requiring obstructions and sentinels in case an enemy should attempt to throw light infantry over them. Having put in train every means of defense which occur to me, and left Colonel James E. Rains in command of the post, with his regiment, that of Colonel Churchwell, and a battalion of the Sixteenth Alabama Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Harris, with seven cavalry companies to watch the road to Barboursville, Manchester, and Harlan Court-House, I will to-morrow morning proceed to Jacksborough and look to the necessary work at the gaps near there. Four regiments are in that neighborhood, and one at Wilson's Gap, 20 miles this side. Four cavalry companies are scouting back on the roads into Kentucky from Jacksborough. The 6-pounder battery of eight guns (inclusive of the two Parrott guns) has been sent to Jacksborough, to be ready in case the enemy should advance on that road with artillery. In the event of approach in this direction, we have guns enough in fixed battery here to hold the enemy in check until the Parrott guns can be brought up and put in position.
