OPERATION SIN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.

assent to the terms stated in the accompanying paper, which you will exhibit to them. If he or they are not present, send for them, deliver it to them. If they do not appear, or being present refuse to receive the same, you will lock up the building and place a guard over it. After your demand of the cashier, do not permit him or any other person in the bank to have access to any book, vault, safe, drawer, or paper; and, upon securing the surrender, you will cause the cashier and all others employed with him therein to leave to building, except the president and directors above names, if they be present.

The officer having executed this order will report to you the fact and manner of its execution.

By command of General Johnston:

W. W. MACKALL, Assistant Adjutant-General.

It has been deemed proper by General Johnston to withdraw the management of the Branch of the Bank of Kentucky at this place from Mr. Calvert, the cashier, and to remove him and others employed with him entirely from any participation in it. Being desirous to project the interest of depositors, bill and stock holders in the bank, he desires you to take charge upon the following conditions: 1st. That a careful inventory be made of the deposits in the bank, discriminating between those strictly private and those in the name of the State of Kentucky, or nay other State, or any agent of them, or officer acting under their authority, to be returned to him.

2nd. That the specie on hand be counted, and as well as the bills of other banks.

3rd. That specie payment of the bills of said bank or any other bank be suspended.

BOWLING GREEN, KY., November 13, 1861.

We, the undersigned, directors of the Branch Bank of Kentucky at Bowling Green, hereby assent to the within terms, and agree to receive the keys of the building, vaults, &c., now delivered to the president, Mr. James Hines, by Major T. B. Munro, jr., upon the conditions herein prescribed.

JAMES HINES, President.

J. VANNUTER. [VANMETER.] J. K. McGOODWIN.

T. B. WRIGHT.

Q. S. BAKKER.

NASHVILLE, TENN., November 13, 1861.

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

COLONEL: During my stay at Clarsville, from evening of 9th instant to morning of the 11th, I decided upon the position for a battery of three 32-pounders to command the river approach to that town; also as to the position for a small field work to hold the high ground commanding the road leading across the Hopkinsville bridge. Mr. Sayers, civil engineer, is now engaged in laying out the works and employing laborers for their construction. At Clarsville I also employed a complement person to establish a timber obstruction in the Cumberland River under range of the guns of Fort Donelson.

Monday, the 11th instant, at 12 o'clock, I arrived at this place, and