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Colonel Watkins' regiment is armed and ready for service, it will be ordered to report to you for duty.
I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. H. TAYLOR,
Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.,
June 7, 1862
Brigadier General S. M. BARTON,
Commanding Fourth Brigade:
GENERAL: Telegraphic dispatches from General Leadbetter give the assurance that the enemy will attack Chattanooga in force. The major-general wishes that his repulse shall be prompt and decisive, and therefore directs that you push forward your brigade to the terminus of the Kentucky Railroad. You will send forward a courier, giving information in advance of your arrival, that transportation at that point may be ready to take your command to Chattanooga. You will leave the smallest detachment (a regiment or battalion) of your command at Clinton, which, with a cavalry force, will be sufficient to watch the approaches from that quarter.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
H. L. CLAY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.,
June 7, 1862
Major-General E. KIRBY SMITH,
Chattanooga, Tenn.:
General Barton dispatches that he will be in Clinton at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow. He has been instructed to push forward with his brigade to the terminus of the Kentucky Railroad. where transportation will be ready to take his command to Chattanooga.
H. L. CLAY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
KNOXVILLE, TENN.,
June 7, 1862
Brigadier General C. L. STEVENSON,
Commanding, &c., Cumberland Gap:
GENERAL: From information received there seems to be no doubt that the enemy contemplate an attack in large force upon Chattanooga, and probably the invasion of East Tennessee, via Kingston, by column from the direction of McMinnville. Colonel Reynolds' brigade has already passed this place en route to Chattanooga, wither the major-general commanding went this afternoon. Brigadier-General Barton has been ordered with his brigade from Powell's Valley to the terminus of the Kentucky Railroad, 10 miles from Clinton, with the view of following his (Colonel Reynolds') command.
I am directed, in communicating this intelligence to you, to say that
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