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LOUDON, TENN., July 22, 1864- 1. 40 p. m.
(Received 2 p. m.)
Captain W. P. AMMEN,
Assistant Adjutant- General:
Dispatch just received, dated 10 a. m. thirteen miles from here, reports 100 rebels at Provost- Marshal Devine's last night; states their force in that neighborhood to be 300 or 400. I shall start a force of 115 men, under Captain Devine, at once, with three days' rations. Am I right in doing so! Please answer.
M. L. PATTERSON,
Lieutenant- Colonel, Commanding.
LEXINGTON, KY., July 22, 1864.
Brigadier General HUGH EWING,
Munfordville, Ky.:
Hurry forward the mounting of the Twenty- sixth and the Forty- eighth Kentucky, and send them to clear out the country WEST of the country WEST of the railroad. Send Captain Page 's company, of the twenty- sixth, to Russellville, to remain there temporarily. The evidence in Goulder's case is positive; the execution of his sentence, "to be shot to death," to be at once carried out.
By order of Brevet Major- General Burbridge:
J. BATES DICKSON,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant- General.
LEXINGTON, KY., July 22, 1864.
Colonel CLARK,
Paris, Ky.:
Lookout at your bridges, and keep your guards on alert. Mose Webster was eleven miles from Georgetown at 12 to- day.
By order of Brigadier- General McLean:
J. S. BUTLER,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
LEXINGTON, KY., July 22, 1864.
Colonel S. B. BROWN:
FIFTY rebels were near Georgetown at noon. Send thirty men between Paris and Georgetown to hunt them. Tell the officer he must find and whip them.
By order of Brigadier-General McLean:
J. S. BUTLER,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
HEADQUARTERS RIGHT WING, SIXTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
La Grange, Tenn., July 22, 1864.Colonel D. MOORE,
Commanding THIRD DIVISION, SIXTEENTH Army Corps:
COLONEL: The major-general commanding directs that as the First DIVISION troops are transported to Memphis, you will immediately commence moving your command by rail to Memphis. The camp and
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