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[First indorsement.]
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
East Point, Ga., September 20, 1864.Respectfully forwarded.
I am aware that measures have been already taken to make block- houses and relieve a part of our forces. But I call especial attention to General Logan's representations. This army has between Atlanta and Dalton over 8,000 men on the railroad.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
[Second indorsement.]
HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Atlanta, Ga., September 20, 1864.General Thomas has on the railroad to our rear more than five times the detachments of the Army of the Tennessee.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.
[THIRD indorsement.]
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Kolb's Farm, Ga., October 5, 1864.Respectfully returned to Major General John A. Logan, and his attention invited to indorsement of Major-General Sherman.
By order of Major General O. O. Howard:
SAML. L. TAGGART,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,
September 20, 1864.Major-General SHERMAN:
General Kilpatrick reports a large force of the enemy's cavalry at Campbellton to-day. A large force of the enemy's infantry lately moved to Fayetteville. This he deems reliable. He says informant says it's Stewart's corps. Kilpatrick expects to be attacked at daylight in the morning on the right.
O. O. HOWARD,
Major-General.
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
East Point, Ga., September 20, 1864.Brigadier General T. E. G. RANSOM,
Commanding Left Wing, SIXTEENTH Army Corps:
GENERAL: The following dispatch has just been received from Major-General Sherman:
ATLANTA, September 20, 1864.
General HOWARD:
General Thomas will send two of Garrard's brigades to Kilpatrick, and order him to feel well down toward Fayetteville and Lovejoy's; support him, if necessary, only as far as is consistent with the truce and to discover what Hood is about. I will have spies to- night at Macon to watch way he goes. I think he will move back to Macon and send some men to Richmond.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General.
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