all articles you may require and which they may have on hand, including horses, arms, and accouterments and equipments, deemed by you necessary to fit out you command. The enemy is reported in force at Blain's Cross-Roads. General Thomas desires that you use the utmost dispatch in your movements.

GEO. STONEMAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY,
Lexington, Ky., November 18, 1864.

THOMAS E. BRAMLETTE,

Governor of Kentucky:

SIR: In reply to your communication of the 14th instant, I can only reassert the contents of my former letters and telegrams. I beg leave to decline any further controversy with you, as I do not believe that the good of the country or your interest or mine require that I should discuss the issues which you seek to make with me.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. G. BURBRIDGE,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.

BURKESVILLE, November 18, 1864.

Captain J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Your order received last night. It has now been raining constantly for thirty-six hours. It is impossible to move men from here or Glasgow until the water gets down.

J. W. WEATHERFORD,

Colonel Thirteenth Kentucky Cavalry.

BURKESVILLE, November 18, 1864.

Captain J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

I have ordered troops from Glasgow to Lebanon. Have just received dispatch from Glasgow saying waters are up so they cannot reach Lebanon before Sunday. I am surrounded by water; river very high. What about the bridge, grain, and stores I have here? Answer.

J. W. WEATHERFORD,

Colonel Thirteenth Kentucky Cavalry.

LEXINGTON, November 18, 1864.

Colonel J. W. WEATHERFORD,

Burkesville, Ky.:

You must move your effective force if you have service[able] horses. Leave a small guard with convalescents, and baggage, and pontoon bridge. Press horses to mount dismounted men, and give receipts to be taken up by quartermaster here at future time.

By order of Brigadier-General McLean:

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.