[CHAP. XXVIII.

LOUISVILLE, July 13, 1862.

Have telegraphed General Buell in person at Huntsville and his adjutant-general at Nashville of Morgan's raid and the extent of it. I advised the Governors of Indiana and Ohio. Morgan was not attacked by our men as expected, because they were all mounted and well mounted and ours were infantry. He eluded them and passed on to Lebanon, and has passed from there to Danville and Harrodsburg, in the direction of Lexington and Frankfurt. His force is variously estimated from 1,500 to 3,000 men. He is reported as having three pieces of artillery. A considerable portion of the force I have been using I have taken from the convalescents at hospitals. The forces that I have at my command are stationed along the Nashville road to prevent destruction of brigades and track, over which road all the supplies go for the army in Southern Tennessee. There is a small force at Paducah and Henderson. I called on the Governors of Ohio and Indiana in pursuance of your orders heretofore given. Did not advise the War Department except in the general dispatch, believing that the report to the headquarters of the Army of the Ohio at Nashville and to the call upon the Governors of Ohio and Indiana would secure the necessary re-enforcements. I have received on reply from the headquarters at Nashville, but have had one regiment sent up the road from Nashville, enabling me to move a portion of the troops already there to other points threatened by Morgan. I do not believe that Morgan's force exceeds from 800 to 1,200 men, with one to three pieces of artillery.

J. T. BOYLE,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

July 13, 1862.

Major-General HALLECK, Corinth, Miss:

They are having a stampede in Kentucky. Please look to it.

A. LINCOLN.

CORINTH, MISS., July 13, 1862.

General Buell thinks that the measures he has taken will destroy Morgan's expedition into Tennessee and Kentucky. He reports that he finds the forces of General Mitchel in an utter state of disorganization.

H. W. HALLECK.

Honorable E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

WASHINGTON, July 13, 1862.

General J. T. BOYLE, Louisville, Ky.:

Your several dispatches received. You should call on General Halleck. Telegraph him at once. I have telegraphed him that you are in trouble.

A. LINCOLN.