EXHIBIT L.

[See Series I, Vol. X, Part I, pp.57-64.]

Telegram from the Secretary of War.

WASHINGTON, June 22, 1862.

Brigadier-General MORGAN:

This Department has been highly gratified with your successful occupation of Cumberland Gap, and commends the gallant conduct and labors of your officers and troops, to whom you will express the thanks of the President and this Department. Cumberland Gap is regarded as a strategic point of great importance, which, unless you have orders from your commanding officer, this Department will consider you well employed in holding and strengthening that position so that the enemy can by no chance recover his position. I have been striving ever since receiving the intelligence of your success to aid and send you a skillful officer of the Engineer Department to place and construct the necessary works. That has delayed my communication to you. The great demand in this quarter has absorbed the whole engineer force, but tomorrow I hope to send you an officer highly recommend by General Totten for his professional skill. It is out of the power of this Department to supply you at present with any cavalry for offensive operations, and as your force for some time can be advantageously employed defensively in its present position, I trust you will not need it.

With thanks for you diligence and activity, I remain, yours, truly,

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

EXHIBIT M.

GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,

No. 29. In Camp, Huntsville, Ala., July 11, 1862.

The general commanding the Army of the Ohio takes pleasure in announcing the success of an arduous and hazardous campaign by the Seventh Division, Brig. Gen. G. W. Morgan commanding, by which the enemy's fortified position at Cumberland Gap was turned and his force compelled to retreat as our troops advanced to attack.

The general thanks Brigadier-General Morgan and the troops of the Seventh Division for the ability displayed in the operations against this important stronghold, and for the energy, fortitude, and cheerfulness which they exhibited in their struggles with difficulties of the most formidable magnitude for an army.

By command of Major-General Buell:

JAMES B. FRY,

Colonel and Chief of Staff.

EXHIBIT N.

HDQRS. SEVENTH DIVISION, ARMY OF THE OHIO, Rogers' Gap, Tenn., June 16, 1862.

Maj. Gen. D. C. BUELL, Booneville:

My division is concentrated. I have reliable information that Barton and Kirby Smith, with all their available forces, are marching to attack me.

If possible have a serious feint made on Chattanooga.

GEORGE W. MORGAN,
Brigadier-General Volunteers, Commanding.