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CULPEPER COURT-HOUSE, VA., April 16, 1864-10.30 a. m. (Received 8.25 a. m., 17th.)
Major General W. S. ROSECRANS,
Saint Louis, Mo.:
Send the Twelfth Missouri, Ninth Iowa, and Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry to Cairo without delay. You may replace as many of them as you may require about Saint Louis from other parts of your command.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
CULPEPER COURT-HOUSE, VA., April 16, 1864-2 p. m. (Received 5.30 p. m.)
Major General W. S. ROSECRANS,
Saint Louis, Mo.:
Send at once all the force you can to Cairo to report to the commanding officer there to be used against Forrest. Send either cavalry or infantry. Take that nearest the river and replace what you send away by troops from the interior. Answer what you can do.
U. S. GRANT,
Lieutenant-General.
HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Nashville, Tenn., April 16, 1864.General ROSECRANS,
Saint Louis:Steps were taken to drive Forrest to the wall, but failed by the timidity of our officers at Memphis. There are assembling at Cairo two divisions of McPherson, which will prevent any such movement as you speak of. The whole object of Forrest's movement is to prevent the concentration going on here as against Georgia. You in Missouri must counteract the machinations of the scattered guerrillas.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF CAIRO, Cairo, Ill., April 16, 1864.Major General W. S. ROSECRANS,
Commanding Department of the Missouri:SIR: Excuse my neglect of the matter of your communication by telegraph dated the 12th. The pressure of immediate duties has prevented earlier attention. I inclose a copy of General Hurlbut's letter of instructions (A); also copy of my order issued thereon, Numbers 15 (B); also copy of General Hurlbut's supplemental letter (C); also copy of my supplemental Orders, Numbers 21 (D); also my Orders, Numbers 16 (E) on a kindred subject; also my letter of April 2, showing the necessity of these orders (F).* That necessity has been tenfold more
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*For inclosure marked B, E, and F, see Vol. XXXII, Part III, pp. 233, 234, and 232, respectively.
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