[OCTOBER 28, 1863.]

General LAW:

Your left seems to be very well protected, only a rear guard of a few hundred on your left.

JENKINS,

General.

[31.]

LOOKOUT VALLEY, October 28, 1863.

General JENKINS:

Where is General Anderson's brigade?

LAW,

General.

[31.]

[OCTOBER 28, 1863.

General LAW:

General Anderson's brigade is near Summertown, a few miles beyond on the mountain.

R. M. SIMS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[31.]

HEADQUARTERS LONGSTREET'S CORPS,
October 28, 1863-10 p. m.

Brigadier General J. B. KERSHAW,

Commanding Division:

The lieutenant-general commanding directs that you move your division over as a support to Major-General Walker, who is now where Hood's division has bee, between Chattanooga Creek and Lookout Mountain. You should move at once so as to get over to-night.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. M. SORREL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[31.]

ATLANTA, GA., October 29, 1863.

General B. BRAGG,

Mission Ridge, Tenn.:

We have rumors of active operations in your front. I leave to-morrow at noon for Savannah, via Macon. Please send information.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

[31.]

ATLANTA, GA., October 29, 1863.

General B. BRAGG,

Near Chattanooga, Tenn.:

GENERAL: I have received your letter of the 22nd instant covering copies of your correspondence with General Buckner, and have read the inclosures with painful embarrassment.* The case seems to me a very plain one, and may be likened to that of an officer who had been assigned to the command of a post, and subsequently ordered by competent authority to take the field with the garrison he commanded. It

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*Letter and inclosures not found, but see correspondence, between Bragg and Buckner, VOL. XXXI, Part III.

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