Monday, December 4, 2017

Brigadier-General John A. Rawlins to Major-General William T. Sherman, September 22, 1863

VICKSBURG,           
September 22, 1863.
Maj. Gen. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN,
Commanding Fifteenth Army Corps:

GENERAL: The following dispatch is just received:


WASHINGTON CITY, September 15, [1863] — 5 p.m.           
(Received 4 p.m., 18th.)
Maj. Gen. STEPHEN A. HURLBUT,
Memphis:

All the troops that can possibly be spared in Western Tennessee and on the Mississippi River should be sent without delay to assist General Rosecrans on the Tennessee River. Urge Sherman to act with all possible promptness. If you have boats, send them down to bring up his troops. Information just received indicates that a part of Lee's army has been sent to re-enforce Bragg.

H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief.


Please order at once one division of your army corps to proceed to re-enforce Rosecrans moving from here by brigades as fast as transportation can be had. Orders have been given to detain all steamers available for such purpose. McPherson will send one division.

By order of Major-General Grant:
JNO. A. RAWLINS,
Brigadier-General, and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 30, Part 1 (Serial No. 50), p. 161-2

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