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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