HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE,
Fort Donelson, February 24, 1862.
General NELSON,
Commanding Division, Department of the Ohio:
GENERAL: You will
proceed with the division under your command to Nashville, Tenn., keeping in
rear of the gunboat Carondelet with all your transports.
From Nashville you
will put yourself in immediate communication with General Buell, and if you
find that his command is not within two days' march of you, your command will
not debark, but fall back down the river some miles on the transports, and
remain to form a junction with General Buell when he does arrive.
I am, general, very respectfully, your
obedient servant,
U.S. GRANT,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
7 (Serial No. 7), p. 662-3
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