GENERAL: In
compliance with your instructions I have moved my command forward, and now
occupy a position about 3 miles north of London, at the junction of the Crab
Orchard and Richmond roads.
I have in camp
the Fourteenth and Seventeenth Ohio and Thirty-third Indiana and two batteries
(Standart's and Kenny's).
I have sent
Colonel Garrard's Kentucky and the First Tennessee ahead to occupy London or
some convenient point adjacent. The Second Tennessee will be up to-night.
Please advise me
of the location, strength, &c., of the several columns of our forces now in
Kentucky. I am feeling my way somewhat in the dark, and would like to be kept
posted up with reference to the movements of both friends and enemies. I
reconnoitered this morning a few miles beyond London to find a better camping
ground, but found no position as good as my present, I can here obtain wood,
water, forage, and some provisions, which is more than I can do on the other
side of London, except by hauling a long distance.
It is reported
that Buckner has advanced upon Greensburg. Is it so? A Mr. Burnsides reports
himself as beef contractor, but has no documents to show the fact. I understood
you to say that he had contracted. Did I rightly understand you?
SOURCE: The
War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 4 (Serial No. 4), p. 322-3
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