Monday, August 22, 2022

Samuel Cooper to Brigadier-General William H. Carroll, October 26, 1861

RICHMOND, October 26, 1861.
Brig. Gen. W. H. CARROLL:

GENERAL: The Secretary of War directs that with the throe regiments recently organized by you in East Tennessee you proceed with all possible dispatch, via Cumberland Gap, to join Brigadier-General Zollicoffer, now at London, Laurel County, Kentucky. The regiments referred to are now known as the First, Second, and Third East Tennessee Rifles, but will be known to the Department as the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Tennessee Provisional Regiments.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. COOPER,        
Adjutant and Inspector General.

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. 476

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