Adjutant and Inspector-General, Richmond, Va.:
SIR: Two regiments
cross the river to-day at Mill Springs to endeavor to cut off 800 of the enemy
at Waitsborough, 9 miles above. A mail from Columbia to Monticello has been
captured, by which we learn that there are two battalions of cavalry and two
regiments of infantry at Columbia. They had heard of my advance and heard my
force was 9,000. This they doubt, but think if it is true they will have to
retreat for want of numbers. I learn that General Thomas is at Crab Orchard, but
have no reliable intelligence of forces other than those at Columbia and
Waitsborough. I have sent detachments of cavalry to examine the ferries at
Burkesville and Creelsborough, 17 miles above Burkesville; also to get more
particular information of the ferries and roads crossing at Dorothea Landing
and Horse Shoe Bottom. It is now certain there is no enemy this side of the
Cumberland. We have here an abundance of beef, pork, and corn, at low prices.
The better classes of citizens sympathize with us.
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