CAIRO, ILL.,
February 7, 1862.
Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT,
Comdg. U.S. Forces on Tennessee
and Cumberland Rivers:
By direction of Major-General Halleck I am here with his
authority to give any necessary orders in his name to facilitate your very
important operations. Do you want any more cavalry? If so, General Halleck can
send you a regiment from Saint Louis. I have directed General Paine to send
you, as soon as transportation can be provided, the Thirty-second and
Forty-ninth Illinois and Twenty-fifth Indiana. The Fifty-seventh Illinois will
be here on Wednesday, en route to join you. Several regiments are about
moving from Saint Louis to add to your forces. Please ask Lieutenant-Colonel
McPherson whether he wants intrenching tools or anything else I can supply.
G. W. CULLUM,
Brig. Gen. Vols., U.
S. Army, Chief of Staff.
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. 594
