Col. James E. Rains
will march at 4 o'clock to-morrow morning, via Barboursville, to Laurel Bridge,
on the London road, with his regiment, provisioned for six days, three rations
of which should be cooked, leaving his tents in this encampment. Colonel
McNairy's command will accompany him or follow him, by a right-hand road
crossing Laurel Creek about 2 miles above the bridge. Colonel R. will have
command, and will dislodge a supposed force of the enemy at the bridge by
attacking simultaneously with infantry and cavalry at both ends of the bridge.
He will be furnished a guide who will give him information of some arms, which
he will capture, if practicable. He will take with him also Lieutenant
Falcond's section of artillery. A battalion of Colonel Statham’s infantry, with
three companies of Colonel Branner's cavalry, will be posted on the road to be
pursued by Colonel McNairy about 10 miles back, to give support, if necessary.
Simultaneously. Colonel Cummings' regiment, with two companies of Colonel
Broydton's [Brazelton's?] cavalry, will escort a train of wagons to the Goose
Creek Salt Works, 16 or 18 miles east, in Clay County, to load with salt. The
different detachments will communicate by express messengers with each other
and with me, and when the salt train returns all will return to this
encampment. Much is trusted to Colonel Rains' discretion in whatever may
transpire on the way.
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Monday, May 30, 2022
Brigadier-General Felix K. Zolicoffer, September 25, 1861
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,
Camp Buckner, September 25, 1861.
F. K. ZOLLICOFFER,
Brigadier-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. 292
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