SIR: I am 10 miles
on the march toward a camp of the enemy on Rock-castle River, having left
Cumberland Ford this evening with the greater part of my command. I learned
that the enemy at Albany has retired. My plan has been to fall in their rear
and cut them off. Now that Colonel Stanton and our cavalry have left the
neighborhood of Jamestown, the enemy may return in force near the line. I have
ordered stores of subsistence for my troops to be placed at Jamestown by the
25th instant, and have ordered the same cavalry companies to return to that
neighborhood almost the same time, to prevent the enemy from seizing and
appropriating the stores. Perhaps the cavalry from above would not be
sufficient to prevent an incursion. I expect to pass down by Somerset and Monticello
or by Columbia and Burkesville, in the hope of capturing any forces they may be
threatening your position with. As secrecy is the element of success, I must
beg of you not to mention to any solitary person this enterprise. My object in
writing to you is to ask you, about the 25th, to move in such a way as to
insure, by the aid of the cavalry, the safety of the stores, until I can reach
the neighborhood. Inform General Caswell at Knoxville what you can do, and he
will communicate with me.
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Monday, August 1, 2022
Brigadier-General Felix K. Zollicoffer to Colonel John P. Murray, October 16, 1861
BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS,
Camp Ten Mile, Ky., October 16, 1861.
Colonel MURRAY, Camp Myers:
Very respectfully,
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. 212
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