Ambrose E. Burnside to William S. Rosecrans, August 13, 1863

Major-General ROSECRANS :

Shall endeavor to start Saturday [15th,] moving a brigade of cavalry from Glasgow, a division of infantry from Danville, and two brigades of cavalry from Stanford. I already have one brigade of cavalry at Somerset.

We shall go into Hast Tennessee with the understanding that we are to live on the country, and as the entire command will not be over 14,000 Beene, we shall valué very much your assistance and co-operation and hold ourselves in readiness to co-operate with you in every possible way. Our destination will be as you suggest, and the time necessary for the march will be about what I have already notified you.

A. E. BURNSIDE, Major-General.

GENERAL FIELD ORDERS, ) Hpgrs. ARMY OF THE Ohio, In the Field, Camp Nelson, Ky., No. 1. August 138, 1863.

I. The negro laborers impressed for service on the public works will be disposed of by Brigadier-General Boyle, according to his judgment and discretion, and in pursuance of such orders as may be issued from these headquarters. All such laborers will be subsisted as other laborers in the service, and commissaries of subsistence and quartermasters will issue supplies according to orders of Brigadier-General Boyle, and certified vouchers will be issued for value of labor according to his orders. Brigadier-General Boyle is charged with the control of all laborers on public works, and will execute same according to directions from these headquarters, and he is authorized to employ citizens to superintend the said laborers, and order quartermasters to pay same monthly.

Ii. Brigadier-General Boyle is ordered to take the right of way for roads and other grounds for the use of the Government and all timber required in construction of roads and other public works.

III. The First Division of the Twenty-third Army Corps, assigned to the command of Brigadier-General Boyle by general orders from headquarters Twenty-third Army Corps, embraces all troops recently recruited, and not assigned to other divisions by the above order, or not included in the reorganization of the Ninth Army cone Troops acting as provost-guards, throughout, will be temporarily attached to this division.

By order of Major-General Burnside :