Letter

Arthur OC. Ducat to Beat Hdqrs. Fourteenth Army Corps, November 7, 1862

November 7, 1862.

No. 7. Bowling Green, Ky., November 7, 1862.

Capt. Elmer Otis, Fourth Cavalry, U.S. Army, is announced as chief of courier lines. All such lines will be under his general direction, and bis orders in reference to them are to be obeyed and respected. Commanders of corps, divisions, brigades, and detachments will immediately cause all non-commissioned officers and privates of cavalry who are mounted, but have no arms (except orderlies), to report at once to him at these headquarters, to be used in forming courier lines for carrying dispatches in a safe country. By this means effective cavalry, now performing this duty, may be sent to the front.

By command of Major-General Rosecrans :

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Ohief of Staff.
GENERAL beat HDQRS. FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
24 KY., MID. AND E. TENN., N. ALA., AND SW. VA. (Cuar. XXXU
LOUISVILLE, KyY.,
November 7, 1862—6.30 p. m.
Col. A. STAGER:
Two divisions of MeCook’s corps are at Edgefield Junction to-night.

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Middle and East Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, Pt. 1. Summary: Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur O.C. Ducat announces Captain Elmer Otis as chief of courier lines, directing unarmed mounted cavalry to report for dispatch duties to free effective cavalry for frontline service.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 20, Part 1 View original source ↗