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, 1862â6.30 p. m.
Col. A. STAGER:
Two divisions of MeCookâs corps are at Edgefield Junction to-night.