Aug. Mersy to True, August 18, 1863
Colonel TRUE: Move your brigade down as soon as youcan. Either march the whole force or send the La Grange regiment by rail, as you prefer. March at 3 a. m., so as to make your day’s work before noon. Keep the most rigorous discipline on the march, and bring every effective man. Notify me when you will be here. S. A. HURLBUT, Major-General. P. S.—The general says you may retain Vaughn’s battery if it can make a long march in order. H. BINMORE, Assistant Adjutant-General. Hpgrs. THIRD Bric., THIRD Div., 16TH ARMY CORPS, La Grange, Tenn., August 18, 1863. Sir: In compliance with orders just received from headquarters Sixteenth Army Corps, I have ordered the Sixty-second Illinois Infantry to march at 5 a. m. to-morrow. J have the honor to ask that you will give directions that the pickets of that regiment be relieved at about 3 o’clock, that they may return to their camp for knapsacks, &c. The One hundred and eighth Illinois has been ordered to relieve the prison guard at the usual hour, when they will follow by train. JAMES M. TRUE, Colonel, Commanding Brigade. CoRINTH, August 18, 1863. Major-General HURLBUT: The First Brigade will move by rail to La Grange to-night. Colonel True has been ordered to march immediately upon being relieved.
AUG. MERSY,