Be aah he D GEO. H. THOMAS to . Camp Calvert, November 3, 1861

Crab. Orchard, November 3, 1861.

Brig. Gen. W. T. SHERMAN, e^ Commanding Department of Cumberland, Lowisville, Ky. :

GENERAL: Brigadier-General Schoepf has just written me that the supply of forage in Laurel County will be exhausted in twenty days, and that the inhabitants are very much dissatisfied that they do not receive the money down for what has been purchased from them. _

It is reported that an abundance of corn can be bought in Madison, and that the road from Richmond to London is practicable all winter. I will send an officer in a few days to make an examination of the road and report its exact condition. I would be glad to know whether we are to make preparations for a winter campaign or go into winter quarters.

For a winter campaign we shall need more wagons, and ought to have a supply of Sibley tents; but the latter can be dispensed with to a great

*Reports of Captains Adams and Standart not found.

extent if we can get wagons. Isend you Capt. A. J. Mackay, brigade quartermaster, who can explain to you fully the embarrassments we labor under in this poor country, and I would be obliged if he can be furnished with funds to pay all small bills against the department, as being able to do so will give confidence to the people, and enable us to get forage, &c., much more easily than by the present method of giving certified accounts of purchases. This is a poor region of country. If we are compelled to winter here, nearly if not all of our supplies will have to be brought.from a distance. ` : ;

General Schoepf has found it necessary to appoint his assistant adjutant-general, Capt. T. S. Everett, chief of the quartermaster and commissary departments for the troops at London, as he could find no one else who has any knowledge of the duties of those departments. I have also to ask that you will direct Colonel Swords and Captain Symonds to furnish Captain Everett with sufficient funds to pay all small bills against these departments contracted by him or any of his subordinates.

very respectfully, your obedient servant.

Be aah he D GEO. H. THOMAS,
Brigadier- General, U. S. Volunteers.
. CAMP CALVERT,
London, Ky., November 3, 1861. (Receiyed November 5.)
. Brigadier-General THOMAS, y
Commanding, &e., Crab Orchard :
GENERAL: Yours of the 2d is received. Captain Adams has arrived
and Captain Everett has turned over to him the duties of the subsistence department. Captain Everett thinks that with a good degree of