Letter
Charles F. Smith to Paine, September 30, 1861
EVANSVILLE
EVANSVILLE, September 30, 1861.
General PAINE: A oret . . General Buckner was at Greenville at. 3 o’clock yesterday—destination, Lock and Dam No. 1, on Green River—with 5,200 men. Information strietly reliable. Send 3,000 troops with gunboat; 400 forthwith. We have 400 men there. Can’t be furnished. I don’t know Mr. Holloway.
C. F. SMITH,
Brigadier-General.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 1861. Location: EVANSVILLE. Summary: Brigadier General C. F. Smith urgently requests General Paine to send 3,000 troops with a gunboat to Lock and Dam No. 1 on Green River to counter General Buckner's 5,200 men.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 4
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