C. Goddard to and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, November 8, 1862

November 8, 1862.

No. 10. Bowling Green, November 8,

XIV. Col. 8S. D. Bruce, with four companies Ninth Michigan, four companies Twenty-eighth Kentucky, ten companies Seventeenth Kentucky Infantry, the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, and the Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, will proceed to clear of rebels the country lying between Green River and the Cumberland, and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from Muhlenburg, Hopkinsville, and Lyons—put a stop to contraband trade in that region. He will establish his headquarters at Russellville, Hopkinsville, or such other point as may best enable him to effect this object. He will also make the best practicable arrangements, and yive necessary information to enable us to draw from the country all the supplies it can spare for this army. He will communicate fully and frequently with the commanding officer at Bowling Green and Nashville and report to Major-General Wright for such orders, instructions, an assistance as he may require to fulfill his mission.

By command of Major-General Rosecrans :

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

BowLine GREEN, Ky.,

November 9, 1862—7 p. m.

Will you please endeavor to have Major-General Thomas permitted

to select his own staff from military or civil life, as he may find best?

He commands the center of this army, five divisions strong. It willbea