Frank C. Armstrong to Cuar. Xxix.] Correspondence, Etc.-confederate. 683, August 22, 1862

August 22, 1862.

August 22, 1862. Maj. THomAs L. SNEAD, Chief of Staff, District of the Tennessee :

MaJor: I have the honor to report that I have started with about 1,600 men of my brigade, and encamp to-night 3 miles south of Bir mingham. I will move to-morrow in the direction of Holly Springs. After reaching that vicinity I shall push rapidly forward toward Grand Junction and northward. I shall move rapidly through that country and strike at any point that_may be assailable. I send a strong scout north from Ellistown toward Ripley, thence in toward Booneville and back to Guntown, where they will report to Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis, whom I have left in command of about 1,200 effective men, with instruetions to keep the pickets ou the same line from Ellistown to Bay Springs. Captains Sanders and Mann are at the latter place. Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis, commanding cavalry at Guuntown, has been ordered to report until my return to Brigadier-General Little. My quartermaster and commissary of subsistence remain at Guntown.

I wrote to Colonel Falkner to push in toward Chewalla. He will have avout 400 men. An express can reach me via Holly Springs.

I have the honor to be, major, your obedient servant,

Brigadier-General.

AUGUST 25, 1862.

ADJUTANL-GENERAL :

Str: Tinclose you a copy of a dispatch frou: Major-General Price,

indicating that the enemy are about to fall back from West Tennessee.

They are already on the move back from the Memphis and Charleston Railroad toward Nashville. Large bodies have-moved toward McMinnville in the last two days, and my impression is they are concentrating at or near Nashville. General Buell is certainly there now.