Geo. H. Thomas to THOMAS, Commanding Camp Dick Robinson : -, October 11, 1861

Garrard County, Kentucky, October 11, 1861.

Brig. Gen. O. M. MITCHEL, Commanding Department of the Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio :

GENERAL: Your communication of the 10th instant was received today at the hands of Governor Johnson, of Tennessee.

I have been doing all in my power to prepare the troops for a move on Cumberland Ford and to seize the Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and shall continue to do all I can to assist you until your arrival here; but justice to myself requires that I ask to be relieved from duty with these troops, since the Secretary has thought it necessary to supersede me in the command, without, as I conceive, any just cause for so doing.

I have already sent one regiment forward, and shall send the others as soon as I can get the transportation. It was my desire to have advanced two regiments and a battery about 6 miles beyond London, to secure the road to Barboursville and to protect a large tract of country abounding in forage, but up to this time have not been able to get the, transportation.

I have also been very much embarrassed in my operations from the – want of funds, not having received any since my arrival here, nearly a ` month ago. I hope the Government will be more liberal with you.

I am, general, respectfully, &c.,

your obedient servant,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
CAMP KENTON, October 11, 1861.
General THOMAS, Commanding Camp Dick Robinson : –
SR: Linclose herewith the copy of a letter received this afternoon
from Colonel Harris, of the Second Ohio Regiment, at Camp Gill, at the
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