Horatio G. Wright to Oommanding Thirty-ninth Kentucky Volunteers, November 25, 1862

Col. J. Dixs, J. R., Oommanding Thirty-ninth Kentucky Volunteers, Oamp Finnell, near Piketon, Pike County, Kentucky :

CoLONEL: Your letter of the 17th instant was received to-day. Your communication of the 10th instant, reporting your gratifying success in your attack upon a camp of the rebels, was also received, and answered by letter, dated the 19th instant, which you will soon receive, if it has not reached you already.t Lists of paroled coldiers should be sent to these headquarters, for transmission to the commissary-general of pris-

+ For communications referred to, seo affair near Piketon, Ky., November 5, Part I,

pp. 7, 8. 7 B R—VOL Xx, PTO oners, to be used in making exchanges; and in sending prisoners to Camp Chase, you must oe careful to send with them the written evidence of their disloyalty, and whatever other charges may exist against them.

In regard to the arms furnished for your regiment, I have to say that they were supplied on the requisition of the Governor of Kentucky, and that I know nothing of their quality. It is next to impossible at this time to get such as you desire to have, owing to their scarcity, but as soon as your regiment is full, and mustered into the United States service, which I understand is not the case now, I will do all I can to procure for you an efficient arm, in the place of those you now have. At present the few on hand here are of the most indifferent quality. I am depending very much upon you for the protection of your portion of the State, and hope, in connection with Colonel Cranor, you will be able to break up all the guerrilla bands on both sides of the Big Sandy you in your section of the State for its protection.

Is it possible for you, now that Humphrey Marshall has been withdrawn from Abingdon, to make a dash on that vicinity and break up the railroad seriously, by burning bridges, &c.? It would be an important enterprise, and as it is only 45 miles from the gap, I should think it possible with your hardy men. Let me hear from you frequently.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,