J. O. Pemberton to STARKE, Panola, November 8, 1862
Holly Springs, Miss., November 8, 1862.
Major-General PRICE, Commanding Second Corps :
GENERAL: Order your corps in readiness to move to-morrow morn
Send all wagons, baggage, &c., to Abbeville, at early daylight.
Keep your troops in position awaiting orders.
Lovellâs corps will move back to-night; his baggage train, &c., will move immediately.
Enemy are advancing in force and are near Rustâs division.
Let your train park near Abbeville.
Respectfally, EARL VAN DORN, Major-General.
ABPEVILLE, Miss., November 9, 1862. General 8. CooPER, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond :
The enemy placed himself in very strong force at Grand Junction, La Grange, and Davisâ Mill, with every indication of an immediate and general advance. I deemed it advisable to withdraw from the unde. fensible position at Holly Springs and take a strong one behind Tallahatchie, and am fortifying.
Very respectfully,
Lieutenant-General, Commanding.
ABBEVILLE, Miss., November 9, 1862.
Colonel STARKE, Panola:
This army has retired from Holly Springs behind the Tallahatchie.
Inform Major Blythe, of Mississippi forces, of this fact.
Respectfully