Letter

James B. Fry to George H. Thomas, November 19, 1861

Louisville, Ky.

Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding Division, Crab Orchard, Ky. :

SIR: General Buell directs me to say that the orders he has given you in reference to the movement of your command contemplates the whole of it, and it will, in consequence, not be necessary to continue the depot from which you are now supplied. You will come upon a line of whieh Louisville and not Cincinnati will be the main depot.

The general desires to be informed. in due season of the time at which you will probably arrive at Liberty, as he intends to have further instruetions ready to reach you when you get to that point. i

very respectfully, your obedient servant,

; JAMES B. FRY,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Chief of Staff.
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SPECIAL ORDERS, ADIT AND INSP. GEN/S OFFICE,
No. 88 j Richmond, July 4, 1861.
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6. The country embracing that portion of Alabama north of the Tennessee River, beginning at Waterloo and running thence east with the
. river to Decatur, as well as the portion of the State lying north of the
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 1861. Location: Louisville, Ky..
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 4 View original source ↗