Jno. A. Rawlins to U. S. GRANT, Jackson, Tenn, October 2, 1862

Corinth, Miss., October 2, 1862.

Brigadier-General STANLEY, Commanding Division :

The general commanding directs that you prepare your command to move by 3 o’clock with three days’ rations. Move by the bridge road leaving a regiment as a guard at the bridge. Come to near General Grant’s old headquarters and report for orders. The outpost at Kossuth will come in. H. G. te ye Theutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff.

GENERAL masa HDQrs. DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE, No. 87. Jackson, Tenn., October 2, 1862. I. In pursuance of orders from the Surgeon-General of the Army, Washington, D. C., Surg. Horace R. Wirtz, U. S. Army, is hereby assigned to duty as chief medical director of the District of West Tennessee. * * * * * * ®

By order of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant:

Assistant-Adjutant General.
BOLIvAR, TENN., October 3, 1862.
Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT, Jackson, Tenn. :
I have sent a heavy cavalry reconnaissance toward Pocahontas. My
own division has only two brigades, each of five regiments. Ross has
four brigades. I will hold eight regiments ready to march as soon as I
hear from the roads south and west. No further news from Pocahontas. It is reported that the exchanged prisoners from Vicksburg are