McPherson and myself think troops can be sent by rail to to Brigadier General Stanley, October 3, 1862

Corinth, Miss., October 3, 1862.

Brigadier-General STANLEY, Oommanding Division:

The general commanding directs you to send a brigade across on to the Chewalla road, through the woods by shortest cut; re-enforce Davies from your left, close in, in conformity with that movement. You had better send Mower. Your guide will show you the road.

{[H. G. KENNETT,] Tneutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff.

SPECIAL ORDERS, } HpqQgs. DISTRIOT OF WEST TENNESSEE, No. 210. Jackson, Tenn., October 3, 1862.

V. Brig. Gen. J. B. McPherson is hereby assigned to the command of the two brigades commanded respectively by Col. M. K. Lawler and Col. John D. Stevenson, and will proceed without delay and with all possible dispatch to Corinth, Miss., and report to Major-General Rosecrans, commanding.

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

[JNO. A. Lg Vaepee

Assistant Adjutant- General.

BETHEL, October 3, 1862.

-Major-General GRANT:

General McPherson and myself think troops can be sent by rail to

Ramer, 11 miles this side of Corinth, and infantry can go by road from

there to Corinth. Lawler is en route to a point 3 miles below Ramer;

will probably be at Ramer by the time your train gets there.