Dispatch

Molean to Horatio G. Wright, November 27, 1862

HEADQUARTERS,

Where are your troops; what doing; where moving? Report fully. By command: J. P. GARESCHE, Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE Ohio, . Cincinnati, November 27, 1862. Maj. Gen. HoRATIO G. WRIGHT, Lexington, Ky.: The following, dated this day, just received : Major McLEAN: Operator at Cave City reports Morgan encamped last night near Glasgow. Lieutenant Carson, acting commissary there, asks what to do with public stores. I have advised General Rosecrans, and have directed Colonel Hall, commanding brigade at Munfordville, to protect the stores and attack and whip Morgan. If the stores could not be protected, to destroy them as last resort. Scott or Forrest reported at Celina, on the’Cumberland. My scout reports 6,000 rebels at Sparta. Beis Snowing hard.

MoLEAN.

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Middle and East Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, Pt. 1. Location: Nashville. Summary: Molean urgently requests Horatio G. Wright's troop movements and reports Confederate activity near Glasgow, advising protection or destruction of public stores and plans to counter Morgan's forces.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 20, Part 1 View original source ↗