O. M. Mitchel to Camp Kenton, Mason County, October 3, 1861
October 3, 1861.
: October 3, 1861. Brig. Gen. GEORGE H. THOMAS, Commanding Camp Dick Robinson, Ky.:
GENERAL: I have just received yours of the Ist instant. The regi-.
ments sent from Ohio to your camp have been compelled to leave withE Pr TN
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out their wagons, owing to the fact that no time could be lost in getting
them into the field. I have now the wagons, horses, and harness, and am organizing a force of teamsters, and hope very soon to supply all the regiments with transportation.
You request me to send the column of about four regiments up the Big Sandy, to co-operate with you in your advance upon the Cumberland Gap. You do not advise me what amount of force is indispensably necessary at Camp Diek Robinson before you will feel it expedient to commence your advance.
We have in Ohio at this time a limited number of arms. The number of regiments which we can put in the field is necessarily limited. Admitting we have but three regiments remaining prepared to move in all this week, do you prefer them to be sent to your camp, or do you prefer them to undertake the expedition up the Sandy?
Send your answer by a mounted messenger to the telegraph office, that it may promptly reach me.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
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Near Maysville, Ky., October 4, 1861.
Captain GREENE, Assistant Adjutant-General :
SIR : I desire to call the attention of General Anderson to the follow.
ing intelligence that comes to me from a person in whom I have the