: Oliver D. Greene to George H. Thomas, September 23, 1861
Commanding Camp Dick Robinson :
GENERAL: By the direction of the general I write to say that for the present he can afford you no assistance as you required. Louisville is very strongly threatened, and until that point is out of danger he can send no re-enforcements to you.
He considers your views of the emergency as eminently just and proper, and nothing would afford him greater pleasure than to aid you
with all the re-enforeements you ask if it was possible. Until he can send them (which’ he hopes will be very soon), he trusts you will be able to hold your position.
The general directs me to say that he gives his cordial approval to
your course in occupying the asylum at Harrodsburg with the Home Guards. You are fully authorized to contract for the subsistence of the men, in any detachment you may send out, in the manner you think most
-~ desirable. You are also authorized to contract for clothing and tents,
in amount equal to your necessities, at any point where they can be
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
` Assistant Adjutant- General,
ESTILL SPRINGS, September 23, 1861.
General GEORGE H. THOMAS, :
DEAR SIR: Yours of the 23d instant, directing me to hold my main
` body at Irvine, &c., is received. We encamped here yesterday with
two fall companies raised in this county, and we are looking for another