S. P. Carter to Cmar XVI] â CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.â UNION 455, November 27, 1861
Camp Calvert, November 27, 1861.
(Received November 29, 1861.)
GENERAL: I wrote you this morning Mel despairingly.* Tam glad to say that the feeling in camp seems better this evening.
Yours of the 25th instant has been received. So much of its contents as I ean make known will have a good effect on officers and men.
In ease it shall be necessary to move this foree to any point west of this, I would ask that we be permitted to go via Somerset, as all the men and many of the officers have an almost unconquerable aversion to Rockcastle Hills and the whole Crab Orchard road.
Ishall hope that the movement into East Tennessee will be direct and speedy, and that you are to be in command. The force at Cumberland Gap is stated to be between 1,500 and 2,000.
News received from Anderson County, East Tennessee, this morning has it that Zollicoffer has gone towards Jamestown, East Tennessee.
I shall make every effort to be ready to move as soon as orders are received. I have before advised you that our means of transportation are very limited. Six wagons (for which a requisition was made some
. time ago) are still wanting for Second Regiment.
The paymaster’s appearance here will have a good effect. I hope he will be hurried on; and as Treasury notes will not answer to send to Tennessee, the soldiers should be paid in gold, in order that they may remit to their families.
your obedient servant,
Acting Brigadier- General, Commanding.
* Not found.