Sterling Price to Sterling Price, Tupelo, Miss, September 4, 1862
Tupelo, Miss., September 4, 1862.
Maj. Gen. EARL VAN Dorn, Commanding District of the Mississippi :
GENERAL: One of your staff officers (Colonel Lomax) having requested me to do so, I state for your information that I can put in the field 13,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, and 800 artillery, effective total ; that they are supplied with transportation and ammunition, as prescribed in General Braggâs last general orders; that subsistence has been provided to October 1; that. the commissary trains will transport seven daysâ provisions, and that I will have arms for all my troops including those exchanged prisoners that General Bragg has ordere to be sent to me.
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Major-General, Commanding.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., September 4, 1862.
General STERLING PRICE, Tupelo, Miss. :
Governor Shorter, of Alabama, telegraphs me that the enemy is ravaging the country on the railroad south of the Tennessee River, in Alabama, and calls on me to send troops to relief of country. He must
mean country from Decatur west, in your jurisdiction. I have no force
to send. Cannot you organize expedition by way of Russellville and
co-operate with Roddey, understood to be about Moulton, and let your