T. B. Roy to Headqiarters Department No. 2, July 20, 1862
Tupelo, Miss., July 20, 1862.
Col. JOSEPH WHEELER, Comdg. Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Mississippi:
COLONEL: I am instructed by Major-General Hardee to say that the regiments of your command have been ordered to rendezvous at Ripley immediately. He desires that you will use the utmost possible dispatch to set on foot the movement in contemplation.
your obedient servant,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQ*IARTERS DEPARTMENT No. 2,
Tupelo, Miss, July 20, 1862.
Maj. Gen. E. KirBy SMITH,
Commanding, &e., Knoxville, Tenn.:
GENERAL: Your dispatch announcing General Buellâs arrival opposite Chattanooga was received and answered yesterday.â Confronted
here by a largely superior force strongly intrenched, it will be impossible for me to do more than menace and harass the enemy from this