Thomas L. Crittenden to Major-General CRITTENDEN, August 24, 1863
August 24, 1863. Major-General CRITTENDEN, Dunlap, Tenn. : The general commanding directs that you open communication with Major-General Reynolds. J. P. DROUILLARD, Captain and Aide-de-Camp. DUNLAP, August 24, 1863: Brigadier-General GARFIELD, Chief of Staff: I have your dispatch concerning register of prisoners, nothing more. I anxiously await instructions concerning supplies. Palmer’s train is in this morning from MeMinnville, only partly loaded with commissary supplies, there being not enough there to fill thirty wagons, and there are none, I learn, at Tracy City. Bridgeport would be a more desirable point to draw from for my whole command, if the road in your judgment is safe. A deserter from Harrison, who swam the river yesterday, states that two brigades passed up the river in great haste evening before for Blythe’s Ferry. Stragglimg excessive from the great speed, and their train of forty wagons went at a trot. Hazen believes that all the erossings near him have: been considerably re-enforced. In clause 4 of marching orders you state Minty will act under orders of Van Cleve, aceording to special instructions of the general commanding. I should like to know these orders, if’ amy. Iam all the time uneasy about Van Cleve’s exposed left. Have the troops from Carthage and Kentucky moved, and when will his brigade at McMinnville be relieved ?
T. L. CRITTENDEN,