Thos. L. Snead to Buren, Tenn, August 28, 1862
Tupelo, Miss., August 28, 1862.
Brig. Gen. HENRY LITTLE, Commanding Division:
GENERAL: You will order Capt. E. J.. Sanders to move northward immediately with his company and Captain Mannâs Partisan Rangers for the purpose of ascertaining the position and movements of the enemy between the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Tuscumbia. These companies are now at Bay Springs. You may attach Lieutenant. Wellsâ scouts to the command if you see fit to do so. Captain Sanders will report daily to these headquarters through you.
very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Chief of Staff.
Hight miles from Holly Springs, south of Bolivar, Tenn.,
August 29, 1862.
Major SNEAD, Chief of Staff:
All right up here. The Federals have concentrated everything at
Bolivar. My command is getting on finely. My plan is succeeding