Thos. L. Snead to Sterling Price, September 11, 1862

Guntown, Miss., September 11, 1862.

COLONEL COMMANDING FORTY-SECOND ALABAMA REG@T.:

COLONEL: You will put your regiment in marching order to-morrow, so that it may move thoroughly armed and with three days’ cooked rations on the morning of the 13th instant. The officers at the post have been ordered to fill your requisitions promptly. You will send your wagons forward with your baggage to or near the point at which the Tupelo and Saltillo road intersects the Saltillo and Bay Springs road, and move your men by railway to Saltillo as early as possible the next morning. so that you may overtake your wagons and make a full day’s march upon the 13th. From Saltillo you will follow the road

taken by Maury’s division, which you will join without any unnecessary delay and report your command to General Maury, who will assign it to Moore’s brigade. If the militia do not arrive in time to permit you to leave on the 13th, or if any other unforeseen circumstance shall prevent you from leaving Tupelo that day, you will leave as soon thereafter as possible, sending forward meanwhile a courier to General Maury to advise him of the detention. You will also, if the quartermaster can provide transportation, take at least two days’ uncooked rations in your wagons. ‘The cooked rations may be carried either on the person or in the wagons. The general directs me to call your attention to the great importance of your overtaking his army at the earliest possible moment. The two companies of artillery from Columbus will march with you as attached to your regiment until you join the army, when they will re port to the major-general commanding. I am,

very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Assistant Adjutant-General
HOLLY SPRINGS, MIss., September 11, 1862.
(Received at Guntown September 12, 1862.:
General STERLING PRICE:
Enemy evacuating Memphis. Seventeen transports from Curtis’ army
passed, going up, Sunday. Enemy reported evacuating also Bolivar
and Jackson, going toward Fort Pillow. I will write you by courier