Unknown to Ambrose E. Burnside, August 13, 1863

General BURNSIDE, Camp Nelson :

I received no instructions from you during the night, but I was told by the operator at the Ohio and Mississippi office this morning that a message had been sent through from one of their regiments directing the division to go by way of Louisville. The Eleventh New Hampshire left Sandoval at 4 this morning, the Thirty-fifth Massachusetts and the Fifty-first New York are now there. This will bring the Eleventh New Hampshire to Seymour at about 10 o’clock, and will give time for any arrangements you may direct, whether or not they are to go by the way of Louisville.

LEWIS Richmond, Assistant Adjutant-General.