Unknown to Edward D. Townsend, September 26, 1861

September 26, 1861.

$ Cincinnati,] September 26, 1861. E. D. TOWNSEND, Assistant Adjutant- General :

SIR: Your telegram of the 25th instant is received. Only two regiments of Illinois troops have been in Camp Dennison. Both of these have been sent to General Anderson at Louisville

by order of General

Frémont.

I reached these headquarters on Saturday evenmg, the 22d instant,

and found the city greatly excited. General Anderson was reported to

be in great peril, and Louisville threatened with attack by a large force

under Buckner, approaching by Muldraugh’s Hill, near the point of

the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, where the railroad crosses the

Salt River; also by turnpike road leading to the mouth of Salt River

and thence to Louisville. It was further stated that Zollicoffer had