Unknown to Henry Wager Halleck, September 3, 1862

GENERAL GRANT’S HEADQUARTERS,
September 3, 1862.
September 3, 1862—12 m. (Via Cairo, IL, 3 p. m.) Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK, Generalin-Chié :

Your dispatch for troops to go to Kentucky was received at 12 last night. Arrangements were immediately made to send some troops, but your dispatch could not be made out where they were to go nor what route. They will be sept as promptly as possible. Bolivar has been surrounded for several days, but I think can hold out. Jackson was threatened with strong force of cavalry, estimated at 4,000; I think, however, only four regiments. They were badly handled in our front, again in front of Bolivar, then at Medon, and at last a few miles west from there, which I reported to you. One hundred dead were left on the field. Reports now show that we buried 179 of the enemy’s dead. I understand that the whole country around the scene of battle is a hospital for rebel wounded. I have ordered one division from Memphis to Brownsville, and by concentrating the troops west of us at that place I can hold it, if that is important. I will do it at all hazards or be very badly beaten. I immediately telegraphed back for correction

of your dispatch. ; U. 8. GRANT, Major. General.