Letter
Unknown to Horatio G. Wright, November 27, 1862
November 27, 1862.
. Cincinnati, November 27, 1862. Maj. Gen. HoRATIO G. WRIGHT, Lexington, Ky.: The following, dated this day, just received :
Major McLEAN:
Operator at Cave City reports Morgan encamped last night near Glasgow. Lieutenant Carson, acting commissary there, asks what to do with public stores. I have advised General Rosecrans, and have directed Colonel Hall, commanding brigade at Munfordville, to protect the stores and attack and whip Morgan. If the stores could not be protected, to destroy them as last resort. Scott or Forrest reported at Celina, on the’Cumberland. My scout reports 6,000 rebels at Sparta. Beis
Snowing hard. MoLEAN.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Middle and East Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, Pt. 1. Summary: Military command orders protection or destruction of public stores and an attack on Confederate forces under Morgan near Glasgow, with intelligence reports on enemy movements in Kentucky and Tennessee.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 20, Part 1
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