Letter

Unknown to J. T. Boyle, December 5, 1862

Cincinnati, Ohio, December 5, 1862.

Brig. Gen. J. T. BoYLE, Louisville, Ky. :

If you credit Granger’s report in regard to enemy’s cavalry, you will stop the movement of the Second Michigan and Ninth Pennsylvania till you can replace them by other mounted troops, and you will employ them meanwhile to guard railroad bridge, if needful. Hasten mounting of Sixth Kentucky and the movements of the Twelfth Kentucky as

much as possible. H. G@. WRIGHT, Major-General, Commanding.

NASHVILLE, December 6, 1862—1 p. m. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War, and ADJUTANT-GENERAL U.S. ARMY: General Stanley and I are very anxious to have Mann’s Seventh Michigan Cavalry, now armed and equipped at Detroit, ordered to this army, which is lamentably deficient in cavalry and cavalry arms and equipments. Do grant us this request. W. S. ROSECRANS, Major-General.

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Kentucky, Middle and East Tennessee, N. Alabama, S.W. Virginia, Pt. 1. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio. Summary: Major-General Rosecrans requests urgent reinforcement of cavalry troops and equipment to strengthen Union forces in the Department of the Ohio during the Civil War.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 20, Part 1 View original source ↗