Unknown to Ulysses S. Grant, August 2, 1862
August 2, 1862.
August 2, 1862. Major-General GRANT, Corinth:
No report from the front. General Morgan reports the Town Creek Bridge safe, and the command returned there.
General Davis reports a brisk trade in salt and other contraband goods going on from Pittsburg south through the region east of him. He has seized twelve barrels in transitu. It seems to me the provost-marshal and commanding officers at Pittsburg and Hamburg Landings should be held responsible for it. Patrols will be necessary to prevent unprincipled sutlersâ clerks and discharged soldiers from selling whatever they
please of contraband. W. S. ROSECRANS, Brigadier-General, U. 8. Army.
CoRINTH, August 3, 1862. Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLEOK:
Cadwalader has reported for duty here. Order directs him to report to you. Where shall he be assigned? The efficiency of this army is weakened by making commands for so many officers of high rank.
U. 8S. GRANT, Major-General.
ROSECRANSâ HEADQUARTERS, August 3, 1862. (Received Corinth, August 3, 1862.) Major-General GRANT: I have ordered Davis to send Mitchellâs brigade to Iuka to relieve Morganâs command, thence to Bear Creek Bridge. Morganâs troops go
to Tuscumbia; Davis to be ready to follow him with the remainder so soon as the news from Granger shall show what dispositions are advisable at the front. I have doubts if any operations in force will require support given to Morgan east, from the nature of the country south of Morganâs line, which is generally hilly and poor. It is probable that column was a reconnoitering covering and designed to cut off the Union men from those hilly regions who were flocking to join us. W. S. ROSECRANS, Brigadier-General, U. S. Army.