Dispatch

Unknown to Ulysses S. Grant, November 12, 1862

HAMILTON’S HEADQUARTERS,

November 12, 1862. Major-General GRANT:

No report from Lee as yet about the Coldwater Bridge. Quinby is at Davis’ Mill with one brigade. I should like to have a telegraph station there. Oan an operator be sent down ?

0. S. HAMILTON, Brigadier- General.

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in West Tennessee and Mississippi, Pt. 1. Summary: Brigadier General O. S. Hamilton requests Major General Ulysses S. Grant to send a telegraph operator to Quinby's brigade at Davis Mill for communication regarding the Coldwater Bridge situation.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 17, Part 1 View original source ↗