W. P. Anderson to Ambrose E. Burnside, August 20, 1863

Major-General BURNSIDE, Crab Orchard: I am very anxious to hear from you. W. S. ROSECRANS, Major-General. ; CRAB ORCHARD, August 20, 1863. Major-General RosEcRANS : I am waiting reports from some of our operations ; will telegraph eon our plan early in the morning. I think we will be in time. ou may rely on every possible co-operation. Which town of Anderson is Thomas near? Whereabouts in the valley is Crittenden ? A. E. BURNSIDE, Major-General. SPECIAL ORDERS, t Hpqrs. DEPARTMENT OF THE Ohio, No. 821. August 20, 1863. I. It gerne military necessity to construct railroads to supply the army, &c., Brigadier-General Boyle is ordered to make any Fithian impressment of negroes to labor on said roads—to the number of 8,000 if deemed necessary. He will, at the earliest practicable moment, place the working force on the road to grade it from Lebanon to vicinity of Danville and co-operate with the officers of the road in the construction of it and urge forward the work with all possible dispatch. He will also commence as soon as practicable the work of grading the road from Nicholasville to Danville. While discretion is given to General Boyle in the appropriation of the labor, it is important that the road from Lebanon to Danville and thence to Somerset be pressed forward to completion at the earliest possible moment, and the road from Lebanon to Danville presenting the least formidable difficulties; he is directed to give attention to construction of that road first, but to carry on the construction of both roads at the same time. I. I. Brigadier-General Boyle is authorized and directed to detail line officers as quartermasters and commissaries to perform duties as such in supplying laborers on the roads, He is authorized and directed to make requisitions on quartermasters for wagons, carts, picks, shovels, spades, tents, and all articles needed in construction of the roads, and he will order commissaries to supply laborers, and quartermasters and commissaries will fill such requisitions. He will make requisitions for mules and horses needed in the construction of the said roads. III. Brigadier-General Boyle is authorized and directed to employ citizens to aid in the work of building the roads, and to pay for such services at rates in no case to exceed $5 per day for the principal peente, and such services will be paid by the quartermasters monthly. By Aenean of Major-General Burnside :

; W. P. ANDERSON,