William S. Rosecrans to Henry W. Halleck, June 23, 1862

June 23, 1862. Major-General HALLECK, Corinth, Miss. : Your dispatch just received ; will be advised at once. A regiment and battery will be sent to take post at Danville and cover the passes of the Tuscumbia, our front and right. Our cavalry have been employed to the south and east, as I advised oe Kelton, so as to have very little disposable for the west and south, Were it possible for a battalion of the First Ohio Cavalry, which Buell detached from this command, to be sent to Kossuth and Nolin’s below it would secure you and our right. We cannot watch that point now, but must content ourselves with drawing in from Blackland and watching the roads near there by light patrols. If that Kossuth scout can be furnished as suggested it will be eminently useful.

W. S. ROSECRANS,