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Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), Confederate correspondence, Etc. (search)
annot attack, and am retiring. E. Van D. General Polk's Station, Miss., May 22, 1862--10.40 a. m. General Beauregard: My own troops are posted, as directed, between the Purdy road and the railroad. I find there is not sufficient space between my line and the railroad for General Breckinridge's command; but Breckinridge is on the railroad ready to move across. Adams' and Slemon's regiments of cavalry are on my left and rear. I have sent out cavalry pickets on the bridges well toward Chambers; also on the road between the bridge road and the railroad. Our line of advance pickets on the east of the railroad has not been disturbed and our left is well protected by it. My position is therefore, I believe, thus far masked. I have Breckinridge's brigade, under Bowen, on the Purdy road, posted near the sally-port. I have organized the invalids, and have posted them along my lines. There may be of them perhaps 1,000. The turn-out from the regiments has been larger than was expecte