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send on the troops in your army for the purpose of making the exchange, and if you can spare them for that purpose and their term of service be sufficiently long to justify the step. The Tennessee troops under General Johnston can be sent to you. I trust that our late success in the Southwest will have a good effect upon the people among whom you are operating. I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant R. E. Lee, General, Commanding. Bridgeport, April 7, 1862. Capt. Thomas S. Scott, Assistant Adjutant-General, Chattanooga: Don't send train or troops. I am satisfied from examinations of Major Lea and myself that the enemy has taken the back track. I will go to the tunnel in hopes of catching him. Don't send rations and powder. S. B. Maxey, Brigadier-General, Commanding. Corinth, April 8, 1862. General Samuel Jones, Commanding: Please grant no passes to this place to ladies coming to visit the wounded, for I am expecting another battle here. G. T. B