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send additional troops to Cairo and Paducah to cooperate with you, but at present it is impossible; and it seems to me that, if you deem such cooperation necessary to your success, your movement on Bowling Green should be delayed. I know nothing of the plan of campaign, never having received any information on the subject; but it strikes me that to operate from Louisville and Paducah, or Cairo, against an enemy at Bowling Green, is a plain case of exterior lines, like that of McDowell and Patterson, which, unless each of the exterior columns is superior to the enemy, leads to disaster ninety-nine times in a hundred. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. W. Halleck, Major-General. On the 6th of January McClellan wrote to Buell as follows: Halleck, from his own accounts, will not soon be in condition to support properly a movement up the Cumberland. And again on the 13th: Halleck is not yet in condition to afford you the support you need when you undertake the moveme