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., page 364

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Colonel: The major-general commanding directs me to inform you that he finds it necessary to suspend in its effects the order of Major-General Crittenden directing your command to repair to Decatur, Ala. You will therefore order the companies of your battalion not absolutely under orders from Brigadier-General Leadbetter to report to him at Kingston, Tenn.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

H. L. Clay, Assistant Adjutant-General.

headquarters Department of East Tennessee, Knoxville, March 25, 1862.
Commanding officer, Dalton, Ga.:

Maj. Gen. E. K. Smith directs that one regiment be sent to this place and five others remain for the present at Dalton.

This countermands the dispatch of this morning.

H. L. Clay, Assistant Adjutant-General.

headquarters, Richmond, Va., March 25, 1862.
General Humphrey Marshall, Commanding, &c., Lebanon, Va.:

General: You are under a misapprehension as to the meaning of my letter of the 13th instant as to your communicating with General Smith. I did not intend to say anything in conflict with your instructions of November 1, 1861,¹ but only to desire you to keep in communication with General Smith, in order that there might be the proper concert of action between your command and his whenever occasion may render it expedient. Should an emergency occur to bring your commands together, of course as long as the two may be united your

1 See Series I, Vol. IV, p. 495.

Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office. 1884.

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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.
Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Ed.

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Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott, Ed.