The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 23, In Two Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc. Page: 946
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946 KY., MID. AND E. TENN., N. ALA., AND SW. VA. [CHAr. XXXV.
Third Brigade (headquarters Cumberland
Gap).
Brig. Gen. Aucii. GRACI., Jr.
43d Alabama, Col. Y. M. Moody.
1st Battalion Alabama Legion, Lieut.
Col. J. H. Holt.
2d Battalion Alabama Legion, Lieut.
Col. B. Hall, jr.
3d Battalion Alabama Legion, Lieut.
Col. J. W. A. Sanford.
4th Battalion Alabama Legion, Maj. J.
D. McLennan.
- Kentucky Battalion, Capt. Joseph
Desha.
d'2d North Carolina, Col. R. G. A. Love.
63d Tennessee, Col. R. G. Fain.
Kentlucky Squadron, Capt. James A.
Pursifull.
Siler's company North Carolina cavalry,
Capt. Julius T. Siler.
Baxter's battery, Capt. E. D. Baxter.
Kain's battery, Capt. W. C. Kain.
Fourth Brigade (headquarters Zoli..ffer,
Tenn.).Fifth Brigade headquarterse Bell's Bridge).
Brig. Gen. J. W. FRAZER.
55th Georgia, Lieut. Col. A. W. Persons.
58th North Carolina, Col. J. B. Palmer.
64th North Carolina, Maj. Thomas P.
Jones.
Kolb's battery, Capt. R. F. Kolb.
First Cavalry Brigade (headquarters Ebene-
zer, Tenn.).
Brig, Gen. JOHN PEGIAM.
1st Georgia, Col. J. J. Morrison.
6th Georgia, Col. John R. Hart.
7th North Carolina Battalion, Lient. Col.
G. N. Folk.
1st Tennessee, Col J. . Carter.
Rucker's Legion, Col. E. W. Rucker.
I uwald's battery, Capt. Gus. A. Huwald.
Second Cavalry Brigade (absent in fen-
tyol. J ).
Col. JoHs S. Scowr.Brig. Gen. A. E. JACKSON.
10th Confederate, Col. C. T. Goode.
Thomas' regiment, Col. W. H. Thomas. 1st Louisiana, Lieut. Col. J. O. Nixon.
Walker's battalion, Lieut. Col. W. C. 5th North Carolina Battalion, Maj. A. H.
Walker. Baird.
16th Georgia Cavalry (battalion), Lieut. 2d Tennessee, Lieut. Col. H. C. Gilles-
Col. S. J. Winn. pie.
McClung's battery, Lieut. J. L. Pearcy. 5th Tennessee, Col. G. W. McKenzie.
Rhett Artillery, Capt. W. H. Burroughs. Marshall's battery, Capt. W. R. Marshall.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE,
Knoxville, August 1, 1863.
Maj. Gen. SAMUEL JONES, Dublin, Va.:
GENERAL: Your communication of yesterday is just received. Your
letter to the War I)epartment, in reference to the defenses of Saltville,
was referred by the Secretary of War to the chief engineer, and came
down to me indorsed with an order to send my engineer to throw up
defenses at Saltville. I complied with the order, supposing, of course,
that you hald been advised of the facts. At the same time I represented
to the Secretary of War the anoma lous position in which both you and
I had been placed by the order. I was charged with the fortification
of a position where I could give no orders i you were charged with the
defense of fortifications over the construction of which you had no con-
trol. I referred to my understanding of the interview between you, the
Secretary, and myself, and asked a solution of the question by explicit
orders. First. Either to leave the question of the defense to yourself,
as you commanded the force at Saltville, and were charged by the Sec-
retary with the duty of holding a force there and of sustaining it, or,
secondly, if I should be held responsible for the safety of the place, as 1
had no troops disposable, it would be proper to transfer to General
Preston's command the force usually kept by you to sustain the Salt-
Works. Either of these solutions, I remarked, would be satisfactory
to me. I would prefer, on account of the already great extent of my
department, the former; but I stated it was due to both of us that the
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