The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 32, In Three Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc. Page: 699
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CHA. XLUV.) CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. -CONFEDER.rATE. 099
Push any success you may obtain to the utmost. Should any East
Tennessee deserters come in to you take away their arms and let
them go home.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
O. LATROBE,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
The reason General Longstreet believes that but a small force of.
the enemy is in your front is that no large force could for so long a
time exist with such a scarcity of forage.
O. LATROBE,
Assistant Aajutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS, ( ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
No. 33. Richmond, February 9, 1864.
XIV. Lieut. Gen. J. B. Hood will proceed without delay to Dalton,
Ga., and report to General Joseph E. Johnston, coMImanding, for
assignment to the command of an army corps.
By command of the Secretary of War:
JOHN WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
MORRISTOWN, TENN.,
February 9, 1864.
General S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General:
I propose to advance against Knoxville again. Can't you send me
Hodge's brigade of cavalry, now at Smithville, to protect my flanks ?
My cavalry is much reduced and worked down.
J. LONGSTREET,
Lieutenant- general.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE,
February 9, 1864..
Maj. Gen. W. T. MARTIN,
Commanding Cavalry :
The lieutenant-general commanding directs that you send Colonel
Dibrell's brigade down on the Knoxville road as far as he can go
at once.- Let him specially notice and report upon the condition of
that road, and all side roads leading to or from it. Include-inr his-
report the [condition] of the road between Bralsum's Ferry( and
Knoxville; also have the country to the left in the direction of
Maryville examined with a view to your ability to move over it in
case we make an advance with infantry, and require you to move on
our left flanik. This information is desired as speedily as possible.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
OSMAN LATROBE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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