HEADQUARTERS,

Cincinnati, May 22, 1863.

General ROSECRANS:

Troops for the main column start to-morrow. Part of Hartsuff’s start to-morrow, and the remainder next day. Hartsuff will not be as tardy as supposed. By what route do you propose to send pack-mules? Have you packers with them? Where shall we receive them? Will be concentrated on the Cumberland in three or four days, and will then move rapidly. The main column will be fully as large as Loring represents. Force will be sent to Carthage to relieve Tennessee regiments at once. Telegraph line will follow us.

A.E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.

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MURFREESBOROUGH, May 22, 1863.

Major-General BURNSIDE:

I will send pack-mules to Carthage or Scottsville, or wherever else you wish to receive them. We have packers. Shove your spare cavalry well to the left, to cover Crook’s movement on Liberty.

W.S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General.

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CINCINNATI, OHIO, May 22, 1863.

Maj. Gen. H.W. HALLECK, General-in-Chief:

A column is now organizing for a movement which was planned with the understanding that Getty’s division was to join me. The movement should not be delayed, and I hope our lines of communication are strong enough to warrant it. You will remember that it was the understanding that Getty was to join us very soon. The movement will be commenced.

A.E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.

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CINCINNATI, May 22, 1863.

General BOYLE, Louisville, Ky.:

I have ordered two more brigades of the Ninth Corps to Columbia, which, with Morrison’s brigade, makes a complete division. They start at daylight in the morning from Middleburg.

Order Jamestown to be occupied as an outpost by some of Jacob’s cavalry, and I think it would be well to occupy Creelsborough and Burkesville both in the same way, if it is possible, as it will prevent much stealing of horses and supplies, and it would prepare us for the contemplated movement. You can order Stover’s Tennessee regiment to Lebanon at once. Give it all the arms and supplies it needs. The Sixteenth Kentucky can be sent to Glasgow at once.

What arms do you need for the Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry? I will have them sent at once, if possible.

Have the regiment of Morrison’s brigade that is at Green River sent to Columbia. Have Henshaw’s battery sent to Glasgow. Send these troops by train or over the road, as you think best. Leave the Sixty-third Indiana where they are for the present. If you have already given orders starting the Sixty-third Indiana for Glasgow, you can replace it on the railroad by the Sixteenth Kentucky.

A.E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.

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CINCINNATI, May 22, 1863.

General WILLCOX, Lexington, Ky.:

Gilbert’s reconnaissance to Cumberland Gap is very creditable. I am anxious to receive his written plan for an attack. Let Sturgis’ division halt at Crab Orchard for further orders. I am very much afraid we shall be troubled in getting up supplies. Do Carter’s quartermasters act energetically? How is he off for ammunition? If he cannot supply himself with subsistence while he is at Somerset, he certainly cannot when he moves to the front. Does he transport salt meats? He should carry nothing but hard bread and small rations, and live on fresh meat.

A.E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.

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MAY 22, 1863.

(Confidential)

Colonel HARTRANFT, Lancaster:

You will please start the Second Division for Somerset to-morrow morning. As the road from Stanford to Somerset is already crowded with trains for the troops now at Somerset, you had better move at least part of the division by the Crab Orchard road, if you think it will facilitate the movement. Acknowledge receipt of this dispatch, and let me know what regiments will be ready to start to-morrow morning.

O.B. WILLCOX,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

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HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,

Cincinnati, Ohio, May 22, 1863.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 71.

WAR DEPARTMENT, ADJUTANT-GENERAL’S OFFICE,

Washington, April 27, 1863.

GENERAL ORDERS, No. 103.

The President directs that the troops in Kentucky not belonging to the Ninth Army Corps be organized into the Twenty-third Army Corps, to be commanded by Maj. Gen. G.L. Hartsuff.

By order of the Secretary of War:

E.D. TOWNSEND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

I. In accordance with the above order, the troops serving in Kentucky, with the exception of the Ninth Army Corps and those troops which, from military necessity, are temporarily serving with it, will be organized into the Twenty-third Army Corps, under the direction of Maj. Gen. G.L. Hartsuff, who will command it. He will leave along the line of the railroad and at the depots of the various stores such force as may be necessary for their protection. This force will be under the command of Brigadier-General Boyle till it can be relieved by the troops now raising in Kentucky.

II. For the objects set forth in Paragraph III of this order, the State of Kentucky is announced as a district in this department.

III. Brigadier-General Boyle is placed in command of the District of Kentucky for the following purposes: He will have command of all the forces raised in Kentucky for special service in that State, under General Orders, No. 59, current series, from these headquarters; will have the charge of the safety of the public property, and the preservation of quiet in the State; will have the command of the guards over railroads, bridges, and depots of stores. These guards he will replace as soon as possible from the troops he is raising in Kentucky, the guards relieved reporting to General Hartsuff.

IV. Capt. S.S. Sumner, additional aide-de-camp, is announced as a member of the staff of the major-general commanding, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By command of Major-General Burnside:

LEWIS RICHMOND,

Assistant Adjutant-General.