HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Big Spring Branch, Tenn., June 25, 1863 — 12.40 p.m.

(Received 8 p.m.)

Major-General BURNSIDE:

You have done a fine thing in East Tennessee. I send the following dispatch, just received:

NASHVILLE.

Colonel TRUESDAIL, Chief of Army Police:

I have information from a scout sent out by General Thomas two months since that on the 13th instant there were 4,000 rebel troops at Knoxville, under Buckner; 2,000 at Loudon, under a colonel, the place fortified; 3,000 at Kingston, mostly Pegram’s forces just arrived from Monticello, Kingston being strongly fortified. Siege guns, four in number, removed from Cumberland Gap to Kingston, and 1,500 troops in Greenville. Trains taking large quantities of ammunition to Chattanooga from Knoxville. They expect to fight at Tullahoma. Provisions scarce.

H.W. FYFFE.

W.S. ROSECRANS,

Major-General, Commanding.

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CINCINNATI, June 25, 1863.

General CARTER, Somerset, Ky.:

I congratulate you, together with Colonel Sanders, upon the success of his expedition into East Tennessee. Please send me the names and numbers of the regiments comprising the force engaged in the expedition.

A.E. BURNSIDE,

Major-General.