THE WAR OF THE REBELLION: A COMPILATION OF THE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE ARMIES. PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, BY BVT. LIEUT AND PUBLISHED PURSUANT TO ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED JUNE 16, 1880. SERIES I-VOLUME X-IN TWO PARTS. PART II.-CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1884. PART II.-VOL. X. CORRESPONDENCE, ORDERS, AND RETURNS RELATING TO OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, NORTH MISSISSIPPI, NORTH ALABAMA, AND SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA FROM MARCH 4 TO JUNE 10, 1862. UNION CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. Maj. Gen. U. S. GRANT, Fort Henry: SAINT LOUIS, March 4, 1862. You will place Maj. Gen. C. F. Smith in command of expedition, and remain yourself at Fort Henry. Why do you not obey my orders to report strength and positions of your command? H. W. HALLECK, II. The postmasters of the several brigades are hereby detailed for special duty in this city with Col. A. H. Markland, mail agent PostOffice Department, for ten days.* * By command of General Buell: JAMES B. FRY, Assistant Adjutant-General, Chief of Staff. [Addenda.] P. O. DEPT., APPOINTMENT OFFICE, Feb. 20, 1862. A. H. MARKLAND, Esq., Special Agent Post-Office Department, Fort Donelson, near Dover, Tenn.: DEAR SIR: Your letter of the 12th instant is received, and your action in the premises approved of by the Department. I take the occasion to express my gratification on your reappointment, and to add my testimony to the efficiency, energy, and zeal manifested in the discharge of the important duties devolved upon you. In view of the advance of the army into Tennessee it is deemed important that the mail service shall keep pace, to a reasonable extent, with its movements, in order to afford the facilities necessary to its efficiency, as well as to the communications between it and the Headquarters at Washington and elsewhere. It is desirable, therefore, that the necessary service for the present be re-established on the more important routes; say between the county seats and convenient to the By Special Orders, No. 30, Headquarters District of West Tennessee, March 20, 1862, Orlando H. Ross was appointed "special mail agent to take charge of, forward, and receive all mails on the Tennessee River." |