Report of Gen. Wheeler (CS) - NC Campaign

War of the Rebellion:
A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 47, Page 1417

Lieutenant Colonel T. B. ROY,
Assistant Adjutant-General:

COLONEL:
Your dispatch received. I did leave one regiment Texas Rangers to fall back on the Raleigh road. It cannot yet be determined whether the enemy will move on that road. They are now advancing on this. They are as yet but a short distance from the fork.

J. WHEELER,
Major-General.