ORs: (US) Maj.-Gen. D. C. Buell to Gen. Smith - July 13, 1862

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 140

HEADQUARTERS,
Huntsville, July 13, 1862.

General SMITH,
Cowan, or on the road:
(Care of General Johnson.)

General Johnson will send another regiment in the morning to report to you. Use it and another regiment to re-enforce any point that requires it. They may be required at Wartrace, where there is a regiment. Communicate with Colonel Hambright there by means of a guard train. Colonel Walker’s regiment is, I suppose, at Winchester to-night. Call him to the road. Colonel Matthews was ordered to return to Murfreesborough, but the orders may not have reached him; if so, he is probably at Shelbyville tonight He had best re-enforce Wartrace. Try with a hand car or couriers to communicate verbally with Murfreesborough, and if it is necessary and possible run re-enforcements to that point. That must be managed with prudence. Report as often as possible. Jackson’s cavalry and a battery will reach Shelbyville, I think, to-morrow.

D. C. BUELL.