ORs: (US) Correspondence Between Gen. D. C. Buell & Col. Miller

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 340

HEADQUARTERS,
Huntsville,
August 15, 1862.

Colonel MILLER,
Nashville:

It will not answer to send a guard and working party to Gallatin until you have some knowledge of the movements of the enemy, especially when from your report it is probable that they have gone in a direction from which your guard would be easily cut off. I apprehend that your detachments on the Edgefield road may have been captured. My orders are not obeyed. Instead of fortifying their posts and defending them manfully the guards lounge about without vigilance and are gathered up by the enemy as easily as he would herd as many cattle. One resolute company, properly stockaded, could defy Forrest’s whole force.

D. C. BUELL.