ORs: (CS) Orders for General Wheeler - October 5, 1862

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 914

HDQRS. LEFT WING, ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Springfield, Ky.,
October 5, [1862]—2.45 p. m.

COLONEL:
The major-general commanding directs that when you arrive at this place you relieve Lieut. Col. [James A.] Fell (Seventh [Sixth] Confederate Cavalry), who is left in charge here, and order him forward with his detachment (100 men), with orders to report at these headquarters, 1 mile on the Danville road, as soon as possible, for special duty. Wharton left a small picket at the Fredericksburg Bridge, with which the general wishes you to put yourself in communication. It is intended that the main body of your command shall remain at Springfield until to-morrow at 10 o’clock, at which time it will retire to Perryville, leaving a picket on the Little Beech Fork, and await further orders.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

T. B. ROY,
Assistant Adjutant- General.