ORs: (CS) Message to Col. Wheeler - October 19, 1862

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 965

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Barboursville, Ky.,
October 19, 1862.

Col. JOSEPH WHEELER:

COLONEL:
I am directed to say by the general commanding that General Smith informs him that he has given instructions to General McCown to fall back to Big Laurel, this side of London. Your dispatch of 9 p. m. of the 18th is just received Since writing the above. The general desires to say it is particularly gratifyihg, and supports the reputation you have already won for high soldierly qualities. The general proposes to proceed at once forward to Flat Lick, where he will meet and confer with General B. K. Smith.

Respectfully, colonel, your obedient servant,

GEO. G. GARNER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

P. S.—I congratulate you, my dear fellow, upon the snccess with which you have conducted operations in our rear.