ORs: (CS) Orders from Gen. Polk - June 28, 1863

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 23, Part 1, Page 620

IN THE FIELD, FIVE MILES FROM TULLAHOMA,
June 28, 1863—3 a. m.

[General J. A. WHARTON:]

GENERAL:
I have just been informed that General Martin has been badly defeated at Shelbyville, from which I take it for granted that the rear of the column on the Rowesville and Tullahonia road is uncovered by cavalry. If you have no other orders to the contrary, I think it desirable, and so direct, that you move your column back, or as much of it as is not under other orders, to Rowesville, so as to cover the rear of my troops and those of General Hardee moving on this road. If the infantry shall have moved onward from Rowesville before you reach there, you had better follow them up the creek about a mile to a point at which a road comes into the Rowesville and Tullahoma road from Shelbyville. Supposing you free to act, this movement should be made as promptly as possible, so as to intercept any movement from Shelbyville via Schoefner’s Bridge. Inform the officer in the rear of the column of what you conclude to do, and me also.

L. POLK,
Lieutenant-General.