H^dQuarters 1^st Cavalry Brig

"High Grove" Sept 27^th 1862

 

Col Garner

A.A.G.

                       

Co^l

                                    In accordance with permission given me I recommend John R. Davis for the position of Major of the four Tennessee Companies this day sworn into the service by me. Maj. Davis says that if you have no further use for Captain Sillurd's company which belongs to his Batallion you will please order it to report to him. Shall I press wagons & hall all provisions in this section to Bards Town for the use of the Army, paying for the use of the wagons. I have sent General Polk a full statement of the disposition of the Cavalry force under me which I would be pleased for you to see. from it you will learn my forces are necessaryly very much scattered and not in surporting distance of each other. I can not command three hundred men to move to the support of any one point threatened. No enemy in twelve miles of this place on the Louisville and Bards Town Pike. None in the vicinity of Taylorsville. I will / send you a dispatch to night in relation to the movements of the enemy on the Shephursville Road.

 

I have given orders for the pickets on the out posts to let no one pass, Man, Woman, Child, or Negro, without a permit from General Bragg. I have a parolled Yankee here, what shall I do with him. I have couriers stationed three miles from town & six miles from town on this Pike.

                                                                                               

Most Resply

Your Obt Sev^t

John A Wharton

Co^l Comdg 1^st Caly Brig

 

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John A. Wharton

            Col Comdg

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Recommends Davis as John R. Davis as

Major of 4 companies of Con.

wishes orders to press wagons

&c. His position and number

of force. Enemy's

movements—

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