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Today is a day of  military mobilization in Kentucky, as both sides try to effect a unification of forces.  In the midst of this flury of activity, telegrams from Washington arrive.

Ref.:  http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/recordView.cfm?Content=023/0530

By command of Major-General Halleck:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington,September 20, 1862.

Major-General BUELL, Kentucky:

Your telegram of the 14th is just received. Unquestionably the condition of affairs has so changed since that time as to render any instructions based on your then representations entirely inapplicable. After Bragg had turned your left your movement into Kentucky was probably the best thing you could do; but I fear that here as elsewhere you move too slowly, and will permit the junction of Bragg and Smith before you open your line to Louisville. The immobility of your army is movement of Price into Tennessee.

H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief.

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, September, 20, 1862.
Major-General WRIGHT, Cincinnati, Ohio:

Thomas A. Morris is appointed brigadier-general. I suggest that he be placed in command of troops on the Kanawha. That force should be increased as soon as possible. It seems to me of vast importance that the junction of Bragg and Kirby Smith should be prevented, or at least you and Buell should unite first.

H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief.