First Division
Maj. Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau
Third Brigade
Major John H. King
15th United States, 1st Battalion:
Captain Henry Keteltas
16th United States, 1st Battalion
Major Sidney Coolidge
18th United States, 1st Battalion
Captain George W. Smith
18th United States, 2d. Battalion
Captain Henry Haymond
19th United States, 1st Battalion:
Captain Augustus H. Plummer
Major-General Thomas to Major-General Rousseau, Commanding First Division:
Headquarters Fourteenth Army Corps, June 24, 1863 - 11.30 p.m.
You will hold your command in readiness to support General Reynolds, should he require assistance or be attacked by the enemy in the morning.
By order of Major-General Thomas
Geo. E. Flynt,
Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.
Major-General Thomas to Major-General Rousseau, Commanding First Division:
Headquarters Fourteenth Army Corps, Beech Grove, June 26, 1863
Order your regimental trains forward at once on the Manchester pike. Send one regiment to guard them. General Negley will send one brigade in addition to your regiment. You will move forward at daylight tomorrow with yous and General Brannan's division on Fairfield, taking with you your ammunition and headquarters trains. If the enemy does not oppose you to Fairfield, you will then move direct from Fairfield to Manchester, reaching the latter place, if possible, tomorrow night. General Negley will move in support of you with two brigades of his division.
By order of Major-General Thomas,
Geo. E. Flynt,
Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.
Major-General Thomas to Major-General Rousseau, Commanding First Division:
Headquarters Fourteenth Army Corps, June 24, 1863 - 11.30 p.m.
The general commanding directs you to hold your division in readiness to follow General Brannan, General Brannan has been ordered to march via Pan Handle Creek road.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
[Geo. E. Flynt,]
Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.
Major-General Rousseau, Commanding First Division to Major-General Thomas:
Headquarters First Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, Fairfield, June 27, 1863 - 11.45 a.m.
General: The head of the column is at Fairfield. Skirmishers thrown out beyond the town. The enemy, we think, went toward Tullahoma, though whether by Wartrace is very uncertain. The weight of evidence is that they took the Wartrace road, and it is said the wagon train took that road. Reports are contradictory as to the road taken by the enemy, evidently with a view of deception. An intelligent negro tells us that trains of cars left Wartrace this morning, carrying artillery. He also assures us that four brigades we pursued took the Wartrace road, in order to guard wagon trains from that point to Tullahoma. He says that the train consisted of 400 or 500 wagons. This statement is vouched for by several. He says there are no troops at Wartrace. He thinks the cars took off from Wartrace to Tullahoma this morning twenty five or thirty pieces. I send this negro to you. I can learn nothing further than the above.
Respectfully, &c.,
Lovell H. Rousseau,
Major-General.
Major-General Thomas to Major-General Rousseau, Commanding First Division:
Headquarters Fourteenth Army Corps, Crumpton's Creek, July 1, 1863
The general commanding directs you hold your command in readiness to move forward at any moment. The report this morning is that the rebels have left their boasted stronghold, Tullahoma, and gone to parts unknown. A reconnaissance has been ordered, the result of which will be made known in orders.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
[Geo. E. Flynt,]
Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.
Major-General Thomas to Major-General Rousseau, Commanding First Division:
Headquarters Fourteenth Army Corps, In the Field, July 4, 1863
You are directed by the major general commanding to select a suitable camp, and remain until further orders, as it has been announced from departmental headquarters that the pursuit is virtually ended. Send a detail of men in to repair the roads back to the Winchester and McMinnville road, or the road you passed over this morning, for the purpose of getting up supplies. It is probable we shall continue our march south as soon as we get our supplies replenished.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
[Geo. E. Flynt,]
Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.