[Excerpts from "The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of Official
Records of the Union and Confederate Armies", Series I, Vo. 16,
Part 2- Correspondence, etc., War Dept., 1886]
[transcribed by Mark Murphy, 2 Nov 2001]

p. 233

Columbia, (July) 30, 1862.
Col. J.B. Fry:
Anderson's guerrilla party burned the depot at Culleoka last night 
and robbed Dr. Thompson of $650.
Jas. S. Negley,
Brigadier-General.
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Col. J.B. Fry:
Reports from negroes and Union citizens indicate an early attack by
the guerrillas upon the weak posts along this line.  A party from
Hickman, numbering over 100, came to our stock pasture last night,
4 miles distant, and drove off 50 animals.  The country is swarming
with guerrillas.  West of this they have grown exceedingly bold since
I have been deprived of the means of pursuing them.  I am just 
informed that some officers stopped the building of the stockades
according to my directions and ordered them to be built otherwise.  If
any officer has the right to change my orders without informing me,
it of course relieves me from responsibility.
Jas. S. Negley.

p. 262
Columbia, August 4, 1862.
Col. J.B. Fry:
Two companies Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers at Elk River, two
companies at Pulaski, three companies at Columbia, one company south
end of Duck River Railroad Bridge, two companies just relieved by
Seventy-fourth Ohio, marching to Columbia; one company First Kentucky
Cavalry at Columbia.  Will order Wolford's cavalry at Reynolds', 
except one more company here, and two sections of Konkle's battery
to proceed to Murfreesborough immediately.
Jas. S. Negley,
General.
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Columbia, August 4, (1862).
Col. J.B. Fry:
As Colonel McCook and other detachments along the railroad have been
acting under your orders direct and receiving no reply to my inquiry
whether my authority extended over all the troops along the line will
explain the neglect at Culleoka.  Understanding from your late orders
that the railroad is in my care from Nashville to Tennessee River, 
shall immediately exercise my usual caution.
Jas. S. Negely,
Brigadier-General.
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p. 265

Headquarters,
Huntsville, August 5, 1862.
General Negley, Columbia:
The Culleoka trestle, 1,000 feet long, near Pleasant Grove Station,
about 10 miles south of Columbia, is not guarded.  Send a company to
each end of the Culleoka trestle at once, with orders in regard to
stockades, &c.  You must guard the road between Pulaski and Nashville.
It is not necessary to keep two companies at Franklin.
James B. Fry.
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