Lee reported on the way with Virginia reenforcements.

In front of Louisville, fifty-two miles, McCook, with four brigades of about thirteen thousand, with four regiments to guard the railroad, at all times in danger.

Enemy along the railroad from Green River to Bowling Green, Nashville, and Clarksville.

Buckner, Hardee, Sidney Johnston, Folk, and Pillow, the two former in immediate command, the force as large as they want or can subsist, from twenty-five to thirty thousand.

Bowling Green strongly fortified.