A copy is on file in the War Archives.
See also Floyd's report, _Id._, vol.v.pp.

146-148.] General Rosecrans found the country so difficult a one that he was in no little doubt as to the plan of campaign it was now best to follow.

It was out of the question to supply his column by wagon trains over the mountainous roads from Clarksburg, and the Kanawha River must therefore be made the line of communication with his base, which had to be transferred to Gallipolis.

In anticipation of this, I had accumulated supplies and ordnance stores at Gauley Bridge as much as possible with my small wagon trains, and had arranged for a larger depot at the head of steamboat navigation.

I was ready therefore to turn over the control of my supply lines to Rosecrans's officers of the quartermaster and commissary departments as soon as his wagon trains could be transferred.