January 7, 1863

January 7, 1863

Jackson, January 7, 1863.

To the President, Richmond:

General Bragg telegraphs from Winchester that the enemy did not follow in force. I regret his falling back so
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far. He wants twenty thousand more men to secure East Tennessee. Can any large part of it be furnished? E. K. Smith's troops here might be spared for a few weeks, unless Sherman reappears. One of Grant's divisions is at Humboldt. Which is most valuable, Tennessee or the Mississippi?

J. E. Johnston, General.