HDQRS. THIRTEENTH A. S., DEPT. OF THE TENN.
Holly Springs, Miss., December 25, 1862.
COMMANDING OFFICER MEMPHIS, TENN.:
Inclosed find communication for General J. A. McClernand,*
which you will deliver to him if he be at Memphis. If he has
gone down the river you will please forward it to him. The
original letter was sent to the commanding officer at Cairo,
with instructions to deliver it to General McClernand if he
had not already passed that point going south, and if he had
to send it to him at Memphis. Communication was cut off north
and it did not probably reach him.
By order of Major General U. S. Grant:
JNO. S. RAWLINS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.