To Andrew Johnson from RH Milroy Oct 28 1864

              Hd. qt. Dept. N.&C.   R.R.
 
Tullahoma, Tenn.
 
Oct. 28, 1864

 
Governor,
 
	I have the honor to acknowledge  
the receipt of a communication by your  
order from Capt. E. Richards A.A.S. 
relative to the forces at Shelbyville 
organizing under the command of  Capt.  
Worther and seeming rather to object  
to (stricken - these forces being under my) my order  
to Capt. Worther to report to me for duty. 
I rec’d an order from Maj. General Rousseau 
some weeks ago directing me to take charge  
of the forces at Shelbyville (stricken -among others)  
as part of my command for the defense of  
the N.&C.  R.R. at that time a portion  
of the 2nd Ky. Cav. was stationed there & 
as Shelbyville is near this place & in the  
vicinity of the R. R. it seems evidently? 
proper that the forces then  should be  
subject to duty in this Comd. & to the control 
of the a superior officer for the purposes 
of discipline reports ect. I can assure your  
Excellency  that I have never had any intention