HDQRS. DEPARTMENT AND ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
Big Shanty, June 11, 1864 – 11 p. m.
Major-General SHERMAN,
Commanding, &c.:
GENERAL: I send you a report just received from Brigadier-General Garrard.* Have you any instructions for him? If he cannot make headway against Wheeler and drive him and hold both the roads he speaks of, I think he had better move down the Marietta road and hold only the Big Shanty road, so as not to let the enemy get fairly between us and him.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAS. S. McPHERSON,
Major-General.
[Indorsement.]
Garrard must hold the old Alabama road and work east toward Bruch Mountain. We will to-morrow be able to send all of Blair’s column on the Big Shanty and Roswell Factory road. We must make the enemy spread out as much as possible on this his right flank.
SHERMAN.
* See Part II, p. 807.