This note is written on military telegraph paper is a secretarial copy addressed to Gen. J.J. Reynolds (not Maj. Gen. John F. Reynolds who was killed at Gettysburg). It has two creases from being folded and has slightly yellowed with age. Page is torn off at the top. Measures 5 ¼ x 3 ¾”.

Telegram reads, “Head Quarters, 11^th & 12^th Corps, Look-out Mountain, Nov, 24, 1862 (with 2 crossed out and a 3 written in). 6.40 o’clock, PM."

Maj Genl Reynolds-

I am all right for to night. In the morning I shall be short of Batteries, though I hope to have the road + the bridges in condition to enable me to bring forward some of mine, by the time I shall again require them. The enemy had felled trees across the Chattanooga road over the moun-tain + a slide in the road made it necessary to expend a good deal of labor upon it. From the dense fog to day I have not been able to learn much of the topography of Chattanooga Valley in my front. For this reason I suggest that the operations of tomorrow be suspended until the fog lifts- if it should not require too much detention. I request that Gen’l Smith will forward me the map of which he spoke a day or two since-

Maj Gen’l Hooker     [sm]

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