I wish you to command the first one, which will comprise the brigades of Sterling, Mercer, and De Fermoy, with Hand's riflemen and Hausegger's Germans and Forest's battery.

I shall accompany your column.

General Sullivan will take the second division, with Sargeant's and St.Clair's brigades, and Glover's Marblehead men, and Stark's New Hampshire riflemen.

The two columns will divide at Birmingham.

You will take the east, or inland road, and Sullivan that by the river.