HEADQUARTERS OF DISTRICT,
Columbus, Ky., May 12, 1864.
Col. S. G. HICKS,
Commanding, Paducah, Ky.:
COLONEL: Guerrillas, near Mayfield, took a part of a picket guard from Colonel Moore's command when it camped there for the night on the 7th instant. It the rebel citizens of this district have amongst them such forces for such purposes I shall look to rebel citizens for redress. In pursuance of this plan you will, immediately on receipt of this, detach a mounted force from your command, with orders to arrest some influential rebel sympathizers in the neighborhood in which these guerilla's are maintained and hold them as hostages for the safe return to Columbus or Paducah of the corporal and nine others, ten men in all, taken from Colonel Moore's command. I inclose a list of persons, some of whom will be sufficient, in all probability. After arresting them they may be paroled for three days. If in that time the men are not given up, confinement will follow.
Very respectfully, yours, &c.,
HENRY PRINCE,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
Source: Official Records, Series 1, Volume 39, Part 2.
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