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ed to enter nor occupy any part of Kentucky for the future. In view of the facts thus submitted, I can not but think the world at large will find it difficult to appreciate the profound astonishment with which you say the people of Kentucky received the intelligence of the occupation of this place. I have the honor to be, respectfully, Your obedient servant, etc., Leonidas Polk, Major-General commanding. Letter from General Polk to Governor Magoffin. Columbus, Kentucky, September 3, 1861. Governor Magoffin, Frankfort, Kentucky. I should have dispatched to you immediately, as the troops under my command took possession of this position, the very few words I addressed to the people here; but my duties since that time have so preoccupied me, that I have but now the first leisure moment to communicate with you. It will be sufficient for me to inform you (as my short address herewith will do) that I had information, on which I could rely, that the Federal forces intended