[Inclosure.]

OFFICE COMMANDANT OF POST, Blue Mountain, July 7, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel CHANDLER,

Commanding Eighth Alabama Cavalry, near Blue Mountain, Ala.:

SIR: My orders from General Pillow were to establish a courier- line and keep General S. D. Lee posted as to movements of the enemy. General S. D. Lee, by special telegram, ordered me to do the same. I see all dispatches by courier go to you or Colonel Livingston. It cuts off my power of doing as Generals Lee and Pillow ordered, and besides, there may be information in the dispatches that General S. D. Lee prefers you not knowing.

Yours, respectfully,

GEO. GOLDTHWAITE,

Captain, Commanding Post.

P. S. -This courier-line is intended for General Lee. Send me all the dispatches received, or copies of them, so I can send them to General S. D. Lee.

Yours,

GEO. GOLDTHWAITE,

Captain, &c.

[First indorsement.]

Respectfully referred to Lieutenant-Colonel Lary, commanding brigade.

JNO L. CHANDLER,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Eighth Alabama Cavalry.

[Second indorsement.]

HEADQUARTERS CLANTON'S BRIGADE, Near Blue Mountain, July 7, 1864.

Respectfully returned to Captain Goldthwaite.

As this brigade is not reporting either to Generals Lee or Pillow, the lieutenant-colonel commanding respectfully declines reporting this information to Captain G. unless he deems it necessary for him to be informed, and the lieutenant-colonel will judge of the necessity.

By order of Lieutenant-Colonel Lary, commanding brigade:

A. HYER,
Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

MOBILE, July 7, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General:

There are reports of preparations to attack Mobile by land and water. I hope my requisitions for ordnance stores heretofore made will be filled at once, and arrangements made to re-enforce me at the proper time.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General.

[First indorsement.]

Respectfully submitted to Colonel Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance.

JOHN W. RIELY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.