LOVEJOY'S STATION, GA., September 11, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel R. TAYLOR,

Mobile:

Why is no effort being made to cross your troops? Hasten Forrest and get him to operating upon Sherman's communications. It is all- important.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS HARDEE'S CORPS, Numbers 8.
September 12, 1864.

I. Colonel E. Capers, Twenty-fourth South Carolina Regiment, will relieve Major Wilder, [Sixth] Tennessee, in command of the post of Jonesborough. The Twenty-fourth South Carolina will constitute the provost guard, and the provost guard of Cheatham's DIVISION will be relieved and return to the DIVISION.

By order of Lieutenant-General Hardee:

T. B. ROY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

MOBILE, September 12, 1864.

General B. BRAGG:

MISSISSIPPI River scouts continue to report troops going up the river. A few troops also reported to have recently left front of Mobile for New Orleans. Defenses of Mobile rapidly approaching completion under energetic administration of Major-General Gardner. Some additional 30-pounder Parrotts or 24-pounder rifled guns required for its land defenses. I think no immediate apprehension need be felt about Mobile. Am using every exertion to make Forrest's movements as formidable as my limited resources will permit.

R. TAYLOR,

Lieutenant-General.

HDQRS. CHALMERS' DIVISION, FORREST'S CAVALRY,
West Point, Miss., September 12, 1864.

Colonel F. M. STEWART, Fifteenth Tennessee Cavalry; Colonel J. U. GREEN,

Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry; Colonel W. L. DUCKWORTH, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry; Colonel J. J. NEELY, Fourteenth Tennessee Cavalry; Major P. T. ALLIN, Twenty-sixth [Tennessee] Battalion.

GENTLEMAN: I am directed by Brigadier-General Chalmers to say to you, in reply to your note of this morning, that by paragraph I of General Orders, Numbers 73, from headquarters Forrest's Cavalry, dated Grenada, August 30, 1864, the regiments under your respective commands were organized into a brigade, "to be designated as Rucker's brigade," and by paragraph II of the same order Colonel E. W. Rucker was assigned permanently to the command of that brigade. Colonel Rucker having reported for duty, you will obey promptly all orders issued by or coming through him.

A copy of the order offered to above was sent some days since from these headquarters to Colonel Neely, who was them commanding your brigade, and it was his duty to have issued copies of it promptly to the different regiments under his command, but the general learns with re-