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835 Series I Volume XXXIX-II Serial 78 - Allatoona Part II

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY, Numbers 138.
Verona, September 13, 1864.

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IV. Brigadier General James R. Chalmers will proceed to Grenada and assume command of this department, including all State troops and reserve corps within the limits of this department, which are as follows: All that portion of the State of MISSISSIPPI north of the Southern Railroad and east of the MISSISSIPPI Central Railroad, thence north to Grenada, and WEST to the MISSISSIPPI River.

By command of Major-General Forrest:

J. P. STRANGE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

LOVEJOY'S STATION, GA., September 14, 1864 - 1. 20 p. m.

President Davis,

Richmond:

It will do much to increase the efficiency of this army to give them their pay now due. Urgent appeals have been made to the Quartermaster-General. Many of the troops have ten month's pay due them.

J. B. HOOD,

General.


HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,
September 14, 1864.

General BRAGG:

Wheeler has been forced on this side of the Tennessee River. Have ordered him to move in this direction, destroying railroad as he comes. Taylor informs me Forrest will start on his mission to- morrow. As Wheeler, from superior numbers, is compelled to cross south of Tennessee River I suggest that Forrest be ordered to operate between this point and Chattanooga. Wheeler, and I can re- enforce him with, will do the same.

J. B. HOOD,

General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 218.
Richmond, Va., September 14, 1864.

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VI. Brigadier General B. D. Fry, Provisional Army, C. S., is assigned to duty to relieve Brigadier General A. R. Wright, at Augusta, Ga., and Brigadier-General Wright, when relieved, will, in accordance with a previous order, proceed to headquarters Army of Tennessee, and report to General J. B. Hood, commanding, &c.

By command of the Secretary of War:

ED. A. PALFREY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Numbers 19.
In the Field, September 14, 1864.

Hereafter all the teams of this army will be driven by negroes, excepting ambulances and the brigade ordnance wagons. All soldiers


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