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List of general officers in the armies under General Johnston's command, November 27, 1862.

LIEUTENANT-GENERALS.

E. Kirby Smith.

Leonidas Polk.

W. J. Hardee.

John C. Pemberton.

MAJOR-GENERALS.

1. Earl Van Dorn.

2. Mansfield Lovell.

3. Sterling Price.

4. B. F. Cheatham.

5. J. P. McCown.

6. J. C. Breckinridge.

7. Richard Taylor.

8. S. B. Buckner.

9. Jones M. Withers.

10. C. L. Stevenson.

11. D. H. Maury.

12. M. L. Smith.

BRIGADIER-GENERALS.

1. Charles Clark.

2. D. S. Donelson.

3. Danies Ruggles.

4. A. G. Blanchard.

5. W. H. Carroll.

6. A. P. Stewart.

7. Henry Heth.

8. S. A. M. Wood.

9. Johnson K. Dancan.

10. J. K. Jackson.

11. B. R. Johnson.

12. J. P. Anderson.

13. J. R. Chalmers.

14. W. W. Mackall.

15. Albert Rust.

16. P. R. Cleburne.

17. Samuel B. Maxey.

18. J. E. Slaughter.

19. Seth M. Barton.

20. John S. Bowen.

21. B. H. Helm.

22. Franklin Gardner.

23. W. N. R. Beall.

24. William Preston.

25. D. W. Adams.

26. J. C. Moore.

27. St. J. R. Liddell.

28. N. B. Forrest.

29. M. E. Green.

30. E. D. Tracy.

31. M. D. Ector.

32. John Gregg.

33. J. C. Brown.

34. W. E. Baldwin.

35. J. C. Vaughn.

36. William B. Bate.

37. Preston Smith.

38. Joseph Wheeler.

39. James E. Rains.

40. E. McNair.

41. T. H. Tayler.

42. W. G. M. Davies.

43. A. Gracie, jr.

44. W. R. Boggs.

45. S. D. Lee.

46. John Pegram.

47. John A. Wharton.

ED. A. PALFREY,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

RICHARD, November 28, 1862.

Lieutenant-General HOLMES,

Little Rock, via Vicksburg:

General Pemberton on 27th reports a considerable force from Helena is moving down the river in boats, and an enemy advancing in his front. Other information is that an attack on Vicksburg is threatened.*

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*This paragraph telegraphed also to General Bragg at Tullahoma.

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