him. If possible, 3,000 negroes should be kept at work here; I shall not be able to get any more from Alabama until after harvest. Farragut is in Pensacola still with a large fleet.

Respectfully, colonel, your obedient servant,

DABNEY H. MAURY,

Major-General, Commanding.

[APRIL 16, 1864.-For Taylor (T. H.) to Polk, about affairs in East Louisiana, see Vol. XXXIV, Part III.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE,

Numbers 89. Richmond, April 16, 1864.

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XXXIX. Brigadier General John S. Williams, Provisional Army, C. S., is relieved from duty in the Department of East Tennessee, and will proceed to Dalton, Ga., and report to General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding, &c., for assignment to the brigade of Kentucky cavalry now commanded by Colonel J. W. Grigsby, of Sixth Regiment Kentucky Cavalry.

XL. The First,* Fifty-fourth, and Fifty-seventh Regiments Georgia Volunteers will proceed by railroad, under the command of Brigadier General H. W. Mercer, to Dalton, Ga., and report to General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding, &c., to relieve the Fifth, Forty-seventh, and Fifty-fifth Regiments Georgia Volunteers.

The last-named regiments, under the command of Brigadier General J. K. Jackson, will proceed by railroad to Savannah, Ga., as they are successively relieved.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

ORDNANCE OFFICE,

Dalton, April 16, 1864.

Brigadier General W. W. MACKALL,

Chief of Staff, Army of Tennessee, Dalton, Ga.:

GENERAL: The requisition for supplies of ordnance and ordnance stores from corps commanded by Lieutenant-General Hardee, transmitted through headquarters Army of Tennessee, is received. I have the honor to report:

Total arms in the corps, as per report of 16th instant... 17,643

Effective strength of the corps per last report.......... 16,941

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Surplus of arms in corps................................. 702

Required as per requisition.............................. 457

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Excess of arms over effective men........................ 1,159

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Total number rounds of ammunition in the corps is........ 1,323,455

Required as per requisition.............................. 77,000

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Total....................................................1,400,455

*So much of order as relates to First Georgia Volunteers was revoked April 28, 1864.