[DECEMBER 16, 1864.]

General WALTHALL:

If it be possible, under cover of the mist, get Reynolds out. It is important to check the force operating against left flank.

Respectfully,

ALEX. P. STEWART,

Lieutenant-General.

HEADQUARTERS STEWART'S CORPS, Granny White's Gap, December 16, 1864.

Major-General WALTHALL:

GENERAL: You will have everything in readiness to retire to-night,in accordance with circular order of to-bay. Further particulars will be furnished.

By order of Lieutenant-General Stewart:

W. D. GALE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS, In the Field, December 16, 1864-3.15 p. m.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS:

GENERAL: Your dispatch, saying you were fighting the enemy with one regiment on the Granny White pike, received. General Hood says you must hold that pike; put in your escort and every available man you can find.

Yours, respectfully,

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

MONTGOMERY, ALA., December 16, 1864.

Lieutenant General R. TAYLOR,

Meridian:

Seven hundred Yankee cavalry struck Mobile and Creat Northern Railroad at Escambita at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, and were opposite Pollard at 9 a. m. This I learn by special messenger sent yesterday after the wires ceased. Will hasten in that direction all troops in reach. I have difficulty about arms and ammunition.

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Major General D. H. Maury, Mobile.)

MONTGOMERY, ALA., December 16, 1864-11 a. m.

Lieutenant General R. TAYLOR,

Meridian:

Eight hundred enemy's cavalry and artillery two miles from Pollard at 2 o'clock this morning. Burned Big Escambia bridge. General Clanton has held them in check twenty-four hours. Our loss so far, twenty killed, wounded, and missing.

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Major General D. H. Maury, Mobile.)