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timbers for a pontoon road of the size of the pontoons constructed under your charge. If the necessary timbers can be procured, do you desire the pontoons to be constructed at Corinth or at Selma, and the officer under whose immediate supervision the boats were built at Atlanta can be spared to take charge of their construction now? General Taylor has been directed to forward all the pontoons to Corinth. General Beauregard also desires to be informed whether any duplicate railroad bridges have been constructed for the road between Atlanta and Chattanooga, and if so where they now are.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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TUSCUMBIA, ALA., November 2, 1864.

Major General N. B. FORREST,

Jackson, Tenn.:

General Beauregard directs that you will report at once to General Hood at Florence, Ala. He advances as soon as supplies reach him.

GEO. WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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TUSCUMBIA, ALA., November 2, 1864.

Major J. P. STRANGE,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Jackson, Tenn.:

Where is General Forrest? Roddey has been ordered to report to General Hood.

GEO. WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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TUSCUMBIA, ALA., November 2, 1864.

General R. TAYLOR,

Selma, Ala.:

Have you a pontoon train? If so, General Beauregard desires that you will send it to Corinth under charge of a proper officer. We need a train which will span a distance of 800 yards.

GEO. WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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TUSCUMBIA, ALA., November 2, 1864.

Lieutenant General R. TAYLOR,

Selma, Ala.:

Have you any heavy guns at Selma which can be used for the defense of the Tennessee River? If so, of what caliber? Are any 20-pounder or 30-pounder Parrotts fabricated at Selma?

GEO. WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SELMA, ALA., November 2, 1864.

Major General HOWELL COBB:

Department headquarters have been removed to this place.

E. S. BURFORD,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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