DALTON, May 11, 1864-9.30 a. m.

General POLK, Rome:

Send all the troops you can to Resaca with dispatch. Go in person. The enemy are close upon it.

J. E. JOHNSTON,

General.

Received at Kingston, Ga., at 12 m., and orders given to Major-General Loring at same hour.

D. WEST,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

DALTON, May 11, 1864-10.45 a. m.

Brigadier-General CANTEY, Resaca:

Let the cavalry keep their present positions.

W. W. MACKALL,

Chief of Staff.

DALTON, May 11, 1864-11 a. m.

General CHEATHAM:

General Johnston directs you to withdraw your division from the line and move it down Sugar Valley road toward Dug Gap.

W. W. MACKALL,

Chief of Staff.

DALTON, May 11, 1864.

Lieutenant-General HARDEE:

From the reports of General Hood General Johnston has halted Hindman in Dalton, and Chearham's two brigades at the foot of the mountain opposite his late place in the line of battle, and wishers you to send orders to General Strahl to halt brigade till further orders on the Sugar Valley road, opposite Dug Gap, and put himself in communication with the officer in command of the gap, and assist him if the gap is attacked.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. W. MACKALL,

Chief of Staff.

KINGSTON, GA., May 11, 1864-1.30 p. m.

General JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON:

I dispatched you by Captain Hardee, who has just left on the passenger train. I follow immediately after on the train which takes this. General French's first brigade (Sears') should have left Blue Mountain in time to have been within a day's march of Rome to-night. Ector and Cockrell's should have followed at intervals of twelve hours each. General Ferguson should be in Rome by Friday night, and the other two cavalry brigades within twenty-four hours after. Unless otherwise ordered I shall employ them on my left flank.

I am, general, very respectfully,

L. POLK,

Lieutenant-General.