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867 Series I Volume XXIII-II Serial 35 - Tullahoma Campaign Part II

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to our front. General Wheeler not yet arrived. Hurry the movement, as we have reports of the enemy's advance.

Have they moved back from Readyville?

BRAXTON BRAGG.

SHELBYVILLE, June 6, 1863.

General JOHN H. MORGAN:

Move all your force from Kentucky to Liberty by steady but not rapid marches.

JOS. WHEELER,

Major-General.

WARTRACE, June 6, 1863.

Major [D. G.] REED:

Order the elite corps to move toward Hoover's Gap as soon as possible.

JOS. WHEELER,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,


Numbers 130.
Tullahoma, Tenn., June 6, 1863.

Brigadier General A. P. Stewart, having been promoted to a major-general, will forthwith report to Lieutenant-General Hardee for assignment to duty.

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By command of General Bragg:

H. W. WALTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,


Numbers 131.
Tullahoma, Tenn., June 6, 1863.

All general courts-martial will adjourn until reassembled by special orders. Those convened, but not assembled, will not meet until further ordered. All officers detailed for such courts will rejoin their respective commands.

By command of General Bragg:

H. W. WALTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Will General Polk please send this order to the courts in his corps? The order was made too late to permit me to send copies to them by courier of to-day.)

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS HARDEE'S CORPS,


Numbers 20.
Wartrace, Tenn., June 6, 1863.

I. Major General A. P. Stewart, having reported at these headquarters, in compliance with General Orders, Numbers 130, dated Headquarters Army of Tennessee, June 6, 1863, is assigned to the command of the division composed of the following brigades, to wit: Johnson's, Bate's, Brown's, and Clayton's. The division will be know as Stewart's division.


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