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

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concerning the place to which the rest of your division is to move will be sent you as soon as encampments have been selected.

Respectfully, general, your obedient servant,

D. H. POOLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Inclosure.]


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. HARDEE'S CORPS, ARMY OF TENN.,

Numbers 141. Chattanooga, Tenn, July 9, 1863.

Brigadier General B. R. Johnson will proceed, with his brigade, to London, on the Eawst Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and will take charge of the railroad brigades between that point and Chattanooga, placing sufficient guards at Each brigade, and erecting works at the most important. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation.

By command of Major-General Cleburne:

D. H. POOLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

KNOXVILLE, July 9, 1863.

General S. COOPER:

I have returned from Tullahoma with the re-enforcements I took to General Bragg.

S. B. BUCKNER,

Major-General.

JULY 9, 1863.

Major General S. B. BUCKNER:

General Jones leaves, with somewhat less than half his force, for the east. I inform you became it may effect your plans.

J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

KNOXVILLE, July 9, 1863.

Colonel [R. G.] FAIN,

Cumberland Gap:

Enemy's cavalry were at Gladesville yesterday. Watch gaps as far as Crank's Gap with you cavalry, and advise me here, and General Jackson at Jonesborough, of any movements in that fiction.

S. B. BUCKNER,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,


Numbers 148. Chattanooga, Tenn., July 11, 1863.

General Orders, Numbers 147, is revoked. Brigadier General J. K. Jackson is announced as commandant of the post of Chattanooga, Tenn.

By command of General Bragg:

H. W. WALTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


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