TUPELO, MISS., January 20, 1865.

Colonel GEORGE WILLIAM BRENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Montgomery, Ala.:

Lee's and Cheatham's corps, about 15,000 strong, with six batteries, have been ordered to Augusta. Transportation and supplies on the way have been ordered. Thirty days' supplies must be collected for them in Augusta and at Thomson and Berzelia, on Georgia Railroad.

G. T. BEAUREGARD.

TUPELO, January 20, 1865. (Received 3 o'clock 24th.)

Honorable J. A. SEDDON:

By direction of General Beauregard, Lee's and Cheatham's corps are moving to Georgia; Stewart's remains here. What disposition will be made of the officers of the general staff regularly assigned to duty at army headquarters by orders from the War Department?

J. B. HOOD,

General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE,

No. 16. Richmond, Va., January 20, 1865.

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XXVII. Brigadier General W. T. Wofford, Provisional Army, C. S., is hereby assigned to the command of the Reserve Forces of Northern Georgia, and will report to Major General Howell Cobb, commanding, &c., Macon, Ga.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

VERONA, January 20, 1865.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS:

You will retain Holman's, DeMoss', Biffle's, and Russell's regiments, and send Wheeler's and the Fourth Tennessee Regiment and all other parts of regiments and detachments whose command may be in Georgia.

N. B. FORREST,

Major-General.

HDQRS. DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI AND EAST LOUISIANA,
Jackson, January 20, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel E. SURGET,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Meridian, Miss.:

COLONEL: Your dispatch of last evening in received. There is no doubt that a large force of the enemy is below from Natchez to New Orleans. It seems probable from the indications reported that a column of cavalry, at least, will attempt to march from the Mississippi River eastwardly. An expedition to Red River is much spoken of along the river. I had already ordered Griffith to move with his regiment to