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Page 496 KY., MID. AND E. TENN, N. ALA., AND SW. VA. Chapter XXXII.


SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE


Numbers 7. Tullahoma, January 13, 1863.

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VII. Cadets appointed to regiments are, by law, assigned there as schools of instructions, and will not be removed by commanders for any staff of general officers prohibited. They are boys and students, to be taught, not teachers of men, their superiors.

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By command of General Bragg:

GEORGE W. BENT,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,


Numbers 6. Tullahoma, January 14, 1863.

Brigadier General G. J. Pillow is relieved from duty in Hardee's corps, and is assigned to the supervision of the gathering of conscripts, securing volunteers, and arresting stragglers for the regiments in this department. He will report at these headquarters, and establish his office un make his requisitions for all that may be necessary in the way of personnel and material for the prompt and efficient discharge of the important duty assigned to him.

All officers and men detailed for duty in this branch of the service will report to Brigadier-General Pillow, and all reports from them will be made to him.

List of absentees from every regiment in the department will be promptly made out and forwarded to him.

By command of General Bragg:

GEORGE W. BENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

Numbers 8. Tullahoma, Tenn., January 14, 1863.

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VIII. Three officers and three competent men from each regiment in this army (not raised in territory now within the enemy's lines) will be detailed for the purpose of enrolling and bringing in conscripts. Commanding officers will immediately forward to these headquarters names of parties suitable for the purpose mentioned. When practicable, invalid and wounded officers and men will be detailed. Letters of instruction, &c., will be given at headquarters.

By command of General Bragg:

GEORGE W. BENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS WITHERS' DIVISION,

POLK'S CORPS, ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

Shelbyville, Ten., January 14, 1863.

The brigadier-general commanding has noticed, with surprise and regret, the continued disregard of existing orders relative to the pro


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