OPERATIONS IN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. [CHAP.XII.

[Inclosure.]

PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the President of the Confederate States of America has made a requisition on the State of Mississippi for two regiments of volunteers, to serve for and during the continuance of the war, to be sent to Corinth, Miss., for the protection of the Mississippi Valley; and 3,000 volunteers to serve for and during the continuance of the war, to be received by independent companies; each company to be composed of 1 captain, 1 first lieutenant, 2 second lieutenants, 4 sergeants, 4 corporals, 2 musicians, and from 64 to 100 privates, to go immediately into camp of instruction, under the control of the War Department of the Confederate States. The President will assign competent officers to take charge of them, drill and discipline the men, and organize them into battalions or regiments, as he may prefer, and appoint field and staff officers: (Any company heretofore mustered into the State service for twelve months may volunteer under this call for and during the continuance of the war. It will not be a prerequisite in accepting these companies that they should be armed.) Therefore I, John J. Pettus, governor of the State of Mississippi, by virtue of authority vested in me by law, do hereby proclaim that volunteers for the service are desired and will be accepted as above specified.

Given under my hand and the great seal of the State affixed at the city of Jackson this 9th day of July, A.D. 1861.

JOHN J. PETTUS.

C.A. BROUGHER, Secretary of State.

GENERAL ORDERS, } BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS, No.2. Knoxville, Tenn., August 14, 1861.

I am authorized to receive into the service of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States volunteer infantry companies, to be formed in Lee and Scott Counties, Virginia, for the term of twelve months or during the war, the companies to furnish their own rifles, and to be employed in guarding the mountain passes in and on the borders of said counties and the county of Wise, in Virginia, and in other duty within said counties. Captains of companies making tenders will address me at Knoxville, and will receive further instructions.

F.K. ZOLLICOFFER, Brigadier-General, Commanding C.S. Army.

WAR DEPARTMENT, C.S.A.,

Richmond, August 15,1861.

Captain KENSEY JOHNS, Assistant Quartermaster, C.S. Army:

SIR: It is proposed by his excellency Isham G. Harris, the governor of Tennessee, to transfer to this Government the ordnance stores and quartermaster and commissary supplies provided by the State of Tennessee and in possession of her authorities, and you are hereby commissioned on behalf of this Government to receive the same and perfect the transfer.

You will proceed to Nashville and see Governor Harris upon the subject, and co-operate in the premises with the authorities of Tennessee. You will be careful to take all proper inventories of the articles received