TUPELO, May 14, 1864.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS,

Verona:

The assignment of Wickliffe is only temporary. Send any other good regiment from McCulloch's brigade.

W. N. M. OTEY,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION, FORREST'S CAVALRY,
Verona, Miss., May 14, 1864.

Colonel W. L. DUCKWORTH,

Seventh Tennessee Cavalry:

COLONEL: The brigadier-general commanding directs that you assume command of your own and Duff's regiments and move at once to Grenada in accordance with Special Orders, Numbers 57, from these headquarters. This movement is ordered in consequence of information that the enemy in small force had appeared at Vaughan's Station and were moving northward along the MISSISSIPPI Central Railroad. You will send proper officers in advance to provide forage for your command along the line of march and at Grenada, and scouts to ascertain the position of the enemy. Whenever they may be found you will endeavor to meet them and defend the country against them. If they are below Grenada you will co-operate with General Wirt Adams. You will communicate all information promptly to Major- General Lee, at Demopolis, and Major-General Forrest, at Tupelo.

I am, &c., your obedient servant,

W. A. GOODMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., FORREST'S CAVALRY, Numbers 57.
Verona, Miss., May 14, 1864.

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IX. The Seventh Tennessee Cavalry and Duff's Regiment MISSISSIPPI Cavalry will move immediately, via the nearest and best route, to Grenada. They will be supplied with three days' cooked rations and forty rounds ammunition to the man. If necessary arms and equipments will be transferred to them from other commands. They will move at the rate of thirty-five miles per day, or more rapidly if it should become worth will assume command of the two regiments.

By order of Brigadier-General Chalmers:

W. A. GOODMAN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

[MAY 14, 1864. -For Adams to Lee, reporting operations, &c., see Vol. XXXVIII, Part IV, p. 11.]