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ordered to report to you and will return with you; in the mean time you will proceed at once to collect at Oxford for General Gholson's command two days' rations for 1,600 men, and two days' forage of corn for 500 horses. You will also collect at Oxford two days' rations of corn for your own command, including the Eighteenth MISSISSIPPI Battalion, to supply them on the march to this place. If the railroad between Oxford and Abbeville is not in good running order you will have the necessary repairs made immediately.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. A. GOODMAN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
[MAY 22, 1864. -For Lee to Bragg and Forrest to Lee, in relation to movement of troops to Army of Tennessee, see Vol. XXXVIII, Part IV, p. 734.]
[MAY 22, 1864. -For W. H. Forrest to Chalmers, reporting skirmish near Mount Pleasant, Miss., see Part I, p. 17.]
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY,
No. 64. Tupelo, Miss., May 22, 1864.* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
II. Brigadier General S. J. Gholson is assigned to duty as commanding officer of the brigade of MISSISSIPPI State Troops recently turned over by that State to the Confederate States, and now commanded by Colonel John McGuirk. Brigadier-General Gholson will report for duty with his brigade to Brigadier General J. R. Chalmers, commanding First DIVISION.
By order of Major-General Forrest:
W. H. BRAND,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.
HDQRS. DEPT. OF WESTERN VA. AND EAST TENN.,
Abingdon, Va., May 23, 1864.General S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:
GENERAL: No order has reached me merging the Departments of East Tennessee and Western Virginia, though telegrams have reached me from you which would imply such had been done. I was directed by General Bragg to watch the enemy coming from Kanawha, and in co- operating with General Jenkins I found myself in the Department of Western Virginia. Now my command is in both departments, and I will continue to command both until further orders or the arrival of a superior officer.
Very respectfully,
W. E. JONES,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
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