to Major General John H. Forney for assignment: Major S. Croom, assistant adjutant-general; Major H. W. Williams, quartermaster; Surg. J. C. Nidelet, Provisional Army, C. S.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO WITHERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF ALA., MISS., AND E. LA.,

No. 14. Meridian, Miss., May 24, 1864.

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VI. Captain T. L. Maxwell, acting commissary of subsistence, will report to Brigadier-General Chalmers for assignment to temporary duty with Brigadier-General Gholson's brigade, at Columbus, Miss.

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By command of Major-General Lee:

WM. ELLIOTT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MERIDIAN, MISS., May 24, 1864.

Major-General FORREST,

Tupelo:

I wish a sufficient force left at Corinth to protect the railroad from raids and enable the cars to supply the destitute families in that vicinity.

S. D. LEE,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY,

No. 47. Tupelo, May 24, 1864.

I. The Seventh Tennessee Regiment, Colonel Duckworth, the Nineteenth MISSISSIPPI Regiment, Colonel Duff, and the Eighteenth MISSISSIPPI Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmers, will hereafter be known as the Sixth Brigade, and will report for duty to Colonel E. W. Rucker, who will assume command of it. Colonel Rucker will act under verbal instructions from these headquarters.

II. Captain J. C. Thrall, with his battery, will immediately report for duty to Colonel Rucker, to whose brigade it is assigned.

By order of Major-General Forrest:

W. H. BRAND,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.