13, 14. Authority given by General Pillow to Lieutenants Milliken and Simmons to raise companies and receive "absentees from the army. "

15. Report of quartermaster on duty in Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.

16. List of officers serving on the staff of Major General S. D. Lee.

[First indorsement.]

HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES,
June 16, 1864.

Respectfully referred to the Adjutant and Inspector General.

Many parts of this valuable report should receive prompt attention; it is creditable to the efficient officer who makes it.

BRAXTON BRAGG,

General.

[Second indorsement.]

FEBRUARY 28, 1865.

Returned to Secretary of War.

J. D.

[THIRD indorsement.]

Get the papers which accompanied this report.

S. C.

[Fourth indorsement.]

MARCH 1, 1865.

No accompanying papers received at War Office.

R. G. H. K[EAN.]

BALDWYN, June 10, 1864-10 a. m.

Major-General LEE,

Okolona:

The enemy are advancing directly to this place. Johnson's brigade is here. Buford's DIVISION and Rucker's brigade with two batteries are moving up and will be here by 12 o'clock. Our pickets have already commenced firing.

N. B. FORREST,

Major-General.

I have signed this for the general, who directed it send down by the train; he has moved out himself.

Respectfully,

CHAS. W. ANDERSON,

Aide-de-Camp.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, &C,
Oxford, Ala., June 10, 1864.

Major P. ELLIS, Jr.,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Meridian, Miss.:

MAJOR: Inclosed you will please find for General Lee's consideration a copy of the orders of Secretary of War. * This order was dictated by the President himself in presence of the Tennessee senators.

General Lee will perceive from it that I am entitled to the four regiments WEST Tennessee troops recently organized into a brigade by General

*Not found.