SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 139.
Richmond, June 15, 1864.

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XII. Major James M. Quinlan, commissary of subsistence, on duty as post commissary at Columbus, Miss., will turn over all stores and property in his possession to Major R. H. Cuney, commissary of subsistence, chief purchasing commissary at Columbus, Miss., and will report by letter of Major W. H. Dameron, chief commissary of subsistence for Mississippi, for assignment to duty at Okolona, Miss., to relieve Captain B. J. Martin, assistant commissary of subsistence. Captain Martin, on being relieved, will report to Major Dameron, at Meridian, for assignment to duty.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

BLUE MOUNTAIN, June 15, 1864.

Colonel MEAD:

I am now at this place in command of all the cavalry of North Alabama. Your command belongs to my organization by orders of Government. I wish you to bring it out and report here, that you men may be armed, equipped, and mustered into the service. Owing to the great scarcity of supplies you cannot keep in any one position until it is all ready. You had better send your men out in companies or squads of any size. Here their wants can be supplies until you come yourself. You shall have all the men you send out to me. As soon as I am strong enough to go forward I shall proceed north, cross the river, and deliver your people. Unless your men come out and help to bring there the army we can never go forward and relieve the country of the river. Your people know me and know that they can depend on what I say.

Your friend,

GID. J. PILLOW,

Brigadier-General, C. S. Army.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 140.
Richmond, June 16, 1864.

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XXII. Major F. P. Beck, quartermaster, will proceed without delay to Meridian, Miss., and report to Major General S. D. Lee, commanding, &c., for assignment to duty with Brigadier General Wirt Adams' brigade.

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XXVII. Captain B. F. Bruton, assistant quartermaster, FIFTY-ninth Georgia Volunteers, will relieve Major J. Livingston as post quartermaster at Athens, Ga. Major Livingston, on being relieved, will report to General Joseph E. Johnson for assignment to duty with the cavalry brigade commanded by Colonel Thomas Harrison, vice Major C. W. Gassett, quartermaster, who will be ordered elsewhere.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.