MOBILE, June 20, 1864. (Received 21st.)

General S. COOPER:

Farragut's fleet been detained for the last week. It apparently assembled for defensive purposes against the Tennessee.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., FORREST'S CAVALRY, Numbers 74.
Columbus, Miss., June 21, 1864.

I. Lieutenant-Colonel McCulloch, commanding Second Regiment Missouri Cavalry, will move with his regiment to Abbeville to observe the movements of the enemy in that quarter. The regiment will encamp at Abbeville, an scouts will be sent as far as Byhalia, and in the direction of Memphis and other points on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. All information of the movements of the enemy will be sent as far as Byhalia, and in the direction of Memphis and other points on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. All information of the movements of the enemy will be forwarded promptly by telegraph from Holly Springs, via Okolona, to these headquarters at Aberdeen. If the enemy advance, Colonel McCulloch will harass them as much as possible, and if compelled to retire before them will rejoin the brigade.

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W. A. GOODMAN,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF W. VA., AND E. TENN., Numbers 1.
Abingdon, Va., June 22, 1864.

I hereby assume command of the Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee.

JNO H. MORGAN,

Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WESTERN VA. AND EAST TENN., Abingdon, Va., June 22, 1864.

Colonel H. L. GILTNER,
Commanding Morgan's DIVISION:

COLONEL: The brigadier-general commanding directs that you will concentrate all the men of the First Brigade in the Rich Valley, in Washington Country, reporting its location as soon as established. The men of the Second Brigade will be concentrated in the vicinity of Liberty Hill, in Tazewell Country. You will make a detail from the Second Brigade and order them to picket and scout the approaches toward the Louisa Fork of the Sandy. Let the pickets be thrown well forward.

J. L. SANDFORD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MERIDIAN, June 22, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General:

A formidable expedition is organizing under A. J. Smith against this department to repair the disaster of Sturgis. The force at Memphis and

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