HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WESTERN VA. AND EAST TENN., Abingdon, Va., June 30, 1864.

Colonel W. M. BRADFORD,
Commanding Cavalry, near Bristol, Tenn.:

COLONEL: The brigadier-general commanding directs that you will remain where you are for the present. By instructions from General Lee he is directed to collect all the available troops in this region to protect the salt works, watch the movements of the enemy, and defend the country.

Very respectfully,

J. L. SANDFORD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WESTERN VA. AND EAST TENN., Abingdon, Va., June 30, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel V. A. WITCHER,
Commanding Thirty-fourth Virginia Battalion:

COLONEL: The brigadier-general commanding directs that you will send a scout as far down as Prestonburg, in Kentucky, with instructions to keep you constantly advised of the movements of the enemy from that quarter. If any opportunity arises for a movement toward Northwestern Virginia he promises you the advance.

Very respectfully,

J. L. SANDFORD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY, Tupelo, June 30, 1864.

Major WILLIAM ELLIOTT,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Meridian, Miss.:

MAJOR: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of dispatch for Major-General Washburn. * Will forward it to-day by flag of truce to La Grange. I am gratified to know that my reply+ met the approval of the lieutenant-general commanding.

I am, very respectfully, yours, &c.,

N. B. FORREST,

Major-General.

TUPELO, June 30, 1864.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS,

Verona:

You will send up all your dismounted [men] this evening with [En-] field or Austrian rifles, with forty rounds of ammunition to the man. Send one six-mule wagon, with cooking utensils, under proper officer.

N. B. FORREST,

Major-General.

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*See Vol. XXXII, Part I, p. 559.

+I bid, p. 590.

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