event, General Maury will relieve Lieutenant-General Lee, and you will give him the needful instructions. Urge General E. K. Smith to prompt compliance.

JEFFN. DAVIS.

RICHMOND, July 20, 1864.

General BRAXTON BRAGG,

Columbus, Ga.:

Your dispatch of the 19th submitted. * If the statement in relation to the Nineteenth Corps be reliable, alarm in relation to Mobile must have been unfounded. Dispatch to you last night (direct to Montgomery to-day), to care of General Hood, Atlanta, directed you to urge prompt compliance on the part of General Smith. You can communicate to him as from me.

JEFFN. DAVIS.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 170.
Richmond, July 20, 1864.

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XVII. Major J. W. Young, quartermaster, &c., is assigned to duty as chief quartermaster of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

SAML. W. MELTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

[JULY 20, 1864. -For Bragg to Sale, in relation to Rousseau's operations, &c., see Vol. XXXVIII, Part V, p. 897.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FORRESTS' CAVALRY, Numbers 108.
Okolona, July 20, 1864.

XI. Lieutenant-Colonel McCulloch has been ordered to return with the two regiments now on Pontotoc and Okolona road, leaving a company of FIFTY men until to-morrow evening. This outpost will be relieved alternately by Brigadier-Generals Chalmers and Buford from their DIVISIONS, and arrange between themselves the time they shall remain on duty, General Buford sending a company to-morrow to relieve the one left there. It is recommended that two days' rations at least of forage and provisions be carried on horses when the companies leave camp. This outpost will be kept there until otherwise ordered. They will be instructed to report promptly any information obtained of any movements of enemy to these headquarters.

By command of Major-General Forrest:

CHARLES W. ANDERSON,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

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*See Vol. XXXVIII, Part V, p. 894.

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