SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 171.
Richmond, July 21, 1864.

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XVIII. Colonel Edward Dillon, Provisional Army, C. S., is assigned to the command of the Second Regiment MISSISSIPPI Cavalry, and will report accordingly.

XIX. Colonel D. Gober, of the SIXTEENTH Regiment Louisiana Volunteers, is temporarily assigned to duty in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, and will report to General S. D. Lee, commanding, &c.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

SAML. W. MELTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

COLUMBUS, July 22, 1864.

General S. COOPER:

I have assigned Major-General Withers temporarily to the command of troops for the protection of the city of Montgomery and WEST Point railroad. The command will consist of two brigades, one reserves, the other the organization recently under Pillow. For these he and [the] lieutenant-general recommends the appointment as brigadier- general of Majs. B. M. Thomas and J. R. B. Burtwell, both graduates of WEST Point. I concur, knowing them to be excellent soldiers.

BRAXTON BRAGG,

General.

COLUMBUS, GA., July 22, 1864.

Colonel J. B. SALE, Richmond:

After executing the President's orders of 20th, received to-day, and regulating matters, here, I shall return via Augusta, Greensborough, and Raleigh, starting to-morrow, unless detained by further orders or current events. The prominent men here have called, to assure of a cordial support of the recent messages.

BRAXTON BRAGG.

MONTGOMERY, July 22, 1864.

Brigadier-General LIDDELL:

Send following dispatch across the MISSISSIPPI by a reliable officer, with instructions to deliver it either to Generals Smith, Taylor, Walker, or Polignac:

COLUMBUS, GA., July 22, 1864.

Lieutenant General S. D. LEE:

Inform General E. K. Smith that the President orders a prompt movement of Lieutenant-General Taylor and the infantry of his corps to cross the Mississippi. Such other infantry as can be spared by General Smith will follow as soon as possible General Taylor on reaching this side of the MISSISSIPPI will assume command of the department. *

BRAXTON BRAGG.

S. D. LEE,

Lieutenant-General.

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*For Lee to Hood, relative to this order, see Vol. XXXVIII, Part V, p. 902.

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