[First indorsement.]

AUGUST 9, 1864.

SECRETARY OF WAR:

This private letter will be show to you by Colonel Johnston, aide- de-camp. The want of a Kentucky brigadier may be met by the assignment of General Cosby.

J. D.

[Second indorsement.]

AUGUST 10, 1864.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL:

Assign Brigadier-General Cosby to the command of the brigade formerly commanded by General Hodge; and with this view order him to report to General Morgan.

J. A. S.,

Secretary.

COLUMBUS, August 3, 1864.

Colonel J. B. SALE,

Richmond:

Shall leave this evening for Charleston. The route and capture of the raiders by our cavalry establishes a new era. I have had no dispatch from Richmond for five days.

BRAXTON BRAGG.

[NOTE. - Received in War Records Office too late for insertion in Vol. XXXVIII, Part V.]

Abstract from of the army in the District of the Gulf, Major General Dabney H. Maury commanding, for August 3, 1864; headquarters Mobile, Ala.

Present for duty.

Command. Officer Men. Effecti Aggreg

s. ve ate

total presen

present t.

.

District staff. 13 . . . . . . 13

Higgins' brigade:

Artillery. 44 427 454 537

Local Defense Corps. 36 353 369 504

Total. 80 780 823 1. 041

Page's brigade:

Artillery. 68 803 959 1. 129

Cavalry. 8 108 120 139

Total. 76 911 1. 079 1. 268

Colonel Patton's command. 57 763 794 924

Company engineer troops. 3 54 54 60

Grant total. 229 2. 508 2. 750 3. 306

Command. Aggrega Pieces Aggreg

te of ate

present field presen

and artille t and

absent. ry. absent

last

return

.

District staff. 13 . . . 13

Higgins' brigade:

Artillery. 820 6 761

Local Defense Corps. 804 . . . 1. 078

Total. 1. 624 6 1. 839

Page's brigade:

Artillery. 1. 379 . . . 1. 375

Cavalry. 193 . . . 200

Total. 1. 572 . . . 1. 575

Colonel Patton's command. 1. 391 . . . 901

Company engineer troops. 105 . . . 104

Grant total. 4. 705 6 4. 432

Fire brigade, composed of 276 men, disbanded and conscripted, by order of War Department.

Colonel Patton's command re-enforced by 388 Alabama State Reserve Troops.

Colonel Maury's regiment, about 600 effectives, has been sent to meet a raid of the enemy from Pensacola. No report of it has been received; it is therefore not incorporated in this return.