Organization of troops in the District of the Gulf, commanded by Major General Dabney H. Maury, August 3, 1864.

Higgins' Brigade.

Brigadier General EDWARD HIGGINS.

Local (Alabama) Defense Corps, Colonel Alexander W. Lampkin.

Artillery Battalion, Major Daniel Trueheart.

Bay Batteries, Colonel William E. Burnet.

City Redoubts, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Brown.

Patton's Brigade.

22nd Louisiana, Major Washington Marks.

State (Alabama) Reserve Troops (five companies), --- ---.

7th Alabama Cavalry, Colonel Joseph Hodgson.

15th Confederate Cavalry, Colonel Henry Maury.

Tobin's (Tennessee) battery, Captain Thomas F. Tobin.

Page's Brigade.

Brigadier General RICHARD L. Page .

21st Alabama, Colonel Charles D. Anderson.

7th Alabama Cavalry (detachment), Lieutenant Colonel Turner Clanton, Jr.

1st Alabama Artillery, Major James T. Gee.

1st Tennessee Artillery, Captain T. N. Johnston.

Company Engineer Troops.

Captain L. HUTCHINSON.

HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY,
Okolona, August 4, 1864.

Brigadier General JAMES R. CHALMERS,

Commanding First DIVISION:

GENERAL: I am instructed by the major-general commanding to say that you will impress all the negroes on the north side of Tallahatchie River to the number of 500, with axes, and such implements as they can get, to make fortifications at Grenada, Graysport, and Abbeville, and such other places as you may think necessary on the Tallahatchie River. You will blockade all fords on the Tallahatchie except those that you may think proper to fortify.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

CHAS. W. ANDERSON,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY,
Okolona, August 4, 1864.

Brigadier General JAMES R. CHALMERS,

Commanding First DIVISION of Cavalry:

GENERAL: I am directed by the major-general commanding to say that you will impress 250 negroes in the vicinity of Grenada to repair the fortifications at Grenada and Graysport, and to blockade all the crossings from Grenada to Graysport and all the roads except those