which you may fortify. He directs also that you blockade all the roads and crossings on Tallahatchie and Tippah as high up as Beck's Springs except those you fortify. He thinks the first and most important to be done is the work on Tippah to Beck's Springs from its mouth. He directs that you take every negro you can get your hands on to do the work as above indicated. He has telegraphed commandant of post at Grenada to proceed at once to the impressment of the negroes and the repairs, &c., of fortifications at Grenada and Graysport, and wishes you, if you can possibly do so, to run down to Grenada and give such further orders as may be necessary; also, to see that Mabry's command is at Grenada as ordered; if not, have it up at once; and have the impressment of hands and tools made and the work ordered executed as promptly as possible.

By command of Major-General Forrest:

CHAS. W. ANDERSON,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., FORREST'S CAVALRY, Numbers 104.
On the Road, August 4, 1864.

I. Colonel W. B. Wade, Eight Regiment Confederate Cavalry, is assigned temporarily to the command of the Second Brigade.

II. Captain W. H. Brand will report to Colonel Wade, commanding Second Brigade, for duty as acting assistant adjutant-general of that brigade.

By order of Brigadier-General Chalmers:

W. A. GOODMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MOBILE, August 4, 1864.

Honorable J. A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War:

Thirty-seven vessels have already assembled off Mobile Bar. A large force of infantry landed on Dauphin Island last night, and reported moving on Fort Gaines; a large force of enemy encamped at Holly Springs, Miss., last night. General A. J. Smith gone to Vicksburg.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 183.
Richmond, August 4, 1864.

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XLI. Brigadier General George B. Hodge, Provisional Army, C. S., is assigned to the command of the district south of the Homochitto River, in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, to relieve Brigadier General St. John R. Liddell, Provisional Army, C. S.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

SAML. W. MELTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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