MERIDIAN, MISS., August 21, 1864.

Governor CHARLES CLARK,

Macon, Miss.:

Do your troops need anything more than my orders of yesterday provide for? I shall probably return to Mobile this evening at 5 o'clock. Our forces attacked Memphis this morning at 5 o'clock. Enemy advancing slowly on Oxford. Roads heavy; rivers rising.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General, Commanding.

MERIDIAN, MISS., August 21, 1864.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS,

Oxford, Miss.:

In view of your report of enemy's movements, your resolution to fall back seems proper. Try and save telegraph wire, if possible. Note hour of sending telegrams.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS,
Springdale, August 21, 1864.

Major-General MAURY,

Mobile:

Our ambulances could scarcely cross Yockeney this evening, and could not now. Enemy in Oxford. I have scouts with telegraph instruments three miles this side.

JAS. R. CHALMERS,

Brigadier-General.

Troops in the District of Central and Northern Alabama, commanded by Brigadier General Daniel W. Adams, C. S. Army, August 21, 1864.

Clanton's Brigade.

Brigadier General JAMES H. CLANTON.

6th Alabama Cavalry, Colonel Charles H. Colvin.

Livingston's (Alabama) Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Henry J. Livingston.

Clanton's (Alabama) Battery.

Armistead's Brigade.

Colonel CHARLES P. BALL.

Armistead's (Mississippi) Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Philip B. Spence.

Ball's (Alabama) Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel D. Hatch.

Lewis' (Alabama) Battalion, Major William V. Harrell.

Charpentier's (Alabama) battery, Captain Stephen Charpentier.

Selma.

Colonel Thomas H. ROSSER.

Talladega.

Major W. T. WALTHALL.

Montgomery.

Major WALTER JONES.