GRENADA, August 26, 1864.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS,

Water Valley:

Send Buford's DIVISION to Oxford with Rice's battery. Send the other three batteries to this place. Take your DIVISION in neighborhood of Oakland. Captain Forrest and Captain Saunders are at Panola; give them orders. Send all unattached companies here. Send and arrest Mitchell and his men. He has no authority from me to raise companies.

N. B. FORREST,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST DIV., FORREST'S CAVALRY, Numbers 112.
Water Valley, Miss., August 26, 1864.

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VI. Colonel H. P. Mabry, commanding brigade, will prepare his command and move on to-morrow morning by slow stage to Grenada. He will carry his entire command, both mounted and dismounted, with him.

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X. This command will move in the morning for Oakland, Yalobusha County, making not more than fifteen miles a day. Colonel Wade's brigade will move at 7 o'clock, Colonel Neely's at 8.

By order of Brigadier-General Chalmers:

A. G. MILLS,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

MORROW'S PLANTATION, August 26, 1864.

General CHALMERS:

The last of the enemy crossed the Tallahatchie by 2 p. m. yesterday, leaving the bridge uninjured. My scouts now picket the bridge.

G. A. C. HOLT,

Colonel, Commanding Outpost.

HDQRS. DISTRICT OF CENTRAL AND NORTH ALABAMA,
Talladega, Ala., August 26, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE DEAS,

Chief of Staff, Hdqrs. Dept. of Ala., Miss., and E. La.,

Meridian, Miss.:

COLONEL: A telegram from Major-General Maury, urging me to send to Mobile at once all the troops that could be spared from my district, was received about midnight of the 24th instant. I immediately ordered to Mobile all the dismounted men of Armistead's brigade and all men having unserviceable horses. These are all the troops that could possibly be spared without leaving the district entirely unprotected. I have only two small brigades of cavalry (Clanton's and Armistead's) and two companies of artillery, and General Maury's order expressly excludes Clanton's brigade from its operation. All the officers and men accessible, amounting to an aggregate of about 180, were sent off this morning under charge of Captain Morrison, senior officer present, tem-