MOBILE, August 30, 1864.

General S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector General:

Enemy reported moving rapidly from North MISSISSIPPI to memphis; they say to re-enforce Sherman. Nothing new here. Raid preparing to come out from Vicksburg.

DABNEY H. MAURY,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY,
Grenada, August 30, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:

GENERAL: Accompanying you will find General Orders, Numbers 73, from these headquarters, organizing and designating the different brigades and DIVISION composing my command. * I most respectfully ask and recommended that the organizations as shown and the assignment to duty of the different offices may be made permanent. The permanent assignment of Colonels Rucker, McCulloch, and Bell to the command of brigades is made upon the efficiency and gallantry of those officers, all of whom have served faithfully in the respective positions they are assigned to, and I take pleasure in saying that upon all occasions I have found them fully competent to perform the duties developing upon them as brigade commanders. Hoping, general, that the organization as made by me may meet your approval, and the facts herein set forth concerning the officers mentioned above may have your consideration for permanent assignment and promotions,

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

N. B. FORREST,

Major-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY, Numbers 73.
Grenada, August 30, 1864.

I. The troops of this command will be organized and designated as follows:

Rucker's brigade, Colonel Edmund W. Rucker: Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, Colonel William L. Duckworth; Neely's regiment Tennessee cavalry, Colonel James J. Neely; Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry, Colonel Robert V. Richardson; Stewart's regiment Tennessee cavalry, Colonel Francis M. Stewart; Twenty-sixth Tennessee Battalion Cavalry (General Forrest's old regiment), Lieutenant Colonel David C. Kelley.

McCulloch's brigade, Colonel Robert McCulloch: Seventh MISSISSIPPI Cavalry (formerly First MISSISSIPPI Partisans), Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. Hyams, Jr. ; Second Missouri Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. McCulloch; Fifth MISSISSIPPI Cavalry, Major W. G. Henderson; Willis' Battalion Texas Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel Leonidas Willis; Eighth MISSISSIPPI Cavalry, Colonel William L. Duff; Eighteenth MISSISSIPPI Cavalry Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander H. Chalmers.

Lyon's brigade, Brigadier General Hylan B. Lyon: THIRD Kentucky Cavalry, Colonel Gustavus A. C. Holt; Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel A. R. Shacklett; Seventh Kentucky Cavalry, Colonel Edward Crossland; Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry, Colonel W. W. Faulkner.

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* See following.

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