[First indorsement.]

SEPTEMBER 16, 1864.

Respectfully referred to honorable Secretary of Treasury, with the request that, if consistent with his views, the instructions asked by General Taylor may be given.

JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War.

[Second indorsement.]

SEPTEMBER 16, 1864.

The honorable Secretary of War is referred to the accompanying letter* to J. W. Clapp, esq., agent Produce Loan Bureau. If in accordance with the honorable Secretary's views it will be transmitted at once. A reply is respectfully requested and the return of the letter to the agent.

G. A. TRENHOLM,

Secretary of the Treasury.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,
Lovejoy's Station, September 15, 1864.

General BRAGG:

I am very much gratified at the feeling now existing among the officers of this army. All mortified at their feeble efforts on the 31st ultimo. I think we will make a better fight the next time than we could have done any time since we left Resaca. Extra-duty lists being materially decreased.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

LOVEJOY'S STATION, GA., September 15, 1864.

Major General M. L. SMITH,

Chief Engineer, Macon:

General Hood desires that you should at once replace the teamsters of your pontoon train by negroes in your charge, leaving one white man specially selected to every ten wagons instructed with their charge, the teamsters to be ordered by you to their commands. He will soon be able to return the number of wagons taken from you for this purpose.

[A. P. MASON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.]

SEPTEMBER 15, 1864.

Major-General WHEELER,

Commanding Cavalry:

General Hood desires that you should move in this direction, in accordance with previous instructions, tearing up the railroad as you come between Chattanooga and Atlanta. He directs me to inform you that by next week the left flank of the army will rest on the Chatta-

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