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co-operate with you. On your return from your present expedition, or before, should the necessity arise, he and all the rest of your command, in whatever portion of the department, will be ordered to report to you. On your return also the commander of any district in which you may find yourself will be instructed to furnish your troops with whatever they require, you reporting direct to these headquarters. The arms for which you telegraphed were immediately forwarded and I hope have been received.
Very respectfully, general, your obedient servant,
R. TAYLOR,
Lieutenant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY,
Nine miles north of Athens, September 25, 1864.Lieutenant General R. TAYLOR,
Commanding Dept. of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana:
GENERAL: I would respectfully suggest that you send a command to Corinth for the purpose of protecting the railroad and other prisoners which I expect to send you. Will leave in the morning for Elkton and Pulaski.
Respectfully,
N. B. FORREST,
Major-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF THE GULF, Numbers 269.
Mobile, September 25, 1864.* * * * * * *
V. Colonel Joseph Hodgson will proceed forthwith by rail with whatever of his regiment he may have to Verona, Miss., and report to Brigadier-General Chalmers. Quartermaster will furnish transportation.
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By command of Major General Dabney H. Maury:
D. F. HOLLAND,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 228.
Richmond, Va., September 26, 1864.* * * * * * *
XIV. Brigadier General H. B. Lyon, Provisional Army, C. S., is assigned to the command of the department lately created in the State of Kentucky, and will report accordingly.
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By command of the Secretary of War:
JNO WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
OFFICE INSP. FIELD TRANSPORTATION, ARMY OF TENN.,
September 26, 1864.
Colonel A. H. COLE, Chief Inspector Transportation:
COLONEL: Your letter from Macon of 21st of September reached me to-day. Major Beall had already gone to Macon, to which point I for-
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