GRENADA, MISS., September 26, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER FORCES AT WEST POINT, MISS.:

Have you force enough to send to Cherokee for 1,300 prisoners captured by General Forrest? Answer immediately.

JAS. R. CHALMERS,

Brigadier-General.

GRENADA, MISS., September 26, 1864.

Colonel HODGSON,

Seventh Alabama Cavalry, Meridian:

Stop your regiment at Egypt, and move it across to Panola.

JAS. R. CHALMERS,

Brigadier-General.

GRENADA, MISS., September 26, 1864.

Major E. G. WHEELER,

Commanding Post, Okolona:

Send men of Rice's battery to this place.

JAS. R. CHALMERS,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 229.
Richmond, Va., September 27, 1864.

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XIII. In addition to his other duties, Major General J. C. Breckinridge will take immediate command of the reserve forces of East Tennessee. He will complete their organization and place them at once in service. To this end he is authorized to employ all enrolling officers, who are hereby directed to obey his instructions. Officers of the Quartermaster, Commissary, Ordnance, and Medical Departments are required to furnish all necessary facilities. All officers from the State of Tennessee of the Invalid Corps, and such of the regular forces as are for any reason unassigned, will immediately report to General Breckinridge, who is authorized to assign them temporarily to duty with the reserves of East Tennessee.

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XVIII. Brigadier General J. S. Williams will immediately report with the force brought by him from Middle Tennessee to Major General J. C. Breckinridge, commanding, &c., for duty in the Department of Southwestern Virginia and East Tennessee.

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XXI. Major General J. C. Breckinridge, Provisional Army, C. S., will assume command of the Department of Southwestern Virginia and East Tennessee.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.