MERIDIAN, September 29, 1864.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS:

Here with eight companies Seventh Alabama Cavalry. Delayed by break in road. Will move to Lauderdale and await train. Your dispatch for Colonel Hodgson received. Major Randolph sent copy of your dispatch to Okolona.

E. D. LEDYARD,

Captain, Commanding.

OXFORD, September 29, 1864.

General CHALMERS:

Memphis scouts report under date 27th:

Raid to Hernando returned last night. One brigade cavalry and one regiment infantry, five pieces artillery, at White's Station, making raids daily to Germantown. Raid out on Holly Ford road yesterday; came out ten miles and returned. Second New Jersey Regiment has recruited 400 recently.

SAM. C. LANCASTER,

Henderson's Scouts.

MONTGOMERY, September 30, 1864.

Honorable J. A. SEDDON:

Revoke order establishing boundary between the Departments of Georgia, &c., and Alabama, &c., by substituting the Florida and Georgia State line up to Tennessee River for the line which now runs south of that river through the State of Alabama.

JEFFN. DAVIS.

[Indorsement.]

SEPTEMBER 30, 1864.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL:

Make the change of boundary directed and issue at once.

J. A. SEDDON.

PALMETTO, September 30, 1864.

His Excellency President DAVIS,

Montgomery of Opelika, Ala.:

I concur fully in your views expressed in your letter brought by Colonel Cox. I will write you at length.

J. G. HOOD,

General.

DARK CORNER, September 30, 1864.

Brigadier-General GOVAN,

Commanding, &c.:

General Hood desires that you will give Brigadier-General Iverson any aid you can in resisting any cavalry expedition against the WEST Point railroad, but not to allow yourself to be cut off from Moore's Bridge, as you must cross the Chattahoochee there, whenever you are ordered to join the main body of the army.

[A. P. MASON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.]