den, in the direction of Guntersville. Your wagon trains must move at 2 a. m. and your troops at 3, as the entire army moves on the same road, and your corps will lead. Army headquarters to-morrow will be at Gadsden.

A. P. MASON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

OCTOBER 19, 1864 -1 p. m.

Major General ARNOLD ELZEY, Commanding, &c.:

Headquarters are to-day fourteen miles from Gadsden, where the road from center to Gadsden and the road from Blue Pond to Gadsden intersect. General Hood directs you will move to-morrow morning for Gadsden, with all the artillery and wagons under your command, and upon arriving at Gadsden have them parked in the immediate vicinity of the place, on the south side of the Coosa. The army will move to Gadsden to-morrow. Please have the wagons of the assistant adjutant-general's office to move with yo, and all the clerks. Captain Palfrey will know them. I have not the means with me of making out any reports or returns. Of the clerks I need particularly Ensign, Duplantier, and Moutrieul. Bring any mail you may have to Gadsden.

A. P. MASON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY DIVISION,
October 19, 1864.

Major-General WHEELER, Commanding Cavalry Corps:

GENERAL: I have three pickets on the river instructed to vedette one miles each on the other side. I do not fully understand your instructions in regard to placing "an additional picket on the opposite (east) side of the river. " Please explain.

Respectfully,

THOS. HARRISON,

Colonel, Commanding DIVISION.

The scout toward Coosaville has just returned and reports the enemy's vedette on the main Rome road, five miles from Love's Ford, in the direction of Coosaville.

Respectfully,

THOS. HARRISON,

Colonel, &c.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE WEST,
Jacksonville, Ala., October 19, 1864.

Lieutenant General RICHARD TAYLOR,

Commanding Dept. of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana:

GENERAL: The following dispatch from General Cooper, assigning the limits of this department, is furnished for your information:

RICHMOND, October 3, 1864.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD:

The Department of Tennessee and Georgia, under General Hood, includes all of the State of Georgia north and WEST of the following line; Commencing at Augusta and