SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S OFFICE, Number 146. Richmond, Va., June 25, 1862.

* * * * * * *

XVI. Paragraphs II and III, General Orders, Number 39, current series, are so modified that Department Number 2 shall now embrace that portion of its former limits which is east of the Mississippi River, and in addition thereto shall comprise Department Number 1, and have its eastern boundary extended to the line of railroad from Chattanooga via Atlanta to West Point, on the Chattanooga River, and thence down the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers to the Gulf of Mexico.*

* * * * * * *

By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. AND INSP. General 'S OFFICE, Number 39. Richmond, Va., May 26, 1862.

* * * * * * *

II. The limits of Department Number 1, under command of Major-General Lovell, will hereafter embrace that portion of the State of Mississippi south of the thirty-third parallel and west of Pascagoula and Chickasawha Rivers, including also that part of the State of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River.

III. Department Number 2, under command of General Beauregard, is extended south to the thirty-third parallel east of the Mississippi River, and extending on that parallel to the eastern boundary of Alabama.

* * * * * * *

By command of the Secretary of War:

S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT Number 2,
Tupelo, June 26, 1862.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General:

GENERAL: I have to acknowledge the receipt of a telegraph dispatch from the Secretary of War, dated the 21st instant, touching the completion of the railroad connection between Meridian, Miss., and Selma, Ala. That connection is one of such vital military necessity, and so immediately affecting military operations in the department intrusted to me, that I feel it my duty to communicate frankly my views for the information and consideration of the department.

The papers accompanying,+ marked A, B, and C, will show conclusively how little the company, unfortunately invested with the privilege of completing this all important work, have done toward the execution of their contract. Since the passage of the act there has been ample time, under a vigorous management, for the construction of the railroad

---------------

*See General Orders, Number 50, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, July 18, 1862, p.649.

+Not found.

---------------