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General staff of two brigades, one 6-mule wagon.
Quartermaster, commissary, ordnance, and medical departments of four brigades, one 6-mule wagon.
Field and staff, quartermaster, ordnance, and medical departments of two regiments, one 6-mule wagon.
Cooking utensils of each brigade, on 6-mule wagon.
Medical wagon of each brigade, one 6-mule wagon.
As ambulance for each brigade, one light 4-mule wagon.
Field and staff, and company officers of each battalion of artillery, one 4-mule wagon.
Cooking utensils of each battalion of artillery, on 6-mule wagon.
As ambulance for each battalion of artillery, one light 4-mule wagon.
This order will be immediately and vigorously complied with. All surplus transportation will be turned in to Major Taylor, chief quartermaster.
By command of Lieutenant-General Longstreet:
O. LATROBE,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
DEMOPOLIS, February 26, 1864.
General J. E. JOHNSTON,
Dalton, Ga.:
The last of your troops left this morning. I have heard rumors of a forward movement upon you front and am anxious about the facts. Please telegraph me.
L. POLK,
Lieutenant-General.
DEMOPOLIS, February 26, 1864.
His Excellency Governor CLARK,
Macon, Miss.:
I have ordered all the railroads in Mississippi east of Pearl River injured by the enemy repaired immediately,a nd ask your co-operation in impressing all the property necessary to accomplish it. I have given hte requisite authority to Major George Whitfield, of the quartermaster's department, and want 300 negroes with axes, spades, and shovels about Shubuta.
L. POLK,
Lieutenant-general.
DEMOPOLIS, February 26, 1864.
Major S. HILLYER,
Quartermaster, Selma:
No further use for steam-boats after hte last of General Hardee's troops have returned to Montgomery.
T. M. JACK,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
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