HEADQUARTERS,
December 1, 1864-6 p. m.

Lieutenant-General STEWART:

GENERAL: General Hood directs that you move at daylight in the morning and follow General Lee on the pike toward Nashville. General Forrest reports the enemy in full retreat from Brentwood, and he pressing them.

Yours, respectfully,

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS LEE'S CORPS,

December 1, 1864.

General Lee directs that you have your command in readiness to move at 12 m. to-day. He also directs that you send your empty wagons back to Columbia for ammunition.

Respectfully,

J. W. RATCHFORD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

MONTGOMERY, ALA., December 1, 1864.

General P. D. RODDEY,

Corinth, Miss.:

General Beauregard wishes to know if Athens and Huntsville have been evacuated by the enemy?

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

MOBILE, December 1, 1864.

Colonel GEORGE W. BRENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Montgomery, Ala.:

Enemy left Tangipahoa this morning for Mobile. Two brigades cavalry, under General Davidson, eight guns, eighty-seven wagons, eight wagons bearing pontoon trains. Urge Clanton's brigade to Meridian, to report to General Gardner.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General, Commanding.

MOBILE, December 1, 1864.

Governor WATTS,

Montgomery, Ala.:

Enemy advancing from Tangipahoa on Mobile. Please send all the State troops you can to Pollard.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General, Commanding.