VI. The necessary officers of the different staff departments will be assigned by army commanders, and until this shall be done officers will be detailed to act as such.

VII. The following officers are assigned as commandants of said camps, and will report accordingly: Selme, Brigadier General R. C. Tyler, Provisional Army, C. S. Opelika, Lieutenant Colonel J. W. Buford; Okolona, Colonel J. W. Colquitt, First Arkansas Volunteers.

By command of General Beauregard:

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Six Miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 7, 1864.

(Received 10.10 18th.)

Honorable J. A. SEDDON:

I withdraw my recommendation in favor of the promotion of Major-General Cheatham, for reasons which I will write more fully.

J. B. HOOD.

HEADQUARTERS, Six Miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 7, 1864.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD,
Macon, Ga.:

Captain Reid, commanding at Corinth, Miss., Reports that "scouts from vicinity of Memphis report that Steele with 15,000 men landed at that point on last Thursday and passed up the river Saturday." Respectfully request that all men belonging to this army and any re-enforcements that can be spared be sent forward as soon as possible.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

HEADQUARTERS, Six Miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 7, 1864.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD,
Macon, Ga.:

Whenever you can I will be pleased if you could visit this army.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Near Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864.

Corps commanders will make a report to these headquarters stating the number of flags that were captured by the enemy in the engagements of November 29 and 30, designating the regiments which lost them.

By command of General Hood:

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.