CORINTH, January 2, 1865.

Lieutenant-General STEWART:

Send all your artillery to Columbus, and take most direct route for your troops to Tupelo. Let your barefooted men move with your troops to Tupelo: if necessary, organize them together under good officers. You need not make hard marches.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

CORINTH, January 2, 1865.

Lieutenant-General STEWART:

Wednesday will be time enough for you to start; ambulances and wagons for your cooking utensils will be sufficient to have with the troops.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS STEWART'S CORPS,

Burnsville, Miss., January 2, 1865.

I am directed by Lieutenant-General Stewart to instruct you to collect all the barefooted men of your command, to place them under charge of suitable officers, with three days' cooked rations, and to send them to Tupelo. They will start in the morning at daylight; will go as far as Jacinto to-morrow.

Respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. D. GALE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS STEWART'S CORPS,

Burnsville, Miss., January 2, 1865.

All of the wagons of the corps, except cook wagons, ambulances, and enough of those of the supply train to transport what remains of the subsistence stores-four day's rations-now on hand, after issuing three day's rations, will proceed to Columbus, Miss., following the artillery on the road to Fulton. A quartermaster from each division will be placed in charge of the train of each division, and will report to Lieutenant-Colonel Williams, commanding artillery. Three days' cooked rations of bread, from 4th to 6th inclusive, will be prepared during the day to-morrow and issued to the troops. Three day's cooked rations will be prepared as soon as possible and issued to the barefooted men, who will then be sent, under suitable officers, to Tupelo, starting in time to reach Jacinto to-morrow night. Lieutenant-Colonel Williams will take charge of the train and report to Major-General Elzey, at Columbus, Miss.

By command of Lieutenant-General Stewart:

W. D. GALE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Indorsement.]

11.30 P. M.

Brigade headquarters wagons are excluded from the operation of this order. They can remain with the troops.

By order of Major-General Walthall:

E. D. CLARK,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.