HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF EAST TENNESSEE,
Bristol, April 8, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:

GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit herewith additional charge and specification against Brig. General E. M. Law, C. S. Army. This additional matter has been more recently ascertained.

I remain, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES LONGSTREET,

Lieutenant-General, Commanding.

[Indorsement.]

These charges are not entertained, and General Law has been ordered to assume his command. See dispatch to General Buckner, of April 18.

S. [COOPER.]

[Inclosure.]

ADDITIONAL CHARGE AND SPECIFICATION PREFERRED AGAINST BRIG. General E. M. LAW, OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY.

CHARGE.-Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

Specification.-In this, that Brig. General E. M. Law aforesaid, having obtained a leave of absence from his commanding general (Lieutenant General J. Longstreet) upon the tender of his resignation as a brigadier-general in the army aforesaid to take with him the tender of his resignation from the headquarters of the Department of East Tennessee, to the War Department, for the purpose of delivering the said official communication in person, and did take said communication from the headquarters aforesaid, and did purloin or clandestinely do away with said communication, thereby abusing the confidence of his commanding general aforesaid, and robbing the War Department of its true and proper official record.

This commencing at or near Bean's Station, East Tennessee, on or about the 19th day of December, 1863.

JAMES LONGSTREET,

Lieutenant-General, Commanding.

Witnesses:

Honorable J. A. SEDDON, Secretary of War; Lieutenant General J. LONGSTREET, C. S. Army; Lieutenant Colonel G. M. SORREL, assistant adjutant-general; Captain J. W. RIELY, assistant adjutant-general.

ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, WAR DEPT., C. S.,

Richmond, Va., April 18, 1864.

Maj. General S. B. BUCKNER,

Bristol, Tennessee:

Send Law's brigade to Charlottesville to report to General Field. General Law will be relieved from arrest and put in command of it. The charges against him will not be further entertained.

S. COOPER,

Adjutant and Inspector General.