the hands of commanders will be returned to the ordnance department, to be placed at suitable points in depot. Surplus wagons from this arrangement will be returned to the quartermaster's department.

III. Two good four-mule wagons will be supplied immediately to each brigade for the transportation of hospital stores, and the field allowance to troops will be increased to one wagon to 70 men.

By command of General Bragg:

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA, November 25, 1862.

General S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:

GENERAL: General Kirby Smith, in organizing his command to operate with General Bragg in Middle Tennessee, has left Brig. General Henry Heth in command of the Department of East Tennessee, at Knoxville. General Heth, for particular reasons, is desirous of active field service, and has expressed to me the wish to join the Army of Northern Virginia. I should be very glad of his services at this time, and if ordered to report to me I can give him a command. I understand that General Heth's services are not essential at Knoxville, as there is another general officer there who can relieve him.

I am, with great respect, your obedient servant,

R. E. LEE,

General.

Abstract from report of Cavalry Brigade, commanded by Brig. General John A. Wharton, C. S. Army, for November 25, 1862.

Present for duty.

Command. Officer Men. Aggregate

s. present

and

absent.

General staff 7 ---- 7

3rd Confederate Regiment

2nd Georgia Regiment

4th Tennessee Regiment

Tennessee battalion

(Bledsoe's)

106 1,473 2,347 8th Texas Regiment

White's section of artillery

(6-pounders)

Anderson's company of

cavalry*

--- ---- ---- Total

Á

113 1,473 2,354

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

No. 3. Murfreesborough, November 26, 1862.

I. All military organizations not completed in Middle Tennessee under the recent extension given for the formation of volunteers will not be recognized after the 1st proximo, and after that date all subjects liable to conscription will be required to select their regiments, and join for duty, or be assigned.

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*Reported on the return as "employed as couriers," and strength not stated.

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