where the commanding officer will report to Major-General Burbridge for duty. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

By command of Major-General Thomas:

SOUTHARD HOFFMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[39.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 1.
Gaylesville, Ala., October 25, 1864.

1. Brigadier-General Garrard will relieve the Fourth U. S. Cavalry from duty with his division and order it to report at these headquarters without delay.

2. The following-named officers will report to Brevet Major-General Wilson for duty: Captain G. H. Kneeland, Fourth Indiana Cavalry; Captain C. C. McCormick, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry; Captain A. Edwards, assistant quartermaster; Captain J. R. Fitch, commissary of subsistence; Lieutenant Joseph Goddard, Fourth Ohio Cavalry.

By command of Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAMONT,
Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

[39.]

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST FLORIDA,
Barrancas, October 25, 1864.

Lieutenant-Colonel CHRISTENSEN,

Asst. Adjt. General, Hdqrs. Mil. Div. of West Mississippi:

COLONEL: I have the honor to report that B. F. Adams, purporting to be a private of Company G, Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry, and who was taken outside our lines to-day, states that Colonel Maury left Pollard yesterday morning for Greenwood's plantation (about twenty miles from the Tensas River), where the headquarters of his regiment is stationed. The different companies of tbe Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry are being relieved by comapneis of the eighth Mississippi Cavalry, and they are all ordered to report at Greenwood's. Captain Amos' company of Fifteenth Confederate was to be relieved yesterday at Milton, Fla., by two companies of the Eighth Mississippi and the two companies stationed at Pine Baren bridge by two more companies of the Eighth. McCulloch's brigade (consisting of three small regiments), Culpeper's battery, and the Fifty-fourth Alabama Infantry comprise the troops stationed at Pollard. The Fifteenth Confederate and Tobin's battery, which is attached to the cavalry, are all the troops that are at Greenwood's. The battery has six pieces, four brass 12-pounder howitzers, and two iron pieces.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. BAILEY,

Brevet Brigadier-General, Commanding.

[35.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Numbers 196.
Nashville, Tenn., October 27, 1864.

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8. The One hundred and eighty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Colonel John O'Dowd commanding, having reported at these headquarters, is