HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMEN,
Murfeesborough, February 24, 1862.

Brigadier General JOHN B. FLOYD:

GENERAL: You will take command of Wharton's and McCausland's regiments and Starnes' and Smith's battalions and mareh with them to Chattanooga, and adopt efficient measures for guarding the approaches to that place against the enemy. You are authorized to muster into service for the war a force sufficient for the purpose. You will correspond directly with the War Department.

By command of General Johnston:

W. W. MACKALL,

Asstant Adjutant-General.

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HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,
Murfreesborough, February 25, 1862.

Brigadier-General FLOYD,

Commanding:

I am instructed by the commanding general to say that so soon as Hindman's brigade passes you and leaves the road clear he wishes you to take up your line of march to Chattanooga.

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

W. W. MACKALL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 45. Richmond, February 25, 1862.

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XV. The Fortieth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers, under Colonel L. M. Walker, will hereafter be designated and known as the fifth Confederate Regiment.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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JACKSON, TENN., February 26, 1862.

Major General L. POLK,

Commanding Forces, Columbus:

DEAR GENERAL: By arrangement with Governor Harris the companies of the Tennessee regiment under your command will be filled up with recruits enough, severally, to take the arms and the non-effective as reported in your return for January. Efficient commissaries and quartermaters ought to be at hand at Corinth, Grenada, and Meridian, in the State of Mississippi, to provide for the volutneers as they rendezvous at those place, under the call upon the Governors of the Mississippi Valley States, of which I have advised you. Can you provide these officers? Camp equipage will be needed. What are your resources of this character? If you do not have enough for probable contigencies can a proper supply be gathered in the valley. I inclose