RICHMOND, November 22, 1862.

Lieutenant-General PEMBERTON:

If the conscripts are Louisiana conscripts you are authorized to take sufficient number to fill the Louisiana regiments, otherwise they cannot be so taken under the law.

S. COOPER,

[15.] Adjutant and Inspector General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 274.
Richmond, November 22, 1862.

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IV. Paragraph XXIII, Special Orders, Numbers 249, current series, is hereby revoked, and Major Thomas L. Snead, assistant adjutant-general, will report to Lieutenant-General Pemberton, commanding, t Jackson, Miss., for duty with Major General Sterling Price.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
[17.] Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 275.
Richmond, November 24, 1862.

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XI. Major Pollok B. Lee, assistant adjutant-general, Provisional Army, will report to General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding, &c., at Chattanooga, Tenn., for assignment to such duty as he may see fit.

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By command of the Secretry of War:

John WITHERS,

[17.] Assistant Adjutant-General.

YAZOO CITY, MISS., November 24, 1862.

Lieutenant-General PEMBERTON, C. S. Army,

Commanding Department of the Mississippi, &c., Jackson, Miss.:

SIR: I beg leave respectfully to the commanding general that if the Yazoo Pass remains unobstructed it may at high water afford the enemy a passage for their gun-boats into the Coldwater River, thence to this place. I am not sure that permanent obstructions can at this time be placed in the pass, but it the trees along its banks were felled from both sides across the channel, which is seldom 100 feet wide, they could offer serious impediments to its navigation. Many of these trees would remain under water at sufficient depth to stop the passage of gun-boats, and they would, from the strength of the current and from the muddy water rendering them invisible, be very difficult to remove. Lieutenant Sheppard, C. S. Navy, the bearer of this letter, will place himself under yous orders to have this work executed, having instructions from me to do so. There are three companies of partisan rangers who are frequently on duty near the Yazoo Pass, and who wuld perhpas be sufficient to protect the working party under Lieutenant Sheppard. To avoid attaracting the attention of the enemy, who