SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Numbers 126.
Tullahoma, May 12, 1863.

* * * *

IX. Surg. R. R. Goode is hereby ordered to report to Brigadier General John H. Morgan for assignment as chief surgeon of his division.

By command of General Bragg:

H. W. WALTER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

[23.]

RICHMOND, VA., May 14, 1863.

General J. E. JOHNSTON,

Jackson, miss.:

Your dispatch to the Secretary of War received.* Anxiously wait for further information as to the disposition against the enemy. Have the re-enforcements arrived?+

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

[24.]

MONTGOMERY, May 16, 1863.

General BRAXTON BRAGG,

Tullahoma:

Communications with General Johnston are temporarioly interrupted. General Forrest ought, with his command, to go to North Mississippi, and at once, and to report his arrival to General Johnston. Excuse this informality.

BENJ. S. EWELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[24.]

SHELBYVILLE, May 16, 1863.

Colonel B. S. EWELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Forrest's command not in condition. Jackson's division, Van Dorn's command, ordered to General Johnston. Roddey has gone.

B. BRAGG.

[24.]

RICHMOND, VA., May 18, 1863.

Governor J. J. PETTUS,

Jackson, Miss.:

Get the people in Mississippi to join Johnston and attack the enemy in rear. Do not let him get to the river or effect a junction with his reserve.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

[24.]

ENTERPRISE, May 19, 1863.

His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS:

Orders issued. All available troops to aid General Johnston. Companies organizing in every county. Send me arms and ammunition.

---------------

*See Johnston to Seddon, May 12, VOL. XXIV, Part I, p. 215.

+I bid., May 16, p. 215.

---------------