negroes in arms; took the two guns and ten wagons. His loss twelve. Seven thousand Federals at Port Hudson.

J. E. JOHNSTON.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 193.
Richmond, August 14, 1863.

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XXI. Major W. E. Moore, commissary of subsistence, is hereby assigned to duty as chief commissary of the army headquarters, now at Morton, Miss., and in accordance with the system approved April 15, 1863, Major Moore will not interfere with the arrangements of the Bureau of Subsistence for purchasing and collecting subsistence stores, but he will apply to Major W. H. Dameron, chief commisary of subsistence of the State of Mississippi, or, if depots are required in Alabama, to Major J. J. Walker, chief commissary of subsistence of Alabama, for the subsistence stores required, indicating the places of deposit.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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RICHMOND, VA., August 17, 1863.

Messrs. ISHAM G. HARRIS AND OTHERS,

Columbus, Miss.:

Your dispatch received. General Hardee is now and has been for some time in command of corps. He ranks General Pemberton. An inquiry has been ordered that justice might be done. It is not probable that the same troops who were togetehr at Vicksburg will ever be all in the same corps again.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 197.
Richmond, Va., August 19, 1863.

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VIII. The troops paroled at Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and subsequently furloughed, will at the expiration of furlough be assembled as follows: Those from Tennessee will be assembled at Chattanooga, Tenn., under the direction of General Bragg, with the exception of Vaughn's brigade, which has already been directed to assemble in East Tennessee at such point as Major-General Buckner shall direct; those from Georgia will be assembled at Atlanta, Ga., under the supervision of Brigadier-General Cumming; those from Alabama will be assembled at Demopolis, Ala., under the supervision of Brigadier General W. M. Gardner, and those from Mississippi and Louisiana will be assembled under the superivision of Lieutenant-General Hardee at Morton, Miss., or at such other placeas Lieutenant-General Hardee shall direct. The troops thus ordered to assemble will be formed and organized, as far as poracticable, into their former regiments and battalions, and will be reported without delay to this office.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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