SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 101. Richmond, April 30, 1864.

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III. Major General Jones M. Withers is assigned to the command of the reserve forces of the State of Alabama, enrolled and mustered into service in accordance with the fifth and sixth sections of the "Act to organize forces to serve during the war," approved February 17, 1864.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

[32.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 102. Richmond, May 2, 1864.

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V. Lieutenant Colonel J. P. Johnson, assistant adjutant-general and assistant inspector-general, will proceed to the command of Lieutenant-General Polk on inspection duty in accordance with instructions of this date. The quartermaster will refund expenditures in accordance with General Orders, Numbers 35, Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, current series.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

John WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

[39.]

RICHMOND, May 2, 1864.

General JOHNSTON, Dalton:

Telegram received. Accounts from Baltimore and Washington, as well as from Ohio River, represent large bodies of troops coming East. May not the demonstration in your from be deceptive?*

BRAXTON BRAGG.

[38.]

DALTON, May 2, 1864.

General BRAGG, Richmond, Va.:

General Mercer just arrived with his Second Regiment. The Third, at Americus, he thinks only fit for that service. Will not fight the enemy; holding itself not exchanged. Please send another. He suggests his own former regiment, First Volunteers.

J. E. JOHNSTON.

[38.]

ABINGDON, May 2, 1864.

General S. COOPER,

Adjutant And Inspector General, Richmond, Va.:

I have relinquished command to General W. E. Jones. Johnson's brigade is moving in accordance with your orders. I leave here to-night, via Richmond, in execution of orders received from you.

S. B. BUCKNER,

Major-General.

[39.]

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* This in reply to Johnston, VOL. XXXVIII, Part IV, p. 654.

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