NEAR DECATUR, ALA., October 28, 1864.

Major General HOWELL COBB,

Macon, Ga.:

Order General F. H. Robertson with Williams' command to report without delay to General Wheeler at or near Gadsden. General Iverson is under the orders of General Hood.*

GEO. WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

[39.]

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE WEST,
Near Decatur, October 28, 1864.

Major General N. B. FORREST,

Jackson, Tenn.:

General Beauregard desires that you will report at once with your command to General J. B. Hood, at Bainbridge Crossing, on Tennessee River.

GEO. WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

[39.]

COURTLAND, ALA., October 29, 1864.

Lieutenant-General TAYLOR,

Selma, Ala.:

General Forrest has been ordered to report to General Hood at or near Bainbridge Ferry, on Tennessee River.

GEO. WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

[39.]

OXFORD, ALA., October 29, 1864.

General D. W. ADAMS,

Talladega, Ala.:

Last information from enemy places him at Ladiga, with two brigades under General Ferguson confronting them. Learn General Wheeler and General Ferguson will resist their advance at Cross Plains. Enemy believed to be in small force.

E. S. BURFORD,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

[39.]

COURTLAND, ALA., October 29, 1864.

Major E. S. BURFORD,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Oxford, Ala.:

Withdraw courier line from Oxford to Gadsden, returning all men not required by you to their commands. Remove headquarters to Selma, Ala., and send all papers via Tuscumbia.

GEO. WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

[39.]

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*For reply, see VOL. XXXIX, Part III, p. 878.

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