information from you of the enemy's advance. So, in such an event, send a courier to him promptly. Have you heard of General Martin? Did he bring artillery with him from East Tennessee? Did Dibrell? And, if so, where is it?

Respectfully, &c.,

J. E. JOHNSON.

TUSCALOOSA, ALA., May 3, 1864-10 p. m.

Major General S. D. LEE:

GENERAL: Inclosed are all the letters from General Polk received up to this time.* As there is no particular hurry in this move, I will cross my command at the ferry below to-morrow and next day, and leave the river the morning of the 6th, and will arrive at Columbus the 8th, sending quartermasters ahead to collect forage. Will you please order forage for the command at some camping place near the city by the time I reach there?

Respectfully,

W. H. JACKSON,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 103.
Richmond, May 3, 1864.

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VIII. First Lieutenant D. W. Currie, Corps of Engineers, Provisional Army, C. S., will proceed without delay to the headquarters Army of Tennessee and report to General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding, for assignment to duty with his chief engineer.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

DALTON, May 4, 1864.

General BRAGG,

Richmond:

Our scouts report almost all the Federal troops of East Tennessee brought to Thomas' army. Might not General Buckner take advantage of this?

J. E. JOHNSTON.

DALTON, May 4, 1864.

General B. BRAGG,

Richmond:

The movements of the enemy in our front, who is now establishing his picket-line as low down on the Cleveland road as Varnell's Station, within nine miles of Dalton, the concurring reports of every scout that he has for some days past been drawing all his forces both flanks to Cleveland and Ringgold, and is now bringing them up from North

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* Not found as inclosures.

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