HEADQUARTERS,
Demopolis, May 5, 1864.

Brigadier-General ARMSTRONG,

Commanding, &c., Tuscaloosa, Ala.:

GENERAL: The lieutenant-general commanding directs me to order you to halt your brigade and move with it at once to Montevallo, Ala., where you will await further orders.

Very respectfully, general,

DOUGLAS WEST,

Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

MOBILE, May 5, 1864.

Lieutenant-General POLK:

Pursuant to orders from General Bragg, received yesterday, I have ordered Reynolds' brigade and Tarrant's battery to Dalton, Ga. Colonel Coleman's regiment belongs to that brigade. Two regiments have already left. The rest will follow as soon as possible. Ward's battery (four Napoleon guns) ordered to report to you.

D. H. MAURY,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 126.
Demopolis, Ala., May 5, 1864.

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XII. Major-General Maury will order the Thirty-ninth and Twenty-ninth North Carolina Regiments, McNair's brigade, to report to Major-General French for assignment to Ector's brigade of his division.

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XXVI. * * * The Forty-third Regiment Mississippi Infantry will report to Major-General Loring for assignment to one of the brigades of his division.

By command of Lieutenant-General Polk:

P. ELLIS, JR.,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

DALTON, May 6, 1864-4.30 p. m.

Major-General WHEELER,

Tunnel Hill:

Information has been received here that the enemy in your front are falling back. Is it correct?

W. W. MACKALL,

Chief of Staff.

DALTON, May 6, 1864-12 m.

Major-General MARTIN,

Rome, Ga.:

Colonel Robertson was ordered more than a week ago by General Wheeler to proceed from Oxford to Cartersville with three batteries. Intercept them and use them at Rome.

W. W. MACKALL,

Chief of Staff.