HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,

Adairsville and Cassville Road, three miles from Adairsville,

May 18, 1864-11.50 a. m.

General JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON,

Commanding Army of Tennessee:

General Jackson reports the enemy advancing on the railroad and on a road between the railroad and the Hardin and Calhoun road. the enemy do not seem to advance rapidly on the Adairsville and Cassville road. I have fallen back to this point in order to be on a line with General Jackson.

Respectfully, general, your obedient servant,

JOS. WHEELER,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS HOOD'S CORPS,
In the Field, May 18, 1864.

GENERAL: The lieutenant-general commanding requests me to inform you, in order that you may be prepared for any move, that the enemy are advancing on both roads we marched on this morning.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. W. RATCHFORD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

(To division commanders.)

MERIDIAN, May 18, 1864.

Lieutenant-General POLK:

Your cipher dispatch of 17th received. Forrest's force is at Corinth and tupelo. From reports there is nothing to fear from North Alabama. A raid is threatened from Memphis, and I do not deem it expedient to move his force at present, unless you can give me some urgent reason.

S. D. LEE.

SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 115.
Richmond, May 18, 1864.

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XIX. First Lieutenant James H. George, artillery, Provisional Army, C. S., will proceed without delay to Dalton, Ga., and report to General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding, &c., for assignment to ordnance duty under Lieutenant Colonel H. Oladowski, chief ordnance officer, Army of Tennessee.

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By command of the Secretary of War:

JNO. WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

ATLANTA, GA., May 19, 1864.

Colonel JAMES WILSON,

Commanding, &c., Boltonville, Ga.:

COLONEL: In reply to your letter of this date, I beg to state that I have no artillery of longer range than the refiled pieces you already have. I will send you to-morrow one 24-pounder siege gun with ammunition.