[First indorsement.]

Respectfully submitted to His Excellency the President.

JOHN B. SALE,

Colonel and Military Secretary.

[Second indorsement.]

AUGUST 5, 1864.

SECRETARY OF WAR:

Public supplies can only be issued to militia who have been received into the service of the Confederate States. Of the particular case I have no other knowledge than that contained within.

J. D.

[Third indorsement.]

AUGUST 6, 1864.

ADJUTANT-GENERAL:

Instruct General Hood, in conformity with the President's indorsement. Also refer this to the Commissary-General, that he may given instructions to his officers conforming to the same.

J. A. S.,

Secretary.

[Fourth indorsement.]

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,

August 10, 1864.

Respectfully referred to the Commissary-General.

By command of the Secretary of War:

H. L. CLAY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Fifth indorsement.]

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF SUBSISTENCE,

August 13, 1864.

Respectfully returned to Adjutant and Inspector General.

Instructions have been given in accordance with the President's indorsement.

L. B. NORTHROP,

Commissary-General of Subsistence.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 183.
Richmond, August 4, 1864.

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XL. Lieutenant Colonel B. W. Frobel, artillery, Provisional Army, C. S., is relieved from duty at Wilmington and is temporarily assigned to engineer duty with the Army of Tennessee. He will report to General J. B. Hood.

* * *

By command of the Secretary of War:

SAML. W. MELTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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