Abstract from returns of the Department of the Ohio, Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of June, 1864. [Compiled mainly from subordinate returns.] Command. General headquarters. First Division * Second Division (Hascall). Third Division (Cox).. Fourth Division (Ammen) Fifth Divisiont (Burbridge).. Cavalry Corps (Stoneman) Engineer Troops § (McAles ter). Total Twenty-third Army 1, 409 28, 248 35, 109 Newport Barracks (Colonel Bur. bank). Grand total Department of 1,457 28, 320 Grand total according to 1, 408 28, 389 35, 231 partment. CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. General BRAGG, Richmond: DALTON, May 1, 1864. Our scouts report re-enforcements to the enemy continually arriving, and preparations to advance, including repair of railroad from Cleve land to Red Clay. McNair's brigade, at Pollard, can be of no use there, and would complete Bate's division if here. Can it not be sent? J. E. JOHNSTON. DEMOPOLIS, May 1, 1864. Maj. Gen. S. D. LEE, Commanding Cavalry, Tuscaloosa, Ala.: GENERAL: I am directed by the lieutenant-general commanding to acknowledge the receipt of your two communications of the 25th and *Troops temporarily assigned to Second and Third Divisions, Twenty-third Army Corps. + District of Kentucky. + Compiled from tri-monthly returns of May 31 and June 10, 1864. Detailed infantry detachments and accounted for with their regiments. 26th,* and to say that he has caused investigations to be made as to the views and purposes of the enemy in Tennessee, and is of the opinion that there is no good reason to believe it is his intention to move immediately in the direction of Selma, and accedes to your wish to remove Jackson's division of cavalry to the prairies near Columbus. He also approves of your making your headquarters at Columbus. He desires you would leave Ferguson and Roddey in Alabama. He has also ordered Brigadier-General Pillow to report to you, with instructions to complete a brigade he is now raising; this brigade to be composed of Armistead's, Hatch's, or Ball's, and Thomas' and Walker's regiments, with any others that may be added. You will instruct General Pillow to push the completion and outfit of this brigade as soon as practicable. He should give his personal attention to it. There will be a battery assigned it and ordered to report to him. The lieutenant-general desires me to say that he has already ordered the rebuilding of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to Corinth some time since, and that it is now in course of construction, and will in a short time be completed, and that he has also taken measures to rebuild the road from Corinth to Cherokee-perhaps to Tuscaloosa. This last measure is necessary not only for military purposes, but also to aid in sustaining the population in the Tennessee Valley. He has also taken steps to have the works at Corinth put in order, or at least so much as may be held by a small force with light armament, and has determined to move the command of Major-General Forrest there, making it his headquarters and establishing it as a post. This will enable Forrest to threaten Memphis, Paducah, and all other of the enemy's posts on the Mississippi; also to give support to our cause in West Tennessee, and draw out troops and provisions. He will be in position also for a movement on Tennessee Valley, or into Middle Tennessee. The lieutenantgeneral thinks favorably of moving on Sherman's flank with his force of cavalry and infantry, and is putting himself in communication with General Johnston and the War Department that he may be advised as to the details of the campaign proposed. The lieutenant-general desires to confer with you in person, and wishes you to take his headquar ters in your route for Columbus. I am, general, respectfully, your obedient servant, DOUGLAS WEST, Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. P. S.-You may inform Roddey, in answer to his inquiry, that it is intended to repair the railroad from Corinth to Tuscumbia. DOUGLAS WEST, Major and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. [Indorsement.] MAY 3, 1864-10 p. m. Opened and read by General Jackson. GENERAL: I will move my command to Columbus as soon as I can send quartermasters ahead to collect forage. W. H. JACKSON, * See Vol. XXXII, Part III, pp. 822 and 828. DALTON, May 1, 1864. Major-General WHEELER, Commanding Cavalry, Tunnel Hill: General Johnston wishes you to order all your scouts observing the Tennessee, from Bridgeport to Gunter's Landing, to report any movements of the enemy to the commanding officer at Rome. And desires you to try to ascertain the truth of the reported activity and movements of trains from Chattanooga to Ringgold. Respectfully, your obedient servant, W. W. MACKALL, Chief of Staff. GENERAL ORDERS, No. 1. HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY, DEPT. OF ALA., MISS. AND EAST LA., Tuscaloosa, Ala., May 1, 1864. * * III. * * First. The command of Maj. Gen. N. B. Forrest, composed of such troops as are at present under his control, to be known as Forrest's cavalry. Second. Jackson's cavalry division, Brig. Gen. W. H. Jackson commanding. Third. Adams' cavalry division, composed of Mabry's and Scott's brigades, Brig. Gen. Wirt Adams commanding. Fourth. Pillow's cavalry brigade, Brig. Gen. Gideon J. Pillow commanding. Fifth. Roddey's cavalry brigade, Brig. Gen. P. D. Roddey commanding. Sixth. Ferguson's cavalry brigade, Brig. Gen. S. W. Ferguson commanding. IV. The following staff officers are designated as chiefs of the several departments: Maj. William Elliott, assistant adjutant and inspector general; Maj. A. G. Quaite, chief quartermaster; Maj. G. B. Dyer, chief commissary; Surg. C. N. Hawes, acting chief surgeon; Maj. J. L. Wofford, chief of artillery; Capt. John Clark, chief ordnance officer. S. D. LEE, Major-General. Abstract from report of Light Artillery of Lieut. Gen. Leonidas Polk's command. Two scouts just returned, who went by Ooltewah and Cleveland, report enemy sending all Southern people and heavy baggage to the rear, stopping rations to inhabitants, collecting large supply trains at Graysville, and bringing their cavalry from Middle Tennessee. An officer just from Columbia reports that 13,000 had been collected there. All scouts report Hooker's troops in position there. HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ALA., MISS., AND EAST LA., Maj. J. D. BRADFORD, Demopolis, Ala., May 2, 1864. Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General: MAJOR: You will proceed to Tuscaloosa without delay for the purpose of accompanying the expedition composed of the Missouri Brigade of infantry, of General French's division, and such cavalry force as MajorGeneral Lee may have assigned to accompany it, for the purpose of 42 R R-VOL XXXVIII, PT IV clearing the northern counties of Alabama of tories, deserters, and conscripts evading the obligations of service. You will instruct the officers in charge of these troops to arrest every man they find who is absent from his command without leave, whether enlisted men (paroled or not) or conscripts, and especially to capture every man whose disloyalty to the Government there is good reason to believe can be established. It is understood there is in North Alabama a secret society composed of citizens and soldiers for the purpose of opposing the Confederate Government and promoting desertions to the Federal army. Should these men or any others be found in arms and offering resistance, you will order that they be put to death upon the spot. General Lee has been ordered to direct Brigadier-General Roddey to picket the Tennessee River front from the Mississippi line as far east as may be necessary to prevent the escape of these men into Tennessee. You will send couriers to General Roddey keeping him advised of the movements of the troops and the objects of the expedition. Also advise all commanders, whether provost-marshals or enrolling officers, that they may co-operate in effecting the arrests. You will see that the troops are supplied with provisions for the expedition, and that all prisoners arrested be ordered to Tuscaloosa to be disposed of. The expedition will move promptly and the troops return to Tuscaloosa as soon as it is finished. By command of Lieutenant-General Polk: (Copy to Maj. Gen. S. D. Lee.) DOUGLAS WEST, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS HOOD'S CORPS, General Hood directs me to say that the enemy have possession of Tunnel Hill, and General Stewart has gone in line of battle to Mill Creek Gap. He wishes you to hold your division in readiness to move at a moment's notice; get under arms. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, CIRCULAR.] J. W. RATCHFORD, Assistant Adjutant-General. HEADQUARTERS HOOD'S CORPS, As there is a prospect of an early advance of the enemy, and of the troops being called upon to move at any time, it is desired that commanding officers cause all rations on hand to be placed in the haversacks of the men whenever they are ordered under arms. By command of Lieut. Gen. J. B. Hood, commanding: Major-General WHEELER: J. W. RATCHFORD, Assistant Adjutant-General. DALTON, May 3, 1864. GENERAL: Stewart's division will remain in its present camp, on the promise of the general to be in Tunnel Hill in an hour after receiving *So dated in only copy on file, but collateral evidence indicates that it should be May 7. |