P. D. Roddey to Very respectfully, June 14, 1862

Tupelo, Miss., June 14, 1862.

We hereby certify that, after attendance upon General Beauregard for the past four months and treatment of his case, in our professional opinion, he is incapacitated physically for the arduous duties of his present command, and we urgently recommend rest and recreation. k. L. BRODIE, Surgeon, Provisional Army, Confederate States. SAML. CHOPPIN, Surgeon, Provisional Army, Confederate States.

GRENADA, MIss., June 15, 1862. (Jeneral JORDAN, Tupelo, Miss. : Mr. Proctor has arrived with his dispatch. Shall 1 burn the cotton

throughout the interior 1 DANIEL RUGGLES, Brigadier-General, Commanding.

TUPELO, MIss., June 15, 1862. (Received June 16, 1862, 11 p. m.) Brig. Gen. DANIEL RUGGLES: Yes; burn all cotton in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy.

Where is Villepigue ? G. T. BEAUREG ARD.

[GRENADA, Miss., June 15, 1862.) General BEAUREGARD, Tupelo, Miss. :

Villepigue is here commanding troops. rae E DANIEL RUGGLES, Brigadier-General.

TUPELO, Miss., June 15, 1862. (Received 5 p. m.) General DANIEL RUGGLES, Commanding :

It is reported enemy intend moving on Grenada. Send away at once everything from there and elsewhere as already instructed. Send also unarmed troops to Jackson, Miss., with ample provisions, and when compelled to evacuate Grenada repair to same place, reporting for the present to General Lovell or officer in command there. Keep only twenty days’ provisions at Grenada for your armed troops.

GRENADA, Miss., June 15, 1862. Colonel JACKSON, Commanding Advance :

You will assume command of all troops serving in the counties of Tunica, De Soto, Marshall, and Tippah, on our northern border. You will destroy the railroad tracks and bridges, the telegraph, and all cotton exposed to the depredations of the enemy. Unnecessary destruction of buildings and other property is positively prohibited. Take measures to impede the advance of the enemy at all points.

DANIEL RUGGLES, Brigadier-General, C. 8. Army, Commanding.

HERNANDO, Miss, June 15, 1862. Brigadier-General RUGGLES, Grenada, Miss. :

GENERAL: Your orders for the past few days have been received, and as far as was in my power have been fully complied with. I do not fully understand your order to tear up railroad above this point. If it is your wish that the iron shall all be taken up you will have to order some one of the railroad men now in your town up here to superintend it, and I will try and get a force of negroes from the planters in this region to do the work. There is not a man here to whom I ¢an intrust the management of this work, and as all the men who are and have been connected with our railroads are in and around Grenada I shall have to trust you to supply this necessity. If youonly wish the bridges and trestle-work on the road burned. I can have this done from my own resources. The roads as far down as Horn Lake Depot will be destroyed to-day by my order. I await an answer from you explanatory before doing more.

With regard to burning cotton I have been doing all I could with the means at my disposal, but the order you sent me embraces a very extensive area of country and will require, to be certainly and promptly done, an additional force of from 50 to 100 cavalry. Please let me know if I can rely upon getting this additional force.

The market for supplies is rather bare at this place, but at the different depots between this and Grenada I am told a great many supplies could be procured if proper effort be made at an early day. I

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have a man here whom I intend sending out through the country adjoining, but I would respectfully suggest that the most efficient plan by which this work can be done is for you to send some good quartermaster to this place for that purpose, and I will post him and aid him in his task.

I have information again from Memphis this morning. The force of the enemy is being increased daily, and as they now have a great many cavalry I think that any work we have to do in or near this region should be done speedily.

Respectfally, J. H. EDMONDSON, Captain, O. 8. Army.

Organization of the First Corps, Army of the Mississippi, commanded by Maj. Gen. Leonidas Polk, June 15, 1862.

FIRST DIVISION. Brig. Gen. CHARLES CLARK commanding.

Firet Brigade. Second Brigade. Brig. Gen. P. SMITH commanding. Brig. Gen. A. P. STEWART commanding. 12th Tennessee, Colonel Bell. 13th Arkansas, Lieut. Col. Brown. 13th Tennessee, Col. [A. J 4 Vaughan. 4th Tennessee, Col. O. F. Strahl. 22d Tennessee, Col. L. P. McMurry. 5th Tennessee, Col. C. D. Venable, 47th Tennessee, Major Shearon. 3lst Tennessee, Col. [W. M.] Bradford.

Bankhead’s battery, Lieutenant Scott. 33d Tennessee, Col. [W. P.] Jones. Battery, Capt. T. J. Stanfor

Maj. Gen. B. F. CHEATHAM commanding.

First Brigade. Second Brigade. Col. A. 8. FULTON commanding. Brig. Gen. GEORGE MaNEY commanding. 8th Tennessee, Maj. C. C. McKinney. lst Tennessee, Col. H. R. Feild. 15th Tennessee, Col. R. C. Tyler. 6th Tennessee, Lieut. Col.W. M. R. Johns. 16th Tennessee, Col. J. H. Savage. 9th Tennessee, Lieut. Col. J. W. Buford. 51st Tennessee, Col. John Chester. 27th Tennessee, Col. A. W. Caldwell. 154th Senior Tennessee, Col. E. Fitzgerald. Smith’s battery, Capt. M. Smith.

Carnes’ battery, Capt. W. W. Carnes. DETAOHED BRIGADB. Brig. Gen. S. B. Maxky commanding. 4\st Georgia, Col. C. A. McDaniel. 24th Mississippi, Lieutenant-Colonel McKelvaine.

9th Texas, Col. [W. H.] Young. Battery, Captain Eldridge.

GRENADA, MISS., June 17, 1862. fxeneral BEAUREGARD, Tupelo, Miss. :

Col. W. B. Shelby reports the enemy, 5,000 infantry and 300 cavalry, advancing rapidly on Holly Springs at 2 a.m. He has fallen back of

Tallahatchie. DANIEL RUGGLES, Brigadier-General, Commanding.

[JUNE 17, 1862.] Col. W. B. SHELBY, Oxford, Miss. :

You will hold the Tallahatchie Bridge, and also break up the railroad track as near to Holly Springs as practicable, moving the iron in this direction. Impress negro labor. Call on Colonel Goodman for special instructions as to the manner of breaking up the track. You will burn the cotton as near Holly Springs as practicable in the event of the enemy having reached there. Remove the telegraphic apparatus from there; take down wire as far as practicable.

Communicate your present position to Colonel Jackson.

DANIEL RUGGLES, Brigadier-General, Commanding.

GRENADA, June 17, 1862. Colonel SHELBY, Tallahatchie Bridge :

Break up the track, if you can, beyond the bridge and cut off the telegraph and save the apparatus. Bring all rolling stock this side of the bridge and prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy. Prepare to destroy the railroad track over the bridge, and call on President Goodman, at Oxford, for an agent to assist in effecting it.

Comiunicate with Colonel Jackson your position. Send here all useless men and baggage from your regiment, and retain cars enough to prevent surprise. Burn cotton toward Holly Springs in the vicinity of the enemy. Keep couriers observing his movements.

DANIEL RUGGLES, Brigadier-General, 0. 8. Army.

TISHOMINGO O1Ty, Miss., June 17, 1862. Captain RopDEY:

DEAR Siz: We have been happily successful in obtaining important information of the enemy’s movements. There have been four brigades at luka, viz, McCook’s, Crittenden’s, Wood’s, and Nelson’s. They are all gone—Wood’s toward Decatur, Ala., the others across the river at Eastport, with a large cavalry force, except part of Nelson’s brigade, which is to leave to-morrow; the other part left this morning. The enemy has drawn in his pickets near town to-day. The enemy has a very large amount of stores at Iuka and Eastport. He has 400 wagons running between those points without any guard over them. There are two acres of ground covered with stores at Bastport. We learn there are to be 100 men left at Iuka to guard the stores.

We do not know how many men are at Bear Creek Bridge. It was finished yesterday. There is but one engine and about fifteen cars yet, but they say they will have a lot of rolling stock from above. There is reported to be two cavalry regiments between Jacinto and Cartersville. I will get more information to-morrow. I would give more now,

but it is getting too dark. The above is from what consider unquestionable authority.

Respectfally, bee : LI AMS.

T. T. Herridge will forward this to General Chalmers immediately. and if he is absent carry it to General Bragg, as the information is all fully reliable and may be of some importance at headquarters.

Very respectfully,

Oaptain, &c.
P. 8.—I think that General Pope’s division is on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, or probably now moving in the direction of Iuka.
Very respectfully,

GRENADA, Miss., June 17, 1862.