P. H. Thomson to Orders, Headquarters Department No. 2, July 1, 1862

Tupelo, Miss., July 1, 1862.

Brigadier-General CHALMERS, Commanding Oavalry, Booneville, Miss. :

GENERAL: The general commanding directs me to acknowledge the receipt of a dispatch from your adjutant-general, and to inclose to you a copy of instructions already forwarded to you.* It is of the utmost importance that you should co-operate with General Withers in the movement upon Ripley. He further directs me to state that he has information that an empty train is now on the road from Ripley to Rienzi, to which a little attention might profitably be directed.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Assistant Adjutant-General.
GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT No. 2,
No. 86. } Tupelo, Miss., July 1, 1862.
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II. Major-General Hardee will assume the general command of the
Department at Tupelo and environs.
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