Order
S. Cooper to Headquarters Department No. 2, May 26, 1862
GENERAL ORDERS, } WAR DEPT., ADJT. AND INSP. GEN.âS OFFIOE,
May 26, 1862.
No. 39. } Richmond, Va., May 26, 1862. = * s * * * *
II. The limits of Department No. 1, under command of Major-General Lovell, will hereafter embrace that portion of the State of Mississippi south of the thirty-third parallel and west of Pascagoula and Chickasawha Rivers, including also that part of the State of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River.
III. Department No. 2, under command of General Beauregard, is extended south to the thirty-third parallel east of the Mississippi River, and extending on that parallel to the eastern boundary of Alabama.
By command of the Secretary of War:
8S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT No. 2,
Tupelo, June 26, 1862.
Adjutant and Inspector General.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT No. 2,
Tupelo, June 26, 1862.
General S. COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General:
GENERAL : I have to acknowledge the receipt of a telegraph dispatch
from the Secretary of War, dated the 21st instant, touching the completion of the railroad connection between Meridian, Miss., and Selma,
Adjutant and Inspector General:
GENERAL : I have to acknowledge the receipt of a telegraph dispatch
from the Secretary of War, dated the 21st instant, touching the completion of the railroad connection between Meridian, Miss., and Selma,
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in West Tennessee and Mississippi, Pt. 1. Summary: S. Cooper informs Headquarters Department No. 2 of the redefined military boundaries and acknowledges a War Department dispatch regarding the railroad connection between Meridian, Mississippi, and Selma.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 17, Part 1
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