Thomas Jordan to Braxton Bragg, July 21, 1862

July 21, 1862.

No. 1. Tupelo, Miss., July 21, 1862.

I. The undersigned, by ordér of the general commanding the depart:

ment, assumes command of the District of the Tennessee, which comprises Northwestern Alabama and all that portion of the State of Mis3issippi which is north of the thirty-second parallel latitude and east of the Pearl River, and of the line of the Mississippi Central Railroad from Jackson to Grand Junction. Headquarters have been established until further orders at Tupelo.

IV. The following officers are announced as constituting the staff of the major-general commanding: Maj. Thomas L. Snead, chief of staff and assistant adjutant-general; Capts. James M. Loughborough and L. A. Maclean, assistant adjutants-general; Capt. Henry M. Clarke, inspector-[general]; Maj. John Reid, chief commissary ; Maj. Randolph H. Dyer, chief quartermaster ; Surg. Thomas D. Wooten, medical director ; Surg. Joseph T. Scott, medical inspector ; Capt. Thomas H. Price, chief of ordnance; Capt. L. Fremaux, acting chief of engineers; Lieuts. Robert C. Wood and H. Clay Taylor, aides-de-camp.

STERLING PRICE, Major-General, Commanding.

SPECIAL aaa HEADQUARTERS OF THE FORCES, No. 3. Tupelo, Miss., July 21, 1862. * * ® * * * *

IV. Adams’, Slemons’, and Wheeler’s regiments of cavalry are transferred for duty to the Army of the West. Colonel Wheeler’s will report accordingly to Major-General Price.

By command of General Bragg:

Chief of Staff.

ADJUTANT AND INSPECTOR GENERAL’S OFFICE,

Richmond, Va., July 22, 1862.

General BRAXTON BRAGG,

Commanding, &c., Tupelo, Miss. :

Your letter of June 29th was duly received and submitted to the President. In reply to that part of it which relates to the appointment of

additional general officers of your command, I am instructed by the