Thomas Jordan to Special Orders, } Headquarters Department No. 2, July 17, 1862

GENERAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT NO. 2,

July 17, 1862.

No. 100. Tupelo, Miss., July 17, 1862.

The personal and general staff of the commander of the forces are announced as follows:

Personal Staff.—First Lieuts. Towson Ellis and F. 8S. Parker, jr., aides-de-camp ; Lieut. Col. D. Urquhart and Majs. L. M. Conner and John M. Huger, volunteer aides-de-camp.

General Staff—Brig. Gen. Thomas Jordan, chief of staff; Lieut. Col. George G. Garner and Capts. F. H. Jordan and John M. Otey, assistant adjutants-general; Brig. Gen. J. E. Slaughter, inspector-general ; Lieut. Cols. C. J. Polignac and W. K. Beard and Capts. J. P. Jones and G. B. Cooke, assistant inspectors-general ; Lieut. Col. H. W. Walter, judgeadvocate; Lieut. Col. L. W. O’Bannon, chief quartermaster; Maj. M. B. MeMicken, assistant to chief quartermaster; Maj. A. J. Smith, chief quartermaster in the department of pay; Maj. J. J. Walker, chief of subsistence; Maj. F. Malloy, assistant to chief of subsistence ; Surg. A. J. Foard, medical director; Surgs. J. C. Nott and S. E. Chaillé, medical inspectors; Col. John Pegram, chief of engineers; Lieut. Col. H. Oladowski, chief of ordnance;-Col. M. L. Clark, chief of artillery ; Lieut. Col. J. H. Hallonquist, inspector of artillery ; Maj. J. W. Goodwin, quartermaster’s department, military superintendent of railroads.

By command of General Bragg:

Chief of Staff.

SPECIAL ORDERS, } HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT No. 2,

No. 123. Tupelo, Miss., July 17, 1862.

The following operations will take place without delay :

I. Brigadier-General Chalmers will advance with the disposable cavalry of his command, including Wirt Adams’ regiment, and endeavor te

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get behind Grand Junction and cut off and obstruct the railroad thence