Thos. L. Snead to Chattanooga, Tenn., August 7, 1862, August 7, 1862

Tupelo, Miss., August 7, 1862.

Col. W. H. Moore, . Comdg. Forty-third Mississippi Regiment, Gainesville, Miss. : CoLONEL: You will move your regiment at once to Tupelo. The trains will be put at your disposal for that purpose within the next three or four days. One company may, if absolutely required, be left to garrison the post for a few days. General Price expects you to move promptly. I am, colonel,

very respectfully, &c.,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN., August 7, 1862.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD:

My DEAR GENERAL: I did not write you about the movement here

or during the course of it because General Bragg said he would, and he

of course could write more intelligibly than I could of the plans and

views with which the movement was undertaken. ‘To me, as matters