HEADQUARTERS MILITARY
DIVISION OF THE WEST,
Tuscumbia, Ala.,
November 17, 1864.
General J. B. HOOD,
Commanding Army of Tennessee, &c.:
GENERAL: General Beauregard directs me to say that he
desires you will take the offensive at the earliest practicable moment and deal
the enemy rapid and vigorous blows, striking him while thus dispersed, and by
this means distract Sherman's advance into Georgia. To relieve you from any
embarrassment whilst operating in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, he
authorizes you to issue all such orders in General Taylor's department as you
may deem necessary to secure the efficient and successful administration and
operation of your army, sending General Taylor, or whoever may be in command,
copies of all orders. He wishes you to send forthwith to Major-General Wheeler
one brigade of cavalry of Jackson's division, and the balance of that division
as soon as it can be spared, should Sherman advance into Georgia, and also to
advise General Wheeler that in such case Clanton's brigade is subject to his
orders. The headquarters of this military division will be removed in the
morning from this place to Montgomery, Ala.
1 am, general, respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEORGE WM. BRENT,
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
45, Part 1 (Serial No. 93), p. 1215; John Bell Hood, Advance and
Retreat, p. 277
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