ORs: (CS) HQ Dept 2, Special Orders No. 148

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 754

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT No. 2,
Chattanooga, Tenn.,
August 11, 1862.

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 148.

1. The First Kentucky Cavalry and Captain Bacot’s command, four companies Forrest’s regiment, will move immediately by the most practicable route to join Brigadier-General Forrest on the Kingston and Sparta road, 20 miles west of the former, taking the Tennessee Valley road. They will carry a full supply of ammunition.

2. Martial law is hereby established within the corporate limits and environs of the town of Atlanta, Ga.

3. So much of paragraph I, Special Orders, No. 148, as relates to the First Kentucky Cavalry is revoked, and it will remain subject to the orders of Major-General Hardee, commanding Army of the Mississippi.

By command of General Bragg:

[JNO. M. OTEY,]
Assistant Adjutant-General.