ORs: (CS) Special Orders, No. 3 - September 25, 1862

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 876-7

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT No. 2,
Bardstown, Ky.,
September 25, 1862.

(Rec’d Hdqrs. Army of the West, Nov. 19, 1862.)

SPECIAL ORDERS, No. 3.

I. Brig. Gen. N. B. Forrest is relieved from duty with this army, and is charged with the military operations in Middle Tennessee. He is alithorized to raise six regiments of new troops, two of cavalry and four of infantry, and muster them into the Confederate States service. With these and such corps as he may find already organized he will operate against the enemy wherever found, but especially at Nashville, Clarksvile, &c., cutting off supplies, capturing trains, and harassing them in all ways practicable.

II. Requisitions will be made on Maj. Gen. Samuel Jones at Chattanooga for arms and ammunition.

III. The four companies of Forrest’s cavalry will report to the general as his escort on this service and remain subject to his order.

By command of General Bragg:

JNO. M. OTEY,
Assistant Adjutant-General.