Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865

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1st Lieutenant A. R. Chisolm	A. D. C.
1st Lieutenant A. N. Toutant	A. D. C.
Colonel George W. Brent	A. A. G.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Otey	A. A. G.
Major Henry Bryan	A. I. G.
Major J. B. Eustis	A. I. G.
Major-General M. L. Smith	Chief of Engineers.
Major Edward Willis	Chief Quartermaster.
Major F. Molloy	Chief Commissary.
Surgeon R. L. Brodie	Medical Director.
Surgeon Samuel Choppin	Medical Inspector.

The Medical Director, Chief Quartermaster, and Chief Commissary will act only as inspectors of their respective Departments until further orders.

All communications to the Headquarters of this Military Division will be addressed to this place until further notice.

G. T. Beauregard, General.
Official. Geo. W. Brent, A. A. G.

The general outlines of the Military Division of the West were given in the preceding chapter, but it is necessary here to specify more minutely its precise limits. These are indicated and explained in the following orders forwarded from the War Department to General Beauregard:

Richmond, Va., Oct. 3d, 1864.
General G. T. Beauregard:

The Department of Tennessee and Georgia, under General Hood, includes all of the State of Georgia north and west of the following line: commencing at Augusta and running along the line of the Augusta and Savannah Railroad to Milton; thence along the western boundary-lines of the counties of Bullock and Tatnall; thence along the south bank of the Ocmulgee River to the northeast corner of Irwin County; thence south to the Florida line and to the Appalachicola River. All the territory west of this Department and the Appalachicola River, and east of the Mississippi River, forms the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, under Lieutenant-General Taylor. Special order has been this day issued placing you in command of both these Departments.

S. Cooper, A. and I. G.

On the day on which General Beauregard assumed command (October 17th) he caused the following proclamation to be issued:

Circular.

Headquarters, Military division of the West, Jacksonville, Ala., Oct. 17th, 1864.

In assuming command, at this critical juncture, of the Military Division of the West I appeal to my countrymen, of all classes and sections, for their generous support and confidence.

In assigning me to this responsible position the President of the