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HEADQUARTERS, Powhatan, September 14, 1864.
Lieutenant Colonel L. A. MACLEAN, Assistant Adjutant-General: COLONEL: You communication dated yesterday is just received. It is impossible from the scarcity of forage and subsistence to concentrate my command except when on the move, and I have therefore encamped the different brigades composing it as follows, viz: McCray's brigade, eight miles east of this place on the Gainesville road; Dobbin's brigade, fifteen miles south of this on the Jacksonport road; Colonels Jackman and Freeman with their brigades on Spring River, fifteen miles north, and Shelby's brigade, under Colonel Shanks, at Smithville, twelve miles west. Colonel Kitchen, with 600 or 700 men, is encamped at Gainesville, and Colonels Lyles and Rogan are on Crowley's Ridge. Orders have been sent Colonel Lyles, who is in command of those two regiments, which are as yet unorganized, to move without delay to Gainesville, Greene County. Division headquarters have been established at Powhatan, on Black River.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JO. O. SHELBY.