good route can be had on east side of Yadkin River, and through a country that is represented to be sufficiently productive to furnish forage and commissary stores for the command.
The Yadkin is crossed on bridge at this point, and there will be no ferrying on the route.
The left flank of the column will be protected by the Yadkin River, which at this season is said to be beyond fording.
Immediate steps will be taken to establish communications with General Beauregard by Charlotte. W. D. Pickett, Lieut.-Col.
Headquarters, armies C. S., Feb. 22d, 1865.
Special order no. 3:
General J. E. Johnston, C. S. A., is hereby assigned to the command of the two military departments known as the Department of Tennessee and Georgia, and the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the troops therein.
He will proceed at once to effect a concentration of all available forces and make the necessary dispositions to thwart the designs of the enemy operating in those
