| Circular |
| Headquarters Army of Tennessee |
| Tullahoma |
| January 31, 1863 |
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| Corps commanders will immediately cause
the following instructions, for the government of bridge guards, to be
published to all details from your corps now guarding bridges: |
| I. Officers in charge of bridge guards
will be held personally responsible for any damages arising from
drift lodging against the bridges in their charge. |
| II. All the floating wood or logs must
be passed through at once, not allowing them to pile up. |
| III. Should any defect deemed unsafe, be
noticed in the track, the approaching train must be signaled to stop
at least one-quarter of a mile from the bridge--in daylight by
waving a red flag up and down violently, and at night by waving a
torchlight or lantern across the track, and the nature of the defect
must be at once explained to the conductor. |
| By command of General Bragg: |
| George Wm. Brent |
| Assistant Adjutant-General |