WASHINGTON, August 12, 1864.

(Received 23d.)

Major General E. R. S. CANBY: "

General Sherman telegraphs that if Mobile is captured a demonstration on the Alabama River will give him much aid.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
WAR DEPT., ADJT. GENERAL'S OFFICE, Numbers 268.
Washington, August 12, 1864.

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5. Brigadier General H. E. Paine, U. S. Volunteers, is relieved from general court-martial duty in this city, and will repair without delay to Springfield, Ill., from which place he will report by letter to Major-General Heintzelman, commanding Northern Department, for assignment to the command of the Military District of Illinois.

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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Cumberland, Gap, August 13, 1864.

Captain W. P. AMMEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

By a rebel deserter just come in I learn that Colonel Pridemore's and Colonel Johnson's commands, both rebels, had a severe fight between their respective commands, in which Johnson was worsted, losing 6 killed and 7 wounded. He says 150 of Pridemore's men intend coming in and giving themselves up.

W. Y. DILLARD.

Colonel, Commanding.

LOUISVILLE, KY., August 13, 1864

Captain J. BATES DICKSON, Lexington, Ky.:

Where can I communicate with General Hobson? He should treat Johnson and his gang as without the protection of the laws of war. Johnson should be assailed without delay; he is doing much harm.

HUGH EWING,

Brigadier-General.

LEXINGTON, KY., August 13, 1864.

Brigadier General HUGH EWING, Louisville, Ky.:

General Hobson is either at Lebanon or en route, via New Haven, to Elizabethtown. General McLean has been directed to hurry him up.

J. BATES DICKSON.

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

[AUGUST 13, 1864. - For Sherman to Halleck (two dispatches), referring to operations in Mobile Bay and on the Alabama River, &c., see Vol. XXXVIII, Part V, p. 482.]