PADUCAH, August 16, 1864.

Major-General BURBRIDGE:

Your dispatch received. Shall start to-night with force and two gun-boats. Have telegraphed General Ewing.

E. A. PAINE,

Brigadier-General.

LOUISVILLE, KY., August 16, 1864.

General HOBSON:

General Paine is moving from Paducah with 2,000 men. General hughes will join you from Evansville on Thursday.

HUGH EWING,

Brigadier-General.

LEXINGTON, KY., August 16, 1864.

General HUGH EWING,

Louisville, Ky.:

General Paine has been ordered to move up from Paducah to Union town, either by land or water, as he deems best, with 1,500 men, and to consult with you by telegraph so as to co-operate understanding in regard to your forces. General Hughes' militia at Evansville has been requested to co-operate with his forces, and also consult with you by telegraph.

By order of Brevet Major-General Burbridge:

J. B. DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

LOUISVILLE, August 16, 1864.

General PAINE,

Paducah, Ky.:

General Hobson will be in Calhoun with 1,000 cavalry on Thursday evening; General Hughes, of Evansville, will co-operate with him. Seven companies under Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson, FIFTY-second Kentucky, moved yesterday from Hopkinsville toward Uniontown.

HUGH EWING,

Brigadier-General.

LEXINGTON, August 16, 1864.

General JAMES HUGHES,

Evansville, Ind.:

Consult by telegraph with Brigadier-General Ewing at Louisville, and if possible co-operate with his forces in the movement against Johnson.

S. G. BURBRIDGE,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.