INDIANAPOLIS, August 24, 1864.

(Received 4. 10 p. m.)

Lieutenant Colonel S. H. LATHROP,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General:

Forty-ninth [Indiana] has left for Lexington. Examination at Camp Morton shows 2,000 prisoners sworn to make outbreak, regularly organized.

H. B. CARRINGTON,

Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, near Atlanta, August 24, 1864-8. 45 p. m.

General WASHBURN, Memphis:

I have your dispatch to General Howard. If you get a chance send word to Forrest I admire his dash but not his judgment. The oftener he runs his head against Memphis the better. I hope your militia had a good chance. This case illustrates the importance of converting those armories into regular citadels, with loop-holes and flanks. See to it.

W. T. SHERMAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE TENNESSEE,
August 24, 1864. (Received 27th.)

Major General C. C. WASHBURN, Memphis:

Your dispatch of August 21 received. I am highly pleased with the result. Push the enemy, smash them up, and scatter them.

O. O. HOWARD,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF WEST TENNESSEE,
Memphis, Tenn., August 24, 1864.

Major General E. R. S. CANBY,

Commanding Military DIVISION of WEST Mississippi:

GENERAL: I have to inform you that just at daylight on Sunday morning, the 21st instant, this city was attacked by General Forrest, with a force of three brigades of cavalry, numbering from 2,500 to 3,000. The force was led by Forrest in person, and left General A. J. Smith's front, at Oxford, Miss., on the evening of the 18th, and marched day and night, the distance being about 100 miles. About one-THIRD of the force dashed right over the pickets, and through two regiments of 100-days' men without stopping to fight, and dividing into three parties, one made direct to these headquarters, another to the Gayoso House, where Major-General Hurlbut was supposed to be staying, and the THIRD to the headquarters of Brigadier-General Buckland, commanding District of Memphis. Fortunately, General Hurlbut was staying out of the house that night and escaped without molestation, while General Buckland and myself were barely abel to do so.

The troops inside the city rallied immediately, and in a very short time the rebels beat a hasty retreat. Their haste was so great that