HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DEPARTMENT,
Columbus, Ohio, August 30, 1864 - 5. 30 p. m.

COMMANDING OFFICER,

Gallipolis, Ohio:

You will obtain information of movements of the rebels on the Kanawha River, and report frequently.

By command of Major-General Heintzelman:

C. H. POTTER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 30, 1864.

(Received 1. 40 p. m.)

A. LINCOLN,

President:

My connection with the State militia having drawn my attention specially to the subject of our border defenses, I trust I may be pardoned for suggesting one or two matters of pressing necessity. The country between the Cumberland and Green Rivers, the resort of guerrillas, ought to be attached to the District of Indiana, and the commander of that district made independent of General Heintzelman. These two things, with an officer of General Hovey's energy and ability in charge, will enable [us] to defend the border of Indiana on the Kentucky side, check up the guerrillas bands, and insure large Government supplies to be drawn from the district residents who harbor the guerrillas. I have been on the ground and speak advisedly.

JAS. HUGHES.

[AUGUST 30, 1864. - For Canby to Washburn, in relation to the transfer of General A. J. Smith's command to Arkansas, see Vol. XLI.]

HEADQUARTERS,
Burkesville, Ky., August 31, 1864.

General BURBRIDGE:

We have reliable information that Wheeler is at McMinnville with large force; that Dibrell's advance was at Livingston last night. Two companies went toward Albany, Ky., and that 63 of Colonel Stokes' [regiment] were captured by them.

JOS. GILKISON.

LEXINGTON, August 31, 1864.

Major RIGNEY,

Commanding, Burkesville, Ky.:

Keep a look out and don't be captured. Keep these headquarters posted; also Colonel Brown, at Camp Burnside.

By order of General McLean:

J. S. BUTLER,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.