NASHVILLE, TENN., November 15, 1864.

Colonel W. B. SIPES, Columbia:

You have been relieved by order of Major-General Thomas. The Fifth Iowa Cavalry is here, and is ordered to Columbia.

By command of Major-General Rousseau:

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. MILITARY DIST. OF KENTUCKY,

Numbers 63.
Lexington, Ky., November 15, 1864.

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VII. In accordance with instructions from the Secretary of War, Colonel S. A. Porter, One hundred and twenty-third Regiment U. S. Colored Infantry, is temporarily assigned to duty as commandant of the draft rendezvous, Louisville, Ky., and will take command at once.

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IX. The Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry Volunteers is assigned to the First Division, Military District of Kentucky. Colonel G. W. Gallup, commanding, will report in person to Brigadier General N. C. McLean for orders assigning his regiment to Catlettsburg and Louisa and himself to command of the latter post.

By command of Brevet Major-General Burbridge:

J. BATES DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
Louisville, Ky., November 15, 1864.

Brigadier General J. AMMEN, Knoxville, Tenn.:

Your telegram of yesterday received. Please send me particulars. Have you, including the troops under General Gillem, force enough to cope with the enemy? Is General Gillem acting under your orders?

GEO. STONEMAN,

Major-General, Commanding.

KNOXVILLE, November 15, 1864.

Major-General STONEMAN, Louisville, Ky.:

My infantry back, three lost. I have force to hold this place, and probably Strawberry Plains, but not to advance. General Gillem is here; his force badly routed, but coming in; his loss not known yet; his battery and wagon train captured; he is not acting under my orders. The enemy probably 3,000 or 4,000.

J. AMMEN.

HDQRS. FOURTH DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS,
Knoxville, Tenn., November 15, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel G. M. BASCOM,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Ohio:

COLONEL: Major-General Schofield directed me to assume command of and use in case of an emergency the forces under General Gillem. When I informed him of this General Gillem sent me a copy of Special