PULASKI, November 17, 1864.

Major-General THOMAS:

The platform here is entirely inadequate for the unloading of trains. Cannot the construction corps be sent down at once to extend it?

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General.

NASHVILLE, November 17, 1864.

General SCHOFIELD:

There is now a construction party on their way to Pulaski, which you can set to work to extend the platform required for the unloading of trains.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General.

PULASKI, TENN., November 17, 1864.

Captain GEORGE C. WINSLOW,

Assistant Quartermaster, Nashville, Saint Cloud Hotel:

Take charge of all trains arriving at Nashville belonging to the Army of the Ohio; see that they are fitted up and started for this point as soon as possible. Call ont he commandant of the post for a small guard for all trains you may send forward, to accompany the trains as far as Columbia, from which place Colonel Strickland will furnish guards. Report progress by telegraph.

By order of Major-General Schofield:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,

Numbers 97.
Louisville, Ky., November 17, 1864.

The following special field order is republished for the information of all concerned:

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,

Numbers 140.
In the Field, Cedar Bluff, Ala., October 25, 1864.

I. By direction of the Secretary of War, Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Ransom, chief quartermaster Department of the Ohio, is hereby relieved from duty as such.

II. Lieutenant Colonel J. F. Boyd, chief quartermaster Twenty-third Army Corps and acting chief quartermaster of the Army in the Field, is hereby announced as chief quartermaster of the Department and Army of the Ohio.

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By command of Major-General Schofield:

CLINTON A. CILLEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

By command of Major-General Stoneman:

G. M. BASCOM,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.