NASHVILLE, November 17, 1864.

Major-General STONEMAN,

Louisville, Ky.:

Your dispatch of this date just received. Your intention and order to General Burbridge to concentrate his mounted force is perfectly satisfactory, and I wish you to report to me as soon as he has the concentration of his troops completed.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.

LEXINGTON, November 17, 1864.

(Received 10.20 a. m. 18th.)

Major-General STONEMAN,

Headquarters Department of the Ohio:

Major-General Burbridge will have 1,000 men on the road to Crab Orchard by to-morrow night. Shall he push them on? To where, and by what route? We shall have 3,000 concentrated on the route you spoke of in four days, and if he has permission from headquarters to press horses from loyal as well as disloyal citizens, he can have altogether from 6,000 to 8,000 men ready in ten days. There are two field batteries mounted and complete. Telegraph orders.

M. W. KEOGH,

Major and Aide-de-Camp.

KNOXVILLE, November 17, 1864.

Colonel GIBSON, Loudon:

Colonel Dilworth with troops from below will come on train direct to this place. Last from Strawberry Plains they were fighting; our troops in good spirits.

J. AMMEN,

Brigadier-General.

KNOXVILLE, November 17, 1864.

Colonel H. G. GIBSON, Loudon:

I will try and send train for First Tennessee to-night. Call in troops from Madisonville. Have everything in readiness at Kingston to move at moment's notice. The enemy between us and Strawberry Plains in considerable.

J. AMMEN,

Brigadier-General.

HDQRS. FOURTH DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS,
Knoxville, Tenn., November 17, 1864.

Colonel C. J. DILWOTH:

Will proceed to Loudon with 500 men on train this p. m. to garrison that place. If Colonel Gibson remains at Loudon with these troops, Colonel Dilworth will return to Knoxville and take command of remainder of detachment.

By command of Brigadier-General Ammen:

W. P. AMMEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.