HDQRS. FOURTH DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS,

Knoxville, Tenn., November 17, 1864.

Brigadier General ALVAN C. GILLEM:

GENERAL: Inclosed I send you a copy of telegram* from Colonel Trowbridge requesting your co-operation at Stawburry Plains. Please send as large a force as you can, and with as little delay as practicable.

Very respectfully, your most obedient servant,

J. AMMEN,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
Louisville, November 17, 1864.

Colonel W. Y. DILLARD,

Commanding, Cumberland Gap:

Have you any information regarding the movements of the enemy between the Holston River and the Cumberland Mountains? Keep scouts out, and report your information direct to these headquarters by telegraph.

By command of Major-General Stoneman:

G. M. BASCOM,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CUMBERLAND GAP, November 17, 1864.

Major-General STONEMAN:

I have heard nothing definite from the enemy since morning. He was then on the east side of the Holston River at Strawberry Plains, in front of General Ammen. A large body of rebels are reported at Jonesville, coming down the valley. My informant says they are commanded by Breckinridge in person. I do not place much credit in the report. I have a scout in that direction.

W. Y. DILLARD.

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY,
Lexington, Ky., November 17, 1864.

Brigadier General N. C. McLEAN,

Commanding First Division:

GENERAL: The general commanding directs as follows, viz: You will order the immediate concentration at Crab Orchard of the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, Thirteenth Kentucky Cavalry, Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, Twentieth [Thirtieth?] and Twenty-ninth [Thirty-ninth?] Kentucky Mounted Infantry. Ten days' rations for these troops will be started at once from Camp Nelson for Crab Orchard. The regiments will be supplied with 100 rounds of ammunition per man, and, in addition, 150 rounds per man will be taken in wagons. Every exertion will be made to have these troops at Crab Orchard without delay. You wills end an officer to Camp Nelson to superintended the

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