BURKESVILLE, November 18, 1864.

Captain J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Men are all on the road. I will leave this evening; will have to go by Lebadon; can't bet through any other way, on account of Green River. Will have to send for 50,000 rounds of ammunition. When shall I get it?

J. W. WEATHERFORD,

Colonel Thirteenth Kentucky Cavalry.

LEXINGTON, KY., November 18, 1864.

(Via Vevay, Ind.)

Commanding OFFICER 1ST BATT., 5TH U. S. COLORED CAVALRY,

Ghent, Ky.:

Move at once with you command (First Battalion) to Crab Orchard, Ky. It is absolutely necessary that you move at once.

By order of Brigadier-General McLean:

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

LEXINGTON, KY., November 18, 1864.

(Via Vevay, Ind.)

Commanding OFFICER 1ST BATT., 5TH U. S. COLORED CAVALRY,

Ghent, Ky.:

Move at once with your command. It is absolutely that you move immediately, with 100 rounds of ammunition to each man and 150 in wagons.

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Numbers 13.
Nashville, Tenn., November 18, 1864.

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III. The Fifth Iowa Cavalry will proceed without delay to Columbia, Tenn., and report thence by telegraph to Brigadier General R. W. Johnson, commanding Sixth Cavalry Division, for duty. All unserviceable horses will be turned in at the Cavalry Bureau, and the dismounted men left to secure remounts and join the regiment as soon as ready for the field.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 2nd Brigadier, 2nd DIV., CAV. CORPS,

MILITARY DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Numbers 2.
Louisville, Ky., November 18, 1864.

I. The following officers are announced on the staff of the colonel commanding; they will be respected accordingly; Captain Robert M. McCormick, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, brigade inspector; First