HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,
Chattanooga, November 19, 1864.

Brigadier-General KING,

Lookout:

Your dispatch received. I have ordered some cavalry from Wauhatchie to move in the direction of McLemore's Cove and La Fayette. Please keep my informed of all you learn regarding the enemy.

JAMES B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,
Chattanooga, November 19, 1864.

Colonel PALMER,

Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Wauhatchie:

COLONEL: Citizens from near La Fayette and McLemore's Cove report that Wheeler is in there with his entire cavalry command. You will send strong patrols in that direction at once, with instructions to report direct to these headquarters the information they may obtain.

By command of Major-General Steedman:

S. B. MOE,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

DALTON, November 19, 1864-11.30 p. m.

Major-General STEEDMAN:

I have just received information that Wheeler intends attacking Tunnel Hill to-night or in the morning. The garrison at that post embraces only 200 men. The commanding officer these requests re-enforcements. There is no telegraph office at Tunnel Hill, but will send an operator from here to open one to-night. I am convinced Wheeler is in the vicinity. Have not mounted men to keep myself advised as I wish to.

J. B. CULVER,

Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,
Chattanooga, November 19, 1864.

Colonel CULVER,

Dalton:

Send scouting parties in the direction of La Fayette. Wheeler reported to be near La Fayette.

By command of Major-General Steedman:

S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

DALTON, November 19, 1864.

Major-General STEEDMAN,

Commanding District of the Etowah:

GENERAL: I have only four scouts here; will send them out at once. I wish you would send me down a section of artillery; have none here.

J. B. CULVER,

Colonel Thirteenth Michigan, Commanding.