PULASKI, TENN., November 20, 1864.

Brigadier-General RUGER,

Johnsonville:

Leave General Cooper's brigade and the battery at Johnsonville.

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS,
Johnsonville, Tenn., November 20, 1864.

Colonel O. H. MOORE,

Commanding Second Brigade, Second Division:

SIR: You will move your brigade to Columbia, Tenn. As fast as cars are furnished, you will see that they are loaded without delay. A train of cars sufficient to carry 500 men will be ready to start to-morrow morning at quarter after 8 o'clock. I am informed that cars to carry the remainder of your brigade will be here some time to-morrow. You will have the 500 men loaded and ready to start at 8.15 to-morrow morning. Your men will carry at least two days' rations in haversacks, and if the amount of rations on hand is not greater than five days they will be taken with the troops.

I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

S. H. HUBBELL,

First Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Pulaski, Tenn., November 20, 1864.

Brigadier General J. D. COX,

Commanding Third Division:

GENERAL: The commanding general directs that you have your command in readiness to march at once with three days' full rations. Information has been received at these headquarters that the rebel Forrest is advancing.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Pulaski, Tenn., November 20, 1864.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff:

GENERAL: I have received a copy of your letter* to Major General W. T. Sherman, dated War Department, October 4, 1864, giving the opinion and decision of the honorable Secretary of War upon the question of rank between army commanders and their seniors serving with them. I very respectfully desire to state that the case upon which this decision is founded is an imaginary one, so far as I am concerned. No dispute upon the subject of rank has ever occurred between General Schofield and myself. He was not under my orders at the battle of

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*See Vol. XXXIX, Part III, p.64.

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