bad and muddy roads, besides all their foraging being done by picking up here and there what could be found and packing it many miles to camp. An effort was made to obtain shoes both at Pulaski and Columbia before coming down here, unsuccessfully.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HORACE CAPRON,

Colonel, Commanding Brigade, Cavalry Corps, Mil. Div. of the Miss.

NASHVILLE, TENN., November 23, 1864.

Brigadier-General VAN CLEVE,

Murfreesborough, Tenn.:

Major-General Rousseau directs me to request you to please meet me at railroad station this evening to receive verbal instructions with reference to contemplated movements. I leave Nashville on the 2.15 train for Stevenson, and will require about five minutes.

THOS. C. WILLIAMS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, November 23, 1864-2 p.m.

Major-General MILROY,

Tullahoma, Tenn.:

I am directed to proceed to Stevenson, under orders from Major-General Rousseau, and to request you to please meet me at Tullahoma this evening to receive verbal directions with reference to contemplated operations. I leave here on the 2.15 train. What I have to communicate will require about five minutes. [The] major-general requires that you will be at the station, in order that I can proceed to Stevenson at once to-night, after giving you his instructions.

THOS. C. WILLIAMS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,
Chattanooga, November 23, 1864.

Major-General THOMAS,

Nashville:

I will relieve the men of the First and Second Ohio Heavy Artillery to-day and order the First Ohio Artillery to Knoxville.

Respectfully,

J. B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.

NASHVILLE, November 23, 1864.

Major SOUTHARD HOFFMAN,

Chattanooga:

What sharpshooters are there in Chattanooga? The general wishes them to prepare for field service as headquarters guards.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.