CHATTANOOGA, November 23, 1864.

Brigadier General W. D. WHIPPLE:

There are three companies of sharpshooters here, 180 and 200 men. Sixty men are up the river cutting timber; they will be down Saturday, unless sooner ordered.

SOUTWARD HOFFMAN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, November 23, 1864.

Major S. HOFFMAN,

Chattanooga:

Orders the sharpshooters down the river at once. Kellogg left here for Chattanooga this morning.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CHIEF OF ARTILLERY,
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Numbers 80.
Chattanooga, Tenn., November 23, 1864.

I. Captain H. Dilger, First Ohio Artillery, will assume command of Fort Phelps, relieving Captain Prescott and receipting to that officer for all public property now in the fort. Immediately on being relieved Captain Prescott will report for duty to these headquarters.

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By command of Major-General Thomas:

J. M. BRANNAN,

Brigadier General and Chief of Artillery, Dept. of the Cumberland.

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

Colonel HAWLEY,

Cleveland:

As soon as relieved you will proceed with your command to Knoxville. You must arrive there to-morrow night. The four companies this way have been relieved and ordered to Knoxville to-morrow. You will take the train that brings troops to relieve you.

By command of Major-General Steedman:

S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, November 24 [23], 1864-2 p.m.

Brigadier-General COOPER,

Johnsonville:

March as early to-morrow as you can with your brigade and the battery now with it to Centreville, by the road through Waverly. On arriving at Centreville, post your troops so as to guard the ford across Duck River at that place and Beard's Ferry, about five or ten miles