LEXINGTON, November 24, 1864.

Brigadier General N. C. McLEAN:

Colonel Brisbin telegraphs from Barboursville this morning:

Here all right, and just starting to the front; will reach Cumberland Gap to-night. In best of spirits. Enemy at Morrison, and to-night will be in striking distance.

J. BATES DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

LOUISVILLE, KY., November 24, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff:

Colonel Sipes and Captain Garrett are here. Must I send them down at once? Colonel Sipes is under orders from General Wilson.

THOS. S. FAIRLEIGH,

Lieutenant-Colonel Twenty-sixth Kentucky, Commanding Post.

NASHVILLE, November 24, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel THOMAS B. FAIRLEIGH,

Commanding, Louisville, Ky.:

Order Colonel Sipes and Captain Garret to this city to report to General Rousseau.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., November 24, 1864.

Brigadier General S. MEREDITH:

GENERAL: The First Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, and one brigade Seventeenth Army Corps, have embarked, and are now under way for Cairo. The Third Division, Sixteenth Army Corps, are now embarking. I leave for Cairo at 10 a.m. Send all the troops that were to report to me at Paducah direct by water to Nashville, as ordered, unless you have received other orders from General Thomas.

A. J. SMITH,

Major-General.