NASHVILLE, November 25, 1864.

Major-General SCHOFIELD,

Columbia:

Major-General Halleck dispatches me from Washington the follows:

Dispatches from Hilton Head indicate that General Sherman has captured Macon and Milledgeville, and that Beauregard has been recalled from Tennessee, to fall on Sherman's rear. This is also indicated through Beauregard's proclamation to the people of Georgia, sent from Corinth through Selma, to rise en masse, obstruct the roads in Sherman's front, flank, and rear; waylay and shoot down his foragers and stragglers; and that he soon would he with them to help them out of their dilemma.

If this be true there will be indications of it in a day or so.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864.

Brigadier General THOMAS H. RUGER,

Commanding Second Division, Twenty-third Army corps:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you send two regiments of infantry across the Duck River, by the railroad bridge, to the switch on the railroad known as Duck River Station, about half a mile north of the bridge. They will unload cars as they arrive from here and guard stores and trains. The general suggests that you send those regiments of Colonel Strickland's brigade that are about being relieved from the interior line.

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

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864-2 p.m.

Major-General SCHOFIELD,

Commanding U. S. Forces:

The party sent to Hunter's Ford report it impassable, with approaches for only one horse at a time. The party went around also to a ford six miles below, not nearly shallow enough to use, but with good approaches. General Johnson has directed this party, one officer and fifty men, to remain where they are for the present. No sign of the enemy as far as they went.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864-6 p.m.

Major General J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Commanding U. S. Forces, Columbia:

GENERAL: The reconnaissance ordered from General Johnson's command has returned. It was unable to penetrate the enemy's line, but skirted along it from the Pulaski pike to the Campbellsville pike, skir-