NASHVILLE, November 26, 1864.

Brigadier General R. S. GRANGER,

Huntsville or Decatur:

I wish you to relieve the detachments of the Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry now in your command, and send it to Nashville, to report to Major Beaumont, assistant adjutant-general, at headquarters chief of Cavalry Corps.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.

HUNTSVILLE, November 26, 1864.

Major-General THOMAS:

Before your dispatch was received the detachment of the Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry were relieved and at the depot waiting to go on cars.

R. S. GRANGER,

Brigadier-General.

NASHVILLE, November 26, 1864.

Colonel MATZDORFF,

Franklin:

Have any cavalry force from this place reached Franklin yet? If not, report their arrival to me at this place. Say to the commanding officer of the cavalry detachment referred to that I wish him to clean out the country between Franklin and Columbia of the guerrillas now infesting it.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.

FRANKLIN, November 26, 1864

Major-General THOMAS:

The Eleventh Indiana Cavalry arrived here yesterday, and made a scouting party toward Hillsborough; they left for Columbia this morning. Two hundred and fifty-eight of the Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry arrived this evening.

A. V. MATZDORFF,

Colonel, Commanding.

NASHVILLE, November 26, 1864-1.25 p.m.

Major-General MILROY

Tullahoma:

The quartermaster's and other stores not absolutely [needed] at Tullahoma will be sent to Murfreesborough. Have you sent surplus wagons there, and when? The bridge over Duck River at Shelbyville and the bridge at Manchester should be guarded, and burned if the enemy approach in force, not without. The two infantry companies at Shelbyville will be withdrawn and substituted with cavalry, and scouts kept well out to the west. You will be expected to hold your position