CEDAR GAP, November 27, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE:

Started from Huntsville last evening with my regiment. Six miles out track torn up and six cars thrown in ditch; six men injured. Saved the stores and burned cars. Will proceed this evening. One hundred and fifty yards track torn up. Country full of squads rebel cavalry. No large force in vicinity.

G. M. L. JOHNSON,

Colonel Thirteenth Indiana.

JOHNSONVILLE, November 27, 1864

Major General GEORGE H. THOMAS;

Citizens reported to our mounted men near Duck River that Hood was fortifying at Waynesborough. Have no evidence of the report being true. The citizens were not known by the commander.

C. R. THOMPSON,

Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, November 27, 1864-12 m.

Colonel C. R. THOMPSON

Johnsonville:

Have you had the pickets and patrols posted along the north bank of Duck River, as I told you when here?

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

JOHNSONVILLE, November 27, 1864

Major-General THOMAS:

The Second Tennessee picket the lower fords, and the mounted men of the Twelfth and Thirteenth U. S. Colored Infantry patrol above. The One hundredth have no effective mounted men, as they have no saddles; have directed them to get some without delay.

C. R. THOMPSON,

Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, November 27, 1864-9 a.m.

Major-General STEEDMAN:

Do you think you could throw your force of 5,000 men on Tuscumbia, Ala., and destroy the enemy's pontoon bridge, by using the Memphis and Charleston road to convey your troops rapidly to Decatur and moving light from there? By relaying the pontoon bridge you could take your troops and artillery across at Decatur.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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