Colonel C. R. THOMPSON,

Johnsonville:

You will please send the following dispatch by a mounted messenger to Brigadier-General Cooper, at Centerville:

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Nashville, November 29, 1864.

Brigadier-General COOPER,
Centerville:

Move your command by the Nashville road across Harpeth River at Widow Dean's, and from there report to Major-General Schofield, at Franklin. He will give you further directions.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

KINGSTON SPRINGS, November 29, 1864-1.15 p.m.

Major-General THOMAS:

I wish to inquire if any more trains will be ordered to Johnsonville.

W. R. SELLON,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Twelfth U. S. Colored Infantry.

NASHVILLE, November 29, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel W. R. SELLON,

Kingston Springs:

No more trains will be ordered to Johnsonville.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

KINGSTON SPRINGS, November 29, 1864.

Major-General THOMAS:

The telegraphic communication with Johnsonville is broken. Shall I wait here for Colonel Thompson, or concentrate my regiment after the trains pass east and go to Nashville without waiting? I address you, as I have been told that headquarters District of Tennessee have been moved from Nashville.

W. R. SELLON,

Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Twelfth U. S. Colored Infantry.

NASHVILLE, November 29, 1864.

Colonel W. R. SELLON,

Kingston Springs:

Your dispatch of this date is just received. When the last trains pass your post going east, concentrate your regiment and the One hundredth U. S. Colonel Troops, and move back to this place.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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