HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, November 30, 1864-3.45 p.m.

Major J. A. CAMPBELL,
Assistant Adjutant-General:

GENERAL: There is sharp skirmishing in my front.

Respectfully,

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO, Franklin, November 30, 1864-5.30 p.m.

General WILSON,
Commanding Cavalry:

The major-general commanding directs me to acknowledge receipt of your communication, per Colonel Wharton, of 5 p.m. He tenders his compliments and thanks. We have whipped them here at every point. The general directs me to say that he will withdraw to Brentwood tonight, but will leave the pickets out till near daylight to guard the fords, &c. He desires you to remain with your command till daylight and watch the river closely, then fall back on the flanks of the rear guard. It is barely possible he may not withdraw to-night, in which case, of course, you must maintain your position. He desires you to ascertain definitely, then, before whether the troops are gone.

Your obedient servant,

WM. M. WHERRY,

Major and Aide-de-Camp.

FRANKLIN, November 30, 1864.

Major E. B. BEAUMONT,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry Corps:

The general commanding wants you to collect all the stragglers from the Cavalry Corps in Nashville and send them out; if they have no serviceable horses, send them on foot.

JOHN N. ANDREWS,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Memphis, Tenn., November 30, 1864.

Captain E. B. BEAUMONT,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

CAPTAIN: Captain Woodward, my assistant adjutant-general, wrote you a few days since in my name. I authorized him to do so, thinking I should be in Memphis the next day, but I went to Springfield, Ill., to confer with the Adjutant-General with regard to filling up the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Illinois Cavalry Regiments. I arrived here this morning; did not see Lieutenant Noyes, of the general's staff, as he had left the afternoon before. It has finally been decided to send Winslow's brigade to Nashville, leaving the balance of the division here. This brigade consists of the Third and Fourth Iowa and Tenth Missouri, with two rifled pieces. They are splendid troops; the best in the division. General Washburn declines issuing the order until General Dana arrives. He is expected here on Saturday. As soon as the