GENERAL FIELD ORDERS, HDQRS. ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

Florence, Ala., November 20, 1864.

Numbers 35.

The commanding general announces to the army that on the march we are about commencing there may be a scarcity of the bread ration. He confidently appeals to the officers and men to meet this privation, should it come, in a cheerful, manly spirit with which they have heretofore encountered similar and greater hardships. The privation, at most, will be of short duration, and while it lasts the meat ration can be proportionately increased. The fruitful fields of Tennessee are before us, and as we march to repossess them let us remember that the country we traverse, perhaps with hunger, was a rich and bountiful land till wasted by the enemy, that similar desolation awaits every portion of our country relinquished to the invader, and let the privation be to us not a cause of murmuring, but an incentive and an occasion for the exhibition of a most determined patriotism.

By command of General Hood:

A. P. MASON,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL FIELD ORDERS, HDQRS. ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

Florence, Ala., November 20, 1864.

Numbers 36.

Each brigade commander will at once assign to duty a competent commissioned officer, not of higher rank than captain, as brigade provost-marshal, who will report to the provost-marshal-general of the army through division and corps provost-marshals.

By command of General Hood:

A. P. MASON,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Florence, Ala., November 20, 1864 - 4.40 p. m.

Lieutenant-General LEE,

Commanding Corps:

General Hood directs that you will continue your march to-morrow in the direction of the point indicated to you on the map by himself to-day, making as good day's march as you can. Keep in communication with General Stewart, who will be on the Lawrenceburg road and thence via Pruitt's Mill, perhaps coming into your road. If your supply wagons don't come to you before you march to-morrow morning, leave a brigade to escort them. You can communicate with General Hood to-morrow on the Waynesborough road any time after 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning.

A. P. MASON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Florence, Ala., November 20, 1864.

Major-General FORREST,

Commanding Cavalry:

General Hood directs me to say that he desires you to send forward at once small parties, under bold, reliable men, to break the enemy's railroad and telegraphic communications from Nashville to the north.