HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Near Nashville, Tenn., December 3, 1864.

Brigadier General W. D. WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff and Assistant Adjutant-General:

GENERAL: I have the honor to report for the information of the commanding general of the forces that I have examined the entire line of defense occupied by my command, and can report it in a very defensible state now, and in a few hours more I think it will be impregnable. I will keep the men employed till the work is completed.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

TH. J. WOOD,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers, Commanding.

CIRCULAR,
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 22. Nashville, December 3, 1864-6 p. m.

Division commanders will have reveille at 4.30 a. m. to-morrow. at the earliest appearance of daylight the troops must be under arms; at 5.30 a. m. division offices of the day and picket officers must be on the line to see that all is right. Division commanders will promptly report any movement of the enemy that may be discerned to-morrow morning.

By command of Brigadier-General Wood:

J. S. FULLERTON,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Nashville, Tenn., December 3, 1864-10 p. m.

Brigadier-General BEATTY,

Commanding Third Division:

The general commanding directs that you relieve that Fortieth Regiment Missouri Infantry and Tenth Kansas Infantry, at daylight to morrow morning, from duty with your division, and order them to report to Major General A. J. Smith. This in accordance with orders received from headquarters Department of the Cumberland.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. H. SINCLAIR,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. FIRST BRIGADE, THIRD DIVISION, 23rd ARMY CORPS,
Nashville, Tenn., December 3, 1864.

Captain THEO. COX,

Asst. Adjt. General, Third Division, Twenty-third Army Corps:

CAPTAIN: In compliance with instructions, I would respectfully state that there was no estimate of the prisoners taken on the 30th ultimo; they were ordered to the rear as soon as received in our lines. There were no arms captured, all being left on the field.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. W. REILLY,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

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