GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 2nd Brigadier, 1ST DIV., CAV. CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Numbers 7. Louisville, Ky., December 3, 1864.

This command will march at 8 a. m. to-morrow on the Shepherdsville pike, in the following order: First Wisconsin Cavalry, Second Indiana Cavalry, Fourth Indiana Cavalry. No passes will be given in he morning, and the men must be kept in camp. The orders issued yesterday will be enforced.

By command of Colonel O. H. La Grange:

DAN. S. MOULTON,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Nashville, Tenn., December 3, 1864.

Brigadier General ELI LONG,

Commanding Second Div., Cav. Corps, Mil. Div. of the Mississippi:

GENERAL: This and an order for the seizure of every species of property necessary to put your command in an efficient condition will be handed you by Captain Van Antwerp, aide-de-camp. In executing this order, confer freely with Major Chambliss, to whom ample instructions have been sent. I sending out details, select go judges of horses, and require them to use the form of receipt herewith inclosed;* have them printed, and send the bill to Captain Carling, chief quartermaster Cavalry Corps. I cannot impress it too strongly upon you to use your utmost exertions in carrying out this order. If you should not be able to procure arms enough for your entire command by the time horses and equipments are seized, leave the unarmed portion, under command of proper officers, to come forward as soon as arms are supplies. Report to me at once and from time to time when you can be here.

I am, general, your obedient servant,

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.

SAINT LOUIS, MO., December 3, 1864.

Major-General WILSON:

Cannot leave Saint Louis before 7th instant; have marched 1,800 miles; command was broken down; did not get a horse to Saint Louis; obtained 1,100 horses here, and other equipments. Colonel Winslow's detachment will leave Memphis on 6th instant.

F. W. BENTEEN,

Colonel.

HEADQUARTERS SEVENTH OHIO VOLUNTEER CAVALRY,
Near Hyde's Ferry, December 3, 1864-12 m.

Captain W. B. SMITH,

Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, First Brigadier, Sixth Div., Cavalry Corps:

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to report that I stopped the ferry-boat communications at Buena Vista and Hyde's Ferries, by detaching the

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*Omitted.

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