CHIEF QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Nashville, Tenn., December 6, 1864.

Captain E. B. CARLING,

Assistant Quartermaster, Cavalry Corps:

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to inform you that the quartermaster's department is engaged to-day in laying a pontoon bridge across the Cumberland, from near the end of Church street to the opposite bank of the river, for the purpose of accommodating the cavalry trains and for other purposes. It will be a double-track bridge, and the regulation will be for trains coming this way to use one track, and those going the other way, the other. I expect to have it ready for service to-night, or in the morning at the farthest. Please notify General Wilson of the arrangement, and oblige.

Very respectfully,

JAS. F. RUSLING,

Captain and Assistant Quartermaster and Acting Chief Quartermaster, Department of the Cumberland.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Numbers 29.
Nashville, December 6, 1864.

I. Captain J. D. Moxley, First Ohio Cavalry, is hereby detailed as acting assistant inspector-general, and will report to Lieutenant Colonel G. G. Miner, commanding dismounted cavalry, at Camp Webster, for duty.

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III. Major J. M. Young, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, is hereby detailed as provost-marshal, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, and will report to thee headquarters when relieved from duty on general court-martial.

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By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR,
HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISS.,

Numbers 2.
Edgefield, Tenn., December 6, 1864.

Division commanders will take immediate measures to concentrate the whole of their respective commands at this point by noon of Friday, the 9th instant. They will also use every exertion to get all the horses possible by that time.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

A. J. ALEXANDER,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Edgefield, Tenn., December 6, 1864.

Colonel LA GRANDE,

Commanding Brigade, First Division:

COLONEL: An order is in force from the Secretary of War permitting General Wislon to press a sufficient number of serviceable horses to mount his command. He has had parties out in this vicinity some