NASHVILLE, December 7, 1864 - 9.15 p. m.

Admiral S. P. LEE, Clarksville:

Your dispatch of 8 p. m. is just received. Captain Fitch is here, and will go down the river at daylight to-morrow morning as far as Harpeth Shoals.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.

CHIEF QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864.

Brigadier General W. D. WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff, Headquarters Department of the Cumberland:

GENERAL: The following copy of a telegram just received id furnished you for the information of the major-general commanding:

LOUISVILLE, KY., December 7, 1864.

General Donaldson arrived this morning. Please inform General Thomas that he will leave for Nashville soon as possible.

ROBT. ALLEN,

Brigadier-General and Chief Quartermaster.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES F. RUSLING,

Captain and Asst. Qm., Actg. Chief Qm., Dept. of the Cumberland.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,

Numbers 335.
Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864.

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IV. Brigadier General K. Garrard, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty with the Second Cavalry Division, and will report in person to Major General A. J. Smith, commanding the Detachment Army of the Tennessee, for assignment to duty.

V. Paragraph I, Special Field Orders, Numbers 333, current series, from these headquarters, assignment Major General D. N. Couch, U. S. Volunteer, to duty with the Fourth Army Corps, is hereby revoked. Major-General Couch will report in person to Major General J. M. Schofield, commanding Twenty-third Army Corps, for assignment to duty.

VI. Colonel Doolittle, Eighteenth Michigan Volunteers, is hereby relieved from duty with Brigadier-General Miller, commanding post, and will report for temporary duty to Brigadier-General Cox, commanding Third Division, Twenty-third Army Corps.

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By command of Major-General Thomas:

HENRY M. CIST,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
December 7, 1864 - 8. 30 a. m.

Major-General THOMAS:

Your telegram of the 6th instant received this morning. I shall readily serve wherever I am ordered, but cannot, of my own election, take a position that throw me into a lesser command.

D. N. COUCH,

Major-General.