HEADQUARTERS THIRD DIVISION, FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
December 7, 1864.

Colonel A. D. STREIGHT,

First Brigade:

COLONEL: I am directed to recall the order announcing Major-General Couch as in command of the corps. If you have promulgated it to your regiments, please recall it.

By order of Brigadier-General Beatty:

M. P. BESTOW,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE OHIO,

Numbers 173.
Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864.

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VIII. The Twenty-sixth Kentucky Infantry is hereby assigned to the First Brigade, Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps.

IX. The Twenty-eighth Michigan Infantry is hereby assigned to the Third Division, Twenty-third Army Corps. The division commander will assign it to a brigade.

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By command of Major-General Schofield:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

[Indorsement on General Schofield's report of December 7, 1864.*]

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864.

Respectfully forwarded to the Adjutant-General of the Army, cordially recommending the gallantry and skill of Major-General Schofield to the commendation of the War Department.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. FIRST Brigadier, DIV. 17TH A. C.,

Numbers 1.
Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864.

In compliance with Special Orders, Numbers 93, headquarters Division Seventeenth Army Corps, of this date, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the First Brigade, Division Seventeenth Army Corps. The following is announced as the organization of the brigade staff: Adjt. John M. Read, Fourteenth Wisconsin Infantry, acting assistant adjutant-general; Captain George B. Carter, Thirty-third Wisconsin Infantry, acting assistant inspector-general; First Lieutenant O. R. Potter, Fourteenth Wisconsin Infantry, acting assistant quartermaster.

L. M. WARD,

Colonel Fourteenth Wisconsin Infantry.

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* See Part I, p. 341.

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