V. Colonel W. W. Wheeler, commanding Twenty-eighth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, will report in person to Brigadier General John F. Miller, U. S. Volunteers, with his regiment, for temporary duty with the garrison at Nashville.

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By command of Major-General Thomas:

HENRY M. CIST,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, December 9, 1864.

Major General JOHN M. SCHOFIELD,
Commanding Twenty-third Army Corps:

What news have you of the position this morning, and have the enemy's lines been changed or any movement on his part been discovered?

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

(Same to Major General A. J. Smith, commanding Detachment army of the Tennessee; Brigadier General Thomas J. Wood, commanding Fourth Army Corps; Major General James B. Steedman, commanding District of the Etowah.)

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, December 9, 1864.

Major General JOHN M. SCHOFIELD,
Commanding Twenty-third Army Corps:

Owing to the severity of the storm raging to-day it is found necessary to postpone the operations designed for to-morrow morning until the breaking up the storm. I desire, however, that everything be put in condition to carry out the plan contemplated as soon as the weather will permit it to be done, so that we can act instantly when the storm clears away. Acknowledge receipt.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

(Same to Major General A. J. Smith, commanding Detachment Army of the Tennessee; Major General J. B. Steedman, commanding District of the Etowah; Brigadier General Thomas J. Wood, commanding Fourth Army Corps.)

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS, December 9, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,
Chief of Staff:

Everything along the line is apparently in the same condition as yesterday; no change perceptible.

TH. J. WOOD,

Brigadier-General.