SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DETACH. ARMY OF THE TENN.,

No. 152. Nashville, Tenn., December 9, 1864.

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VI. The Tenth Kansas Volunteer Infantry is hereby assigned to the Second Brigade of the Second Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, and will forthwith report to Colonel J. I. Gilbert, commanding brigade, for orders,

By order of Major General A. J. Smith:

J. HOUGH,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIVISION,

No. 165. DETACHMENT ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,

Near Nashville, Tenn., December 9, 1864.

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II. In obedience to Special Orders, No. 152, extract 7, headquarters Detachment Army of the Tennessee, dated Nashville, Tenn., December 9, 1864, the Eighth Regiment Iowa Infantry Volunteers will be dropped from the returns and rosters of the First Division. All me in this command belonging to that regiment will immediately be sent to it at Memphis, Tenn.

By command of Brigadier General J. McArthur:

W. H. F. RANDALL,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL STEEDMAN'S HEADQUARTERS, December 9, 1864.

Major General G. H. THOMAS,

Commanding:

Your dispatch received. No news whatever this morning. The enemy's lines and position remain unchanged. He is perfectly quiet in my front.

J. B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.

GENERAL STEEDMAN'S HEADQUARTERS, December 9, 1864-2.45 p.m.

Major General G. H. THOMAS:

Your dispatch received. I will carry out your instructions.

J. B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General of Volunteers.

GENERAL STEEDMAN'S HEADQUARTERS, December 9, 1864-6 p.m.

Major-General THOMAS:

Everything quiet in my front; no change of position in camps of enemy to-day. I am constructing the dam of Brown's Creek, on the Lebanon pike; can by a succession of dams overflow my entire front.

J. B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.