duty) patrol the river from Gallatin up to Carthage and beyond, and from Gallatin to this place, keeping a sharp lookout for any attempted crossing of the enemy, and promptly making a report through you to myself if such a movement is discovered. You will be held responsible that this order is faithfully and fully carried out. Acknowledge receipt.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

GALLATIN, TENN., December 9, 1864.

Major General G. H. THOMAS:

Your order by telegraph directing me to have the Tennessee River patrolled by Second Tennessee Cavalry,* Colonel Murphy, is received.

JAMES GILFILLAN,

Colonel Eleventh Minnesota Infantry, Commanding Post.

CLARKSVILLE, December 9, 1864.

Major General G. H. THOMAS:

There are 2,485 tons of Government stores, and barge of hay, and thirty-three ambulances, here. One car would carry between six and seven tons on this railroad. Quartermaster cannot state how long it will take to unload. In addition to quartermaster's force, I have detailed as many men as have room to work on levee.

A. A. SMITH,

Colonel, Commanding.

NASHVILLE, December 9, 1864.

Colonel A. A. SMITH,

Clarksville:

Your dispatch of this a.m. is received. Unload the transports as rapidly as possible and store away, for protection against the weather, all the stores you can, until they can be brought away by rail, which will be as rapidly as possible.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

BRIDGEPORT, December 9, 1864.

Brigadier General T. F. MEAGHER:

A scout just arrived reports detachments from the Seventh Alabama and Third Confederate Cavalry leaving Lebanon, De Kalb County, Ala., on the 7th instant for the purpose of attacking the railroad at Whiteside's, and that they camped in Will's Valley on the night of the 7th instant, a distance of about twenty miles from Whiteside's.

M. C. TAYLOR,

Commanding.

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*Mounted infantry.

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