MAJOR-GENERAL STEEDMAN'S HEADQUARTERS, December 10, 1864.

Major General G. H. THOMAS:

Your message received. The enemy's lines and position appear to be unchanged. He is perfectly quiet. I am confident his right has not been changed since I saw you.

JAMES B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General of Volunteers.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,

No. 61. Chattanooga, December 10, 1864.

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II. Colonel A. O. Millington, commanding Eighteenth U. S. Colored Infantry, will move his regiment, without delay, to Bridgeport, Ala., by special train, and report his arrival at that point to Colonel M. C. Taylor, commanding post.

By order of Brigadier-General Meagher:

H. A. FORD,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

[DECEMBER 10, 1864.-For abstract from return of the District of Tennessee, commanded by Major General Lovel H. Rousseau, U. S. Army, see Part I, p.58.]

[DECEMBER 10, 1864.-For abstract from return of the District of the Etowah, commanded by Major General James B. Steedman, U. S. Army, see Part I, p.59.]

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. CAV. CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISS.,

No. 33. Nashville, Tenn., December 10, 1864.

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V. Brigadier General J. H. Hammond, U. S. Volunteers, having reported for duty at these headquarters, is assigned to the command of the First Brigade, Seventh Cavalry Division, Military Division of the Mississippi, Brigadier General J. F. Knipe, commanding. This order to date from November 25, 1864.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISS.,

Nashville, Tenn., December 10, 1864.

Division commanders will take instant measures to mount regiments complete by dismounting partially dismounted regiments. Those to be mounted will be selected from the best armed and disciplined regiments in the command. These changes will be made to-day, and division