HEADQUARTERS POST, CAMP DOUGLAS,
Chicago, Ill., December 10, 1864.

Colonel N. P. CHIPMAN,

Acting Aide-de-Camp, Washington, D. C.:

Judge Buckner S. Morris was arrested on the night of the 6th November, by my order, for assisting prisoners of war to escape, relieving the enemy with money, holding correspondence with the enemy, and complicity with the plot to attack Camp Douglass. For full particulars, see my report* to Brigadier General H. W. Wessels, Commissary-General of Prisoners, of date November 23. Judge-Advocate Burnett is now here investigating and arranging for trial.

B. J. SWEET,

Colonel, Commanding Post.

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 10, 1864-1 p.m.

Major-General DANA,

Memphis:

General Grant ordered all available troops in Missouri to re-enforce General Thomas at Nashville. All cavalry horses in the West were also ordered there, to remount General Thomas' cavalry. As soon as the crisis there has passed horses will be again sent down the Mississippi River. In the meantime you must do the best you can with the means at your disposal.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

WASHINGTON, D. C., December 10, 1864-10.30 a.m.

Major-General DODGE,

Saint Louis:

General Thomas has more cavalry now than he can mount, and requires all the horses to mount his own men. If you can send him infantry or artillery please do so. If the Cumberland River is closed they should go by Louisville. Whatever you can send can be returned as soon as the crisis is passed.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

SAINT LOUIS, December 10, 1864-4 p.m.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Washington, D. C.:

I send five regiments of infantry, all there are in the department organized subject to be sent outside of State; one regiment of cavalry well mounted, and will send batteries. They go by rail.

G. M. DODGE,

Major-General.

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*See Part I, p.1076.

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