HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE, December 11, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,
Chief of Staff:

All quiet in my front; not as may picket fires on my right front; on the left everything remains the same.

A. J. SMITH,

Major-General.

GENERAL STEEDMAN'S HEADQUARTERS, December 11, 1864.

Major General G. H. THOMAS:

Can I defer visiting your quarters to 2 p.m.? My dam broke during the night, and I have just got the water stopped, and wish to remain to attend to it. I would also like to feel the enemy, to ascertain whether he has changed. I think he has changed, but cannot ascertain certain without feeling him.

J. B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General of Volunteers.

NASHVILLE, December 11, 1864.

Major-General STEEDMAN:

You can defer your visit to these headquarters until 2 o'clock, and feel the enemy as you propose.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General, &c.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, December 11, 1864.

Major General J. H. WILSON,

Commanding Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you commence the crossing of your command over the river to-morrow morning, as positive orders have been received by him to at once attack the enemy. They will go into position as has already been designated in your consultations with the major-general commanding.

I have the honor to be, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

ROBT. H. RAMSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,

No. 34. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Nashville, Tenn., December 11, 1864.

I. The Fourteenth Ohio Battery, Lieutenant Myers, commanding, having reported in accordance with Special Orders, No. 21, paragraph II, headquarters Artillery Reserve, Department of the Tennessee,