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NASHVILLE, December 13, 1864.
Major-General DODGE,
Saint Louis, Mo.:
If have any further re-enforcements to send to this place, I would like you to send three regiments of infantry or cavalry, if you can spare them, to Paducah, to report to General Meredith for special duty of driving the enemy from Danville bridge, on the Tennessee River.
GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
NASHVILLE, TENN., December 12, 1864-8 p. m.
Major T. T. ECKERT:
Reconnaissance to-day showed enemy's force all around; in greatest strength on right, where some artillery opened. Thaw has begun, and to-morrow we can move without skates. Rebel General Lyon crossed the Cumberland twenty miles below Clarksville, Sunday, by capturing a transport; so we may los use of Louisville railroad soon, and communication by telegraph, but he cannot stay long-not strong enough. Trains run from Murfreesborough to Chattanooga. All quiet in that quarter and in East Tennessee.
J. C. VAN DUZER.
SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES,
Numbers 149.
city Point, Va., December 13, 1864.I. Major General John A. Logan, U. S. Volunteers, will proceed immediately to Nashville, Tenn., reporting by telegraph to the lieutenant-general commanding his arrival at Louisville, Ky., and also his arrival at Nashville, Tenn.
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By command of Lieutenant-General Grant:
T. S. BOWERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Numbers 341.
Nashville, Tenn., December 13, 1864.I. Brigadier General E. Upton, brevet major-general of volunteers, having reported at these headquarters in obedience to orders from headquarters of the Army, is assigned to duty with the Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, and will report in person to Bvt. Major General J. H. Wilson, commanding.
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IX. The Sixteenth U. S. Colored Infantry is hereby ordered to report for temporary duty to Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Wharton, U. S. Engineers, chief topographical engineer, Department of the Cumberland.
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By command of Major-General Thomas:
HENRY M. CIST,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.
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