SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS,

Numbers 5.*
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

II. Commanders of divisions and independent brigades will send to these headquarters, by 10 o'clock this p. m., an approximate report of the effective force and a report of casualties since leaving Nashville.

III. The commanidng officer of the Forth Ohio Cavalry will concentrate his regiment at Nashville, prepared it for the field, and join his division upon its arrival at that place.

IV. The Second Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, Brigadier-General Long commanding, will at once proceed to join the Cavalry Corps in the field. The division will march as rapidly as possible without making forced marches.

By order of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant-General.

HDQRS. FIRST Brigadier, FIRST DIV., CAVALRY CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, December 18, 1864.

Lieutenant Colonel A. J. ALEXANDER:

SIR: In obedience to Special Field Orders, Numbers 5, from headquarters Cavalry Corps, I have the honor to submit the following report of effective strength of this command and regimental casualties since leaving Nashville.

Commissioned officers present, including field and staff of brigade and regiments and regimental line officers, 70; enlisted men, 1,456; total, 1,526.

Casualties: Wounded (slight), 6.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JNO. T. CROXTON,

Brigadier-General, Commanding.

AT THE BRIDGE NEAR WHITE'S MILL, December 18, 1864-3.30 a. m.

Captain ROBERT LE ROY,

Assistant Adjutant-General, First Cavalry Division:

CAPTAIN: I will have a foot bridge ready by daylight. The timbers of the bridge are only partially destroyed. My ambulances will come back to you; they cannot cross here. I will follow Lyon as rapidly as possible, and make him a good fight, if I catch him. The turn to Wilson's Bridge is three or four miles from here. Where shall I send my next?

O. H. LA GRANGE,

Colonel.

P. S.-I see no rebel picket near the river. They inquired for Providence.

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*Appears as No. 8 in order book.

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