HOPKINSVILLE, December 22, 1864.

Major ARNECK,

Commanding Seventeenth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry:

The Seventeenth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, with the exception of that portion of it which has not yet been mustered in, will remain at Hopkinsville and garrison that place until it receives orders from Lieutenant-Colonel Johnston or other superior authority. You will give proper receipts for all rations or forage that you may take form citizens for the use of your command. You will not abandon the place without orders, unless attacked by a much superior force.

E. M. McCOK,

Brigadier-General.

HOPKINSVILLE, December 22, 1864.

Colonel O. H. LA GRANGE:

I am directed by the general commanding to inform you that the command moves to-morrow to Trenton,a nd will probably move from there to Nashville. Any dispatches addressed to me at Russellville or Nashville will reach me. If you come back through Hopkinsville you will move directly to Nashville by easy marches, and notify him there of your coming.

I am, colonel, your obedient servant,

ROBERT LE ROY,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. 2nd DIV., CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Numbers 39.
Louisville, Ky., December 22, 1864.

I. Major D. D. Marquis, Ninety-eight Illinois Volunteers, having been assigned to duty at Saint Louis, Mo., by orders form the War Department, is hereby relieved from duty as assistant inspector-general on the staff of the brigadier-general commanding.

II. Captain Jesse N. Squire, Third Ohio Cavalry, having reported in obedience with Special Orders, Numbers 168, from these headquarters, is hereby announced as assistant inspector-general of this division, subject to the approval of the corps commander.

III. Captain C. C. Starkweather, One hundred and twenty-third Illinois Volunteers, having reported in obedience with Special Orders, Numbers 168, form these headquarters, is hereby announced as provost-marshal of this division.

|By command of Brigadier General Eli Long:

T. W. SCOTT,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Columbia, December 22, 1864.

Brigadier-General UPTON,
Commanding Fourth Division, Cavalry Corps, Memphis, Tenn.:

Take with you to Louisville the Third and Fourth Iowa Tenth and Twelfth Missouri, the Sixth Tennessee and Nineteenth Pennsylvania.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.