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garrison of the town. Provost guards will be established at once, and the place, as far as possible, protected while our troops are passing through.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
ROBT. H. RAMSEY.
Assistant Adjutant-General.
(Forwarded to Brigadier General J. D. Cox.)
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, McKane's Church, December 24, 1864.Major General J. M. SCHOFIELD,
Commanding Twenty-third Army Corps:GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that the trains of the cavalry command and the Fourth Army Corps be permitted to cross the pontoon bridge before all other trains or troops. These commands are now two and a half and four miles beyond Lynnville, and will be out of provisions to-morrow night.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
WM. D. WHIPPLE,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
(Copy to Major General A. J. Smith, Detachment Army of the Tennessee.)
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO, Near Columbia, Tenn., December 24, 1864.Major General GEORGE H. THOMAS,
Commanding Department of the Cumberland:GENERAL: I have the honor to request permission to send to Washington an officer, with nine non-commissioned officers and privates of the Twenty-third Corps, to deliver to the War Department nine stand of colors captured from the enemy at Franklin, November 30, 1864. The men I propose to send are those who captured the flags, or the representatives of the captors in cases where the particular soldier is not known.
I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J. M. SCHOFIELD,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO, Near Columbia, Tenn., December 24, 1864.Major General GEORGE H. THOMAS,
Commanding Department of the Cumberland:GENERAL: At the end of the Atlanta campaign I recommended three colonels commanding brigades in the Twenty-third Army Corps for promotion to the rank of brigadier-generals.* These recommendations were approved by Major-General Sherman, and forwarded to Washington with his official report. No one of the three has yet been appointed,
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*See Vol. XXXIX, Part II, p. 366.
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