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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Duck River, December 24, 1864.Major-General ROUSSEAU,
Commanding District of Tennessee, Nashville:The Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry is either at Chattanooga or has been mustered out. The major-general commanding directs that you send at once to Columbia sufficient troops to garrison to same and to protect the railroad as fast as it is repaired.
HENRY M . CIST,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
NASHVILLE, TENN., December 24, 1864.
Captain H. M. CIST,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
I have ordered the One hundred and seventy-fifth Ohio to Columbia, to garrison that post and the block-houses this side not already occupied by the Seventy-first Indiana Battery to Columbia; also to take up old position. If any more troops are needed on that road I do not know where to get them, unless I am allowed to withdraw the Forty-third Wisconsin from Clarksville, which was put there by order of General Thomas. That regiment was formerly at Johnsville.
LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE, Nashville, Tenn., December 24, 1864.Major MULLENIX,
Commanding 175th Ohio Volunteer Infantry:MAJOR: The major-general commanding directs that you proceed with your regiment to Columbia, occupying the block-houses or their positions between that place and Franklin not occupied by the Seventy-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Your regiment should move without unnecessary delay.
I am, major, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
B. H. POLK,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE, Nashville, Tenn., December 24, 1864.Captain A. P. ANDREW,
Commanding Twenty-first Indiana Battery:CAPTAIN: The major-general commanding directs that you take up your old position in the fort at Columbia, with such guns as you have or may be furnished with by the ordnance department. The One hundred and seventy-fifth Ohio, now in camp near Fort Negley, has orders to proceed to Columbia, and if your battery gets ready in time, may move with it.
I am, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
B. H. POLK,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
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