NASHVILLE, December 24, 1864.

Major General G. H. THOMAS:

In pursuance to orders from Brigadier-General Meredith, I have the honor to report my arrival here in command of the Forty-fifth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Regiments Missouri Volunteer Infantry. The men are on board and await orders.

W. H. BLODGETT,

Colonel Forty-eighth Missouri Infantry Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS POST OF MURFREESBOROUGH, Murfreesborough, Tenn., December 24, 1864.

Colonel THOMAS C. BOONE,
Commanding 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry:

SIR: The general commanding directs that you send the detachments to those bridges between this place and Nashville that were abandoned during the late siege. The detachments will report at the picket-line on the Nashville pike at 6 o'clock to-morrow morning, and will find transportation by wagon train to their respective places of destination.

Very respectfully, &c.,

H. H. SHEETS,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

CLARKSVILLE, December 24, 1864.

Captain ROBERT H. RAMSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

General McCook reports that he captured Lyon's artillery; part of his men; remainder scattered and leaving country. My scouts have picked up a number.

A. A. SMITH,

Colonel, Commanding.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, In the Field, December 24, 1864.

Brigadier General S. MEREDITH,
Paducah:

The major-general commanding directs that Merrill's Horse must come to the front. A regiment has been ordered from General Smith's command to Paducah, which will be temporary relief to you.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General.

LOUISVILLE, KY., December 24, 1864.

Major ECKERT:

Rebel General Lyon captured Elizabethtown last night with a force estimated at 3,000. He will probably destroy one or two bridges, and play smash with telegraph, which now only works to Colesburg. General McCook is after the enemy, but don't know how close a race.

SAM. BRUCH.