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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
In the Field, December 25, 1864.Brigadier General ELI LONG:
Lyon is reported as still roaming though Kentucky. As your troops are the nearest to him, the major-general commanding looks to you to destroy him entirely.
WM. D. WHIPPLE,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
LOUISVILLE, KY., December 25, 1864.
Brevet Major-General WILSON,
Commanding Cavalry Corps:
I sent Third Ohio and Ninety-eighth Illinois to Bardstown this morning. Will leave with remainder of division Wednesday, 28th instant.
E. LONG,
Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding Division.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Richland Creek, December 25, 1864. (Via Stevenson.)Major General J. B. STEEDMAN,
Decatur:
The report now is that the enemy is making for Lamb's Ferry and Florence, being thrown off his route to Decatur by fear of being intercepted. Give us such information as you may have received concerning this. The moment you establish a footing on south side of Tennessee River order Colonel Merrill to send you a pontoon bridge from Bridgeport, where he has been ordered to have it ready; establish it at Decatur.
WM. D. WHIPPLE,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
NASHVILLE, TENN., December 25, 1864.
Brigadier General W. D. WHIPPLE,
Headquarters Major-General Thomas:
The three Missouri regiments arrived here last night, and will be sent down the line of the Tennessee and Alabama Railroad as soon as I can get them off. One of them is a one-year regiment, and the two others are six-months troops. I have directed General Milroy to occupy the line of the Chattanooga road with the three new Michigan regiments now at Murfreesborough, leaving small garrison at that place and Tullahome; and to relieve the Sixth Kentucky at Anderson and forward it here for muster out; also to relieve the One hundred and eightieth Ohio at Elk River, Decherd and below, and direct it to join the Twenty-third Corps via Fayetteville. General Milroy's headquarters to be at Tullahoma as before.
L. H. ROUSSEAU,
Major-General.
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