354 Series I Volume XLV-II Serial 94 - Franklin - Nashville Part II
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
In the Field, Richland Creek, December 25, 1864.Major General L. H. ROUSSEAU,
Nashville, Tenn.:
Send one of the Missouri regiments just arrived at Nashville to Spring Hill, as guard to the railroad depot at that place, with orders to follow the advanced depot, to prevent pillaging and robbery and to assist in loading wagons, &c.
WM. D. WHIPPLE,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
NASHVILLE, December 25, 1864.
Major General R. H. MILROY,
Murfreesborough:
The major-general commanding directs that with the three Michigan regiments now at Murfreesborough you relieve the Sixth Kentucky and One hundred and eightieth Ohio Infantry, and reoccupy the line of railroad in your command, leaving small garrisons at Murfreesborough and Tullahoma. You may furnish transportation to the One hundred and eightieth Ohio, and direct it to join the Twenty-third Corps via Fayetteville, as you propose. The Sixth Kentucky, upon being relieved, will be furnished with transportation by you by rail, and sent to Nashville to be mustered out. You may make your headquarters at Tullahoma as before. Another regiment will be sent you as soon as possible.
B. H. POLK,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES NASHVILLE,
AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD,
Numbers 3.
Murfreesborough, Tenn., December 25, 1864.The following regiments now at this post will report to Brigadier General H. P. Van Cleve for duty till further orders; all communications and reports will be made through him, viz: Twelfth Indiana Volunteer Cavalry, Sixty-first Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Third Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Twenty-ninth Michigan Volunteer Infantry.
By command of Major-General Milroy:
JNO. O. CRAVENS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
LEXINGTON, December 25, 1864.
Lieutenant Colonel T. B. FAIRLEIGH,
Louisville, Ky.:
Advise me by telegraph of Lyon's movements. He was reported at Elizabethtown last night.
J. BATES DICKSON,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.
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