BOWLING GREEN, December 26, 1864.

(Received 28th.)

Brigadier-General McCOOK:

Colonel La Grange last heard from at Elizabethtown. Whipped Lyon near there on Saturday evening. Said he would have Lyon and his force.

DANIEL J. DILL,

Colonel Thirtieth Wisconsin Infantry, Commanding Brigade.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Richland Creek, December 26, 1864.

Brigadier General ELI LONG,

En route between Nashville and Louisville:

The major-general commanding directs that you leave the rebel Lyon to General McCook, and join the Cavalry Corps, at the front, as rapidly as possible to arrive in good order.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS FIFTH CAVALRY DIVISION,
Sugar Creek, December 26, 1864.

Major BEAUMONT,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Cavalry Corps:

MAJOR: My rations are up to-night, and I am low in ammunition. Am doing all I can to-night to get my trains up. I can advance, however, without rations at any time. The regiment sent to Lawrenceburg arrived this evening; say no troops but stragglers have gone through Lawrenceburg, and no trains moved in that direction.

Very truly, your obedient servant,

EDWARD HATCH,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Richland Creek, December 26, 1864.

Major General L. H. ROUSSEAU,

Nashville:

The Twenty-eighth Michigan has been assigned to the Twenty-third Army Corps, and the Third and Fourth Michigan to the Fourth Army Corps. They cannot, therefore, be used to garrison the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, December 26, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE:

I did not know the Third and Fourth Michigan had been assigned, or I should not have ordered General Milroy to use them. I have sent him instructions not to post them on the road. This will leave but two regiments to garrison the road from here to Stevenson, the Twenty-