HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Pulaski, December 26, 1864.

Major General L. H. ROUSSEAU,

Nashville:

General Wilson is still pressing the enemy, and to-night is eight or ten miles from here, on the Lamb's Ferry road.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE,

Numbers 297.
Nashville, Tenn., December 26, 1864.

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II. The Forty-fifth Missouri Volunteer Infantry will proceed without delay to Spring Hill, by rail, to serve as guard to the railroad depot and stores at that place, to prevent pillaging and robbing, and to assist in loading wagons with supplies and materials for the troops at the front. The regiment will follow the advance depots the railroad is repaired and other depots are established further south, performing the duty above indicated. The quartermaster's department will furnish the necessary transportation.

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By command of Major-General Rousseau:

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, TENN., December 26, 1864.

Major-General MILROY,

Murfreesborough:

General Thomas telegraphed that the Third and Fourth Michigan have been assigned to the Fourth Corps, and cannot be used in garrisoning the Nashville and Chattanooga road. As soon as it can be done, other regiments will be sent you.

By command of Major-General Rousseau:

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, TENN., December 26, 1864.

Major-General MILROY,

Murfreesborough:

A dispatch was sent you to-day, directing that the Third and Fourth Michigan be not used in garrisoning the railroad, as they had been assigned to the Fourth Corps. Was it received? General Thomas is beyond Pulaski. Hood has perhaps put his army across the Tennessee.

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.