HDQRS. DEFENSES NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA R. R.,
Murfreesborough, December 26, 1864.

Colonel WILLARD WARNER,

180th Ohio Volunteer Infantry:

COLONEL: You will take with you the mounted men of the two companies of the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry under Captain Couch, and have them march one day in advance of you, so that they can give you all necessary information. If before arriving at Fayetteville you learn that our troops have not reached Pulaski, you will march to Columbia, instead of Pulaski, as ordered in paragraph II, Special Orders, Numbers 4; and you will also retain the cavalry with you till you have arrived within safe distance of our forces; but if you find that our troops are at Pulaski, you will send the cavalry back from Fayetteville to Decherd, and will proceed with your command, as directed in paragraph II, Special Orders, Numbers 4. If you cannot learn the whereabouts of our troops after reaching Fayetteville, you will march to Columbia, as it would be to dangerous for you to march to Pulaski with one regiment, if any part of the enemy is occupying that place.

By command of Major-General Milroy:

JNO. O. CRAVENS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NOTE.-If you learn at Fayetteville that the enemy has passed Pulaski, you will march to that point.

By command of Major-General Milroy:

JNO. O. CRAVENS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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JNO. O. CRAVENS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. DEFENSES NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA R. R.,
Murfreesborough, December 26, 1864.

Colonel EDWARD ANDERSON,

Commanding Second Brigade:

COLONEL: Order one company of the Twelfth Indiana [Cavalry] to start at 6 a. m. to-morrow and march on the Shelbyville pike till they come to the camp of the wagon train which left here this p.m. They will take so much of that train as was designed for the One hundred and eightieth Ohio, and proceed with it to Decherd and deliver it to Colonel Warner. This company will then relieve the detachment of the One hundred and fifteenth Ohio, garrisoned at Block-house Numbers 16 (first south of Tullahoma), placing an officer and twenty men there. The remainder of the company will take quarters at Tullahoma, and await the arrival of the regiment.

By command of Major-General Milroy:

JNO. O. CRAVENS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES NASHVILLE

AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD,

Numbers 4.
Murfreesborough, Tenn., December 26, 1864.

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