HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Pulaski, December 27, 1864.

COMMANDING OFFICER FORTY-FIFTH MISSOURI,

Spring Hill:

Shoot all the stragglers you can catch in the act of plundering trains, and such as you do not shoot send back to General Miller at Nashville.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE,
Nashville, Tenn., December 27, 1864.

Commanding OFFICER FORTY-SECOND MISSOURI VOL. INFANTRY:

In pursuance of instructions from Major-General Thomas, you will move your regiment, by steam-boat, without delay, to this place, reporting at these headquarters upon your arrival.

By command of Major-General Rousseau:

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to commanding officer Forty-third Wisconsin Infantry.)

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES NASHVILLE,
AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD,

Numbers 5.
Murfreesborough, December 27, 1864.

I. The Twelfth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Cavalry will proceed to Tullahoma by rail immediately. This regiment will relieve all the detachments of the One hundred and fifteenth Ohio Infantry stationed south of Duck River and north of Elk River. The block-houses. Nos. 14 and 15 (first two north of Tullahoma), will be garrisoned as follows: At Numbers 14, twenty men and an officer; at Numbers 15, twelve men and an efficient non-commissioned officer. The remainder of the regiment will be stationed at Tullahoma.

II. Colonel Edward Anderson will proceed to Tullahoma with the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry, and take command of that post and the troops there.

By command of Major-General Milroy:

JNO. O. CRAVENS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
December 27, 1864.

Brigadier General J. F. MILLER,

Nashville:

Fire a salute of 100 guns to-morrow, in honor of the capture of Savannah by General Sherman.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.