SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE,

Numbers 301.
Nashville, Tenn., December 30, 1864

I. The Forty-third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry will proceed without delay by rail to Elk River and Decherd, on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad-four companies under the command of the major, to take post at Elk River, and the remainder of the regiment to Decherd. Reports and returns will be made to Major General R. H. Milroy, commanding that road.

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By command of Major-General Rousseau:

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES NASHVILLE,
AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD,

Numbers 7 1/2.
Tullahoma, December 30, 1864

I. The Forty-third Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry will relieve all garrisons held by the One hundred and eightieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, beginning at Block-house Numbers 17 (second south of Tullahoma), and running from thence south on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. At Elk River bridge, the lieutenant-colonel and four companies will be stationed, placing of this force twenty men and an officer in each block-house there; the remainder of the four companies will occupy the fort. The headquarters and the reserve of the regiment will be at Decherd.

II.a As soon as the One hundred and eightieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry is relieved by the Forty-third Regiment Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel Willard Warner will proceed with his regiment to Pulaski, marching via Fayetteville. Colonel Warner will join the Twenty-third Army Corps (to which he has been assigned) at Pulaski, or wherever it may be.

By command of Major-General Milroy:

JNO. O. CRAVENS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. DEFENSES NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA, R. R.,
Tullahoma, December 30, 1864

Colonel WILLARD WARNER,

180th Ohio Volunteer Infantry:

COLONEL: The Forty-third Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry has been ordered to relieve your regiment at Decherd and all other points. As soon as this has been done will proceed with your command to Pulaski, marching via Fayetteville. You will take five days' rations, if practicable carrying three days' in haversacks. When you reach Pulaski you will report to the commanding officer of the Twenty-third Corps is not there, you will proceed to join it wherever it may be. You will take the mounted men of the two companies of the Fifth Tennessee Cavalry, under Captain Couch, and order them to march one day in

aNot promulgated. Regiment received orders from Major-General Schofield.