direct practicable route. It will be reported, upon arriving at Huntsville to these headquarters, which will be established in that place. All your transportation, &c., will join you at Huntsville.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. J. ALEXANDER,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Pulaski, December 31, 1864

Brigadier General JOHN F. MILLER,

Nashville:

Send all officers and men who have reported to you since General Steedman left who belong to General Sherman's army to Savannah, without regard to term of service yet remaining. We have not the means of determining when their terms of service expire, and, under existing orders of War Department, cannot muster them out. Send, also, the reserve artillery of Army of the Tennessee to Savannah.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, December 31, 1864.

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff:

Your dispatch relating to officers and men of General Sherman's command just received. There are numbers of men belonging to that army whose term of service has expired. Shall we send such men to the chief mustering officer of the State from whence they came? The detachments of your command, with baggage, here are in camp together, and I am sending forward all men from detachments fit for duty. Will you have the baggage forwarded soon?

JNO. F. MILLER,

Brigadier-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND.

Pulaski, December 31, 1864.

Brigadier General J. F. MILLER,
Nashville:

Send all detachments for General Smith's command by steamer to Eastport.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Pulaski, December 31, 1864.

Brigadier General J. F. MILLER,

Nashville:

Hold the 200 of Merrill's Horse at Nashville until the rest of the regiment arrives, then send it overland to Eastport.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General.