HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Athens, Ala., January 3, 1865.

Captain LEVI T. GRIFFIN,
Actg. Asst. Adjt. General, Cavalry Corps, High Street, Nashville:

Tell General McCook to take 300 extra horses, if he can get them. I will direct Croxton to make out reports as soon as I reach him.

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.

SPECIAL FIELD HEADQUARTERS CAVALRY CORPS, MILITARY

ORDERS, DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

2. Huntsville, Ala., January 3, 1865.

Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Alexander, assistant adjutant-general, Seventeenth Army Corps, is relieved from duty with this command, and will report for orders to the headquarters Military Division of the Mississippi, Nashville, Tenn.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

JOHN N. ANDREWS,

Captain and Aide-de-Camp, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Nashville, Tenn., January 3, 1865.

Brigadier General E. M. McCOOK,
Commanding First Division, Cavalry Corps, Mil. Div.of the Miss.:

GENERAL: On Colonel La Grange's arrival you will march with all serviceable men of your command ready for the field to Waterloo, on the Tennessee River; from there you will be ferried across the river to Eastport. If possible, your wagons will follow the command; if not, they will be went to Clifton, on the Tennessee River, and taken from [there] to Eastport by boat. If the teams can travel with the troops, it will be est; if the condition of roads prevent carrying loads, the property of the division must be sent by boats from Nashville to Eastport, and the wagons used to carry light loads of forage.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

LEVI T. GRIFFIN,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, TENN., January 3, 1865.

Major General R. H. MILROY, Tullahoma:

General Thomas directs that you permit the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry to come to Nashville, as requested by General Knipe.

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HEADQUARTERS DEFENSES NASHVILLE

2. AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD,
Tullahoma, January 3, 1865.

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II. Colonel William Forbes, Forty-second Regiment Missouri Volunteer Infantry, is hereby placed in command of this post, and he will enter upon his duties without delay. He will receive of Major Calkins, the former commandant, the records and papers pertaining to the post.

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