are away; one whole company of the Second Iowa Cavalry is kept by General Grierson; clerks in all the departments are retained by General Dana; a large detachment of the Third Illinois is kept by General Meredith at Paducah. Please have General Thomas request a peremptory order from General Grant for the immediate return of these men.

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Athens, Ala., January 4, 1865.

Brigadier General WILLIAM D. WHIPPLE,
Chief of Staff, Department of the Cumberland:

A dispatch from General Croxton, just received, dated Waterloo, December 31, says he arrived there the evening before; found supplies of all kinds on transports. Hood's army reached Cherokee the night of the 30th, and Forrest took the train for Corinth the same day at that point, shipping cavalry by rail.

J. H. WILSON,

Brevet Major-General.

NASHVILLE, TENN., January 4, 1865.

Major General R. H. MILROY,

Tullahoma:

We have nothing with which to relieve that portion of the One hundred and fifteenth Ohio between here and Murfreesborough.

By command of Major-General Rousseau:

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE TENN., January 4, 1865.

Major-General MILROY,

Tullahoma:

The Twenty-third Corps is at Eastport, Miss., on the Tennessee River.

B. B. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

ATHENS, January 4, 1865.

Brigadier-General AMMEN:

The rebels in Madisonville in force; 800 at Jellico Plains last night, twenty-five miles from this place.

JAS. HOWE,

Captain, Commanding Post.

KNOXVILLE, January 4, 1865.

Captain JAMES HOWE,

Athens:

What number probably at Madisonville, and which way are they moving? Have you any force in that direction or toward Jellico?

J. AMMEN,

Brigadier-General.