CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. CAV. CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISS., Athens, Ala., January 5, 1865.

Commanders of divisions and independent brigades will have their quartermaster's wagons, ambulances, and batteries across the Elk River before to-morrow night [6th], in order to avoid trouble which a rise in the river would cause in crossing the river.

By order of General Wilson:

HENRY E. NOYES,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Inspector-General.

NASHVILLE, TENN., January 5, 1865.

Major-General MILROY,

Tullahoma:

If the One hundred and eightieth Ohio has not started send it by cars to this place to join its corps by the way of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

TULLAHOMA, January 5, 1865.

Colonel W. WARNER,

180th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Decherd:

Get your regiment in readiness to join your corps at Eastport, Miss., via Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad to Nashville, and thence by way of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers. Give these headquarters the number of men, so that train can be ordered. By command of Major-General Milroy:

J O. CRAVENS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

DECATUR, ALA., January 5, 1865-7 p.m. [Received 6th.]

Major-General THOMAS:

I have just arrived here. Colonel Palmer arrived at Courtland today. He captured Hood's pontoon train of 120 wagons and 180 wagons of supplies and 150 prisoners. The trains were burned and the horses and mules were mostly killed. He followed he trains to the Mississippi line. I leave for Chattanooga by steamer to-night; the troops follow by rail in the a.m. Colonel Thompson will proceed to Nashville direct.

JAS. B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Athens, Ala., January 5, 1865.

Major E. B. BEAUMONT,

24 High Street, Nashville:

Telegram received. Say to General Thomas that I will make arrangements for leaving Johnson in Tennessee with a sufficient force of cavalry for the purpose indicated. Ask him also to stir up the horse