HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH, Chattanooga, January 8, 1865.

Brigadier-General CRUFT,
Paint Rock:

Unless your order to stop on the Huntsville road is by direction of Major-General Thomas, you will come forward, as previously directed.

JAMES B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH, Chattanooga, January 8, 1865.

Brigadier-General CRUFT,
Paint Rock:

The Seventeenth Colored will proceed to Nashville; the Sixty-eighth New York will stop at Bridgeport. The detachment of the Seventeenth Army Corps can stop at Stevenson, and await orders to proceed to Savannah.

JAMES B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.

LARKINSVILLE, January 8, 1865.

Major-General STEEDMAN:

Here with advance of command. On lookout for Lyon.

CHARLES CRUFT,

Brigadier-General.

LARKINSVILLE, January 8, 1865.

Major-General STEEDMAN:

Have intelligence that Lyon crossed the mountains last night and is heading for river near Bellefonte. Can you send a gun-boat or two from Bridgeport, to patrol river from Bellefonte to Gunter's Landing? Harrison is in search of him near Bellefonte, and I will move remainder of the command toward river to-night.

CHARLES CRUFT,

Brigadier-General.

DECATUR, January 8, 1865.

Major S. B. MOE,,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Colonel Palmer and Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry have arrived here. They have orders from General Thomas to go to Huntsville and recruit their horses for two weeks.

SAM. M. KNEELAND,

Lieutenant and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

[In absence of General Granger.]