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

Colonel FELIX PR. SALM,

Sixty-eighth New York Volunteers, Bridgeport:

On your arrival at bridgeport with your regiment you will assume command of the post.

By command of Major-General Steedman:

S. B. MOE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

NASHVILLE, TENN., January 8, 1865.

Brigadier General R. S. GRANGER,

Decatur:

Yours to Major Polk received. Colonel Thompson's brigade has been ordered to Johnsonville. Do not given them any orders interfering with his.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General.

HUNTSVILLE, January 8, 1865.

Major-General STEEDMAN:

Your dispatch received at this place. Colonel Palmer arrived at Decatur on the 6th. Will send my report as soon as possible.

CHAS. R. THOMPSON,

Colonel, &c.

NASHVILLE, January 8, 1865.

Colonel W. P. LYON,

Huntsville:

General Milroy telegraphs that Lyon's forces crossed the mountain on the road to Bellefonte.

B. H. POLK,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. FIRST REGIMENT OHIO VOL. HEAVY ARTILLERY,
Near Dandridge, Tenn., January 8, 1865.

Captain W. P. AMMEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General, &c.:

According to the best information I can get, Vaughn is still back as far as vicinity of Greenville. Some indications point to his moving in this direction. The guerrillas have been very hold in my front and being remarkably well mounted and many roads, and being without any cavalry, they have the advantage. I sent an expedition by night and took possession of all the fords, and a force in the morning is to follow it up. The fruit was only surprising a squad at Allen's Ford, eleven mils above, killing a Lieutenant Norman, a noted guerrilla,