COLESBURG, KY., January 9, 1865.

Brigadier-General EWING,

Louisville, Ky.:

Rebels, from 500 to 900 strong, in Elizabehttown. Send re-enforcements for protection of Government property at this attention. Have only fifteen men.

A. ANDERSON,

First Lieutenant, 50th Ohio Vol. Infty, Acting Assistant Quartermaster.

LEXINGTON, January 9, 1865.

Brigadier-General FRY,

Camp Nelson, Ky.:

Send the mounted part of Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry, under good officer, to New Lebanon road, to operate in region of Raywick, New Haven, and Hodgensville against guerrillas.

By order of Brigadier-General Hobson:

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

January 10, 1865- 1 p. m.

Lieutenant-General GRANT,

City Point:

I will at once send Colonel Parsons to the West to take charge of the transportation of Schofield's corps. No doubt it will be best on move the whole body by boats from Eastport to Parkersburg, if the navigation allows, and thence by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Annapolis. When Hooker's force went to Tennessee all were moved over that road with great promptness and success. A capital advantage of that line is that it avoids all large towns. If the Ohio River should be frozen they can be moved by rail from Cairo, Evansville, or Jeffersonville to Parkersburg or Bellaire, according to circumstances. Your orders says nothing about artillery; I think that had better be left behind. If the men are need they can come and find new batteries and horses here.

C. A. DANA,

Assistant Secretary of War.

WASHINGTON, D. C., January 10, 1865-4 p. m.

Major-General THOMAS,

Nashville:

Please answer in regard to Schofields' corps, where and when it will assemble.

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.