WASHINGTON, D. C., January 23, 1865.

Major-General THOMAS,

Eastport:

More troops are asked for to guard prisoner of war at chicago. None available except from your command. Can you not send a small regiment for that purpose?

H. W. HALLECK,

Major-General and Chief of Staff.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. CAV. CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISS.

Numbers 13.
Gravelly Springs, Ala., January 23, 1865.

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IV. Brevet Brigadier-General Watkins is hereby relieved from the command of the Third Brigade, First Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, and will report to Brigadier General R. W. Johnson for assignment to the command of a brigade in the Sixth Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi. The quartermaster's department will furnish transportation for General Watkin's horses.

V. The Third Brigade, First Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, will be broken up upon the receipt of this order, and Brigadier-General Croxton will assign the regiments comprising it to the remaining brigades of the division.

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By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEUMONT,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH,

Chattanooga, January 23, 1865.

Colonel PALMER,

Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, Huntsville:

Unless ordered by Major-General Thomas to remain at Huntsville, you will march with your command for Chattanooga at once.

JAMES B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Eastport, Miss., January 24, 1865.

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Washington, D. C.:

Your dispatch of 2.30 p. m. 19th instant is received this day. In my dispatch of 12 m. 21st instant I reported the condition of the road in this region of the country, and since writing that dispatch an officer sent by me on flag of truce toward Columbus has returned. He succeeded in getting ten miles beyond Fulton, and reports that both the road he went out on and the one he returned by are at this time impracticable for artillery and wagon trains. I have also received the same reports, from reliable scouts and from refugees, of the condition of the road leading from Tuscumbia, via Russellville, to Tuscaloosa and