CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS,

December 1, 1864.

Corps commanders will have details sent on the field to gather up and stack the arms found there. Send also officers in all directions to gather up their men.

By order of General Hood:

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

Near Franklin, December 1, 1864.

Corps commanders will send in at once a list of the division, brigade, and regimental commanders, by name and rank, who were killed or wounded so as to be unfit for service in the engagement of yesterday evening.

By command of General Hood:

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

Division commanders will hold their commands in readiness to move at 3 o'clock this evening.

HEADQUARTERS,
December 1, 1864-11.30 a. m.

Lieutenant-General STEWART,

Commanding:

GENERAL: General Hood directs that you get over the river this evening above the town and cook rations. You will have some two or three days' breadstuffs given you, which he desires you to cook up. Cheatham will cross at the town.

Yours, respectfully,

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Franklin, December 1, 1864-1.30 p. m.

[General STEWART:]

GENERAL: General Hood directs that you will go into bivouac in the first good place you can find beyond the river, taking your artillery and trains with you. Make yourself as familiar as you can with the roads leading both to the Franklin pike and to the Nolensville pike from your point of bivouac. Army headquarters will be on the Franklin pike, a short distance over the river, in the direction of Nashville. As soon as you are in bivouac send some of your couriers to find army headquarters, that General Hood may communicate further with you.

Yours, respectfully,

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.