SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. MILITARY DIV. OF THE WEST,

Numbers 22.
December 5, 1864.

I. Major General William T. Martin, with his personal staff, will report to Major General F. Gardner for duty.

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By command of General Beauregard:

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Six Miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 5, 1864.

Hon JAMES A. SEDDON,

Secretary of War, Richmond:

Our loss of officers in the battle of Franklin, on the 30th, was excessively large in proportion to the loss of men. The medical director reports a very large proportion of slightly wounded men.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

(Copy to General Beauregard.)

HEADQUARTERS,
Six Miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 5, 1864.

General G. T. BEAUREGARD,

Macon, Ga.:

Your telegrams of the 26th received.* There is no major-general in this army who could now be spared for the duty specified. Brigadier-General Armstrong is the best person I could recommend from this army, provided he could be promoted to the proper rank.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Six Miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 5, 1864.

Captain W. A. REID,

Assistant Inspector-General, Corinth, Miss.:

Send forward at once all men belonging to this army in proper detachments, with officers to preserve discipline and prevent straggling on the march.

J. B. HOOD,

General.

HEADQUARTERS,
Six Miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 5, 1864.

Captain S. S. SEMMES,

Staff Paymaster, Army of Tennessee, Mobile, Ala.:

Rejoin the army without delay. Trains with escorts are constantly coming to the army from Cherokee Station.

By order of General Hood:

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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*See Vol. XLIV, pp. 898, 899.

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