665 Series I Volume XLV-II Serial 94 - Franklin - Nashville Part II
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MONTGOMERY, ALA., December 8, 1864.
General G. T. BEAUREGARD:
(Care of General Cobb, Macon, Ga.)
The following received.*
Strange dispatch. It would be well to recommend to Department that General Brags be sent at once to relieve Smith, and organize and administer trans-Mississippi, and General R. Taylor to command troops. This would be a strong concentration and secure prompt action. Otherwise, we shall not be able to open spring campaign.
GEORGE WM. BRENT,
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Six Miles from Nashville, December 8, 1864.(Received 10.20 17th.)
Honorable J. A. SEDDON:
A good lieutenant-general should be sent here at once, to command the corps now commanded by Major-General Cheatham. I have no one to recommend for the position.
J. B. HOOD.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Six Miles from Nashville, December 8, 1864.(Received 10.20 17th.)
Honorable J. A. SEDDON:
Major-General Cheatham made a failure on the 30th of November, which will be a lesson to him. I think it best he should remain in his position for the present. I withdraw my telegrams of yesterday and to-day on this subject.
J. B. HOOD.
CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Near Nashville, Tenn., December 8, 1864.
The commanding general directs that regular and frequent roll-calls be made in the respective commands of the army as preventive of straggling, in having been reported that straggling soldiers are depredating upon the property of citizen of this neighborhood. The attention of a strict enforcement of this order.
By command of General Hood:
A. P. MASON,
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF TENNESSEE, Near Nashville, Tenn., December 8, 1864.
General Hood directs that you will have your entire line examined late each evening and very early each morning, to observe the enemy closely, to ascertain if any change should take place.
By order of General Hood:
A. P. MASON,
Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.
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*See Seddon to Beauregard, 4th, p. 647.
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