ON THE FIELD, [December 15, 1864]-3.30 p. m.

General WALTHALL:

General Johnson's brigade have fallen back on your left. Watch your left and right and hold as long as you can. Cheatham is coming with two division.

Respectfully,

ALEX. P. STEWART,

Lieutenant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY CORPS, December 15, 1864-9 p. m.

Brigadier-General JACKSON,
Commanding Division:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you withdraw all your forces at daylight in the morning, and concentrate on the Wilkinson pike at or near George Smith's. He has directed the infantry wagon train and the artillery wagons, three or four miles from the Nashville pike, up Stewart's Creek in the direction of Nolensville poke, and wishes your train placed there also to-morrow morning. The enemy attacked our line in several places to-day around Nashville, and at 2 o'clock were attempting to turn our left flank; hence his desire to concentrate all his force as rapidly as possible, and place it between the garrison at Murfreesborough and Nashville, Bell will be at or near mouth of Overall's Creek, on Stone's River, and the infantry brigades on the pike near the block-house.

I am, general, very respectfully, &c.,

CHAS. W. ANDERSON,

Assistant Inspector-General.

P. S.-Generals Ross and Armstrong will read and act upon this order in the event General Jackson is not present, forwarding this to him.

By order of Major-General Forrest:

CHAS. W. ANDERSON,

Assistant Inspector-General.

MONTGOMERY, ALA., December 15, 1864.

Lieutenant General R. TAYLOR,

Meridian:

Operator at Pollard left this morning and reported enemy in two miles. Will organize and send all troops that can be raised down to Pollard.

GEORGE WM. BRENT,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

(Same to Major General D. H. Maury, Mobile.)

HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ALA., MISS., AND EAST LA., Meridian, December 15, 1864.

Colonel GEORGE WILLIAM BRENT,

Asst. Adjt. General, Hdqrs. Mil. Div. of the West, Montgomery, Ala.:

COLONEL: I am informed by the chief purchasing commissaries of Mississippi and Alabama that the chief commissary of subsistence of