Send ammunition to Max Meadows at once. Wagons will go from here to bring it. Five hundred troops left at Saltville. All troops should come up without delay.

H. T. STANTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

WYTHEVILLE, December 19, 1864.

Major J. S. JOHNSTON:

No orders of any kind from General B[reckinridge] with regard to forwarding troops. Will send your message to him. Sent him long account of affairs at the bridge this morning by his own courier. Expect reply in morning.

H. T. STANTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS,
December 20, 1864-8.40.

Lieutenant-General STEWART,

Commanding:

GENERAL: General Hood directs you will have your men to cook rations this morning, and march at 11 or 12 o'clock to-day. He desires you to make a march of not less than fifteen miles. Walthall, with such troops as will be indicated, will from a rear guard, and will not move with the remainder.

Yours, respectfully,

A. P. MASON,

Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

P. S.- Your march will be toward Pulaski.

A. P. M.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS STEWART'S CORPS,

Numbers 10.
Near Columbia, Tenn., December 20, 1864.

I. The brigades of Generals Featherston, Reynolds, Ector, and Quarles, with their brigade ordnance wagons, ambulances, tool and cook wagons, will report for duty to Major-General Walthall, at his headquarters on the Pulaski pike.

By order of Lieutenant-General Stewart:

W. D. GALE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY CORPS,
At Mr. Warfield's House, December 20, 1864-5 p. m.

Major General E. C. WALTHALL:

GENERAL: The major-general directs that you send 200 men to picket from the old mill on Duck River, to extend down to the fort. The mills is about half a mile above where our pontoon bridges were