your arrangements to draw rations and forage at La Grange for five days. There is information that an attack may be made in a few days, and in our present condition great vigilance is necessary. Look especially to your left flank while on the march, and instructions will be forwarded to you when you arrive at La Grange.

By order of Edward Hatch, colonel commanding division:

S. L. WOODWARD,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

COLUMBUS, KY., October 31, 1863.

Brigadier-General REID:

A large force is approaching Paducah. Please ask Admiral Porter to send a gunboat there at once, if practicable.

A. J. SMITH,

Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. AND ARMY OF THE Tennessee,

Numbers 6. Waterloo, Ala., October 31, 1863.

I. Pursuant to instructions from the general commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi, the Third Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps, Brigadier-General Tuttle commanding, will move at once by boats, via Cairo and up the Tennessee River, landing opposite Eastport, and push forward, via Florence, to join its proper corps.

By order of Major General W. T. Sherman:

R. M. SAWYER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Abstract from returns of the Military Division of the Mississippi, Major General Ulysses S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding, for the moth of October, 1863.*

Present for Pieces of

duty. artillery.

Command. Officer Men. Aggregat Aggregat Heavy. Field.

s. e e

present present

. and

absent.

General 14 - 14 14 - -

headquarters

Department 4,628 78,202 97,018 154,289 22 252

of the

Cumberland

Department 2,047 39,907 49,367 67,016 8 196

of the Ohio

Department 3,747 64,207 84,159 123,084 88 235

of the

Tennessee

Total 10,436 182,316 230,558 344,403 118 683

Total 11,029 191,972 244,731 348,058 130 633

according to

General

Grant's

return

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*Compiled from the subordinate, as the most accurate, returns.

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