HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS,
Murfreesborough, April 22, 1863.

General SHERIDAN:

GENERAL: General Rosecrans orders that you push your brigade on the Middleton dirt road out four or five miles farther down, with the same instructions they had yesterday. You will keep this brigade properly supported. Report from time to time any information gained.

I am, general, respectfully,

A. McD. McCOOK,

Major-General, Commanding.

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HEADQUARTERS TWENTIETH ARMY CORPS,
Murfreesborough, April 22, 1863.

General SHERIDAN:

GENERAL: General McCook directs me to say that, inasmuch as it seems to have been intended that this brigade should remain in an advance position longer than one day, he thinks it best that Colonel Laiboldt's or some other brigade from your division should continue to hold some position in advance. General Johnson's brigade, under Colonel Gibson, is still on the Shelbyville pike, two miles in advance of Stone's River bridge, at Anderson's and the general directs that you place a brigade on the Middleton dirt road, abou as far to the front, so as to make a proper defensive line.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

G. P. THRUSTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff.

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SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE TENNESSEE, Numbers 112.
Miliken's Bend, La., April 22, 1863.

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8. Brigadier General G. W. Deitzler is hereby relieved from duty in this department, and will report in person without delay to Major General Irvin McDowell, president of the military court of inquiry now in session at Saint Louis.

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16. Brigadier General John E. Smith, U. S. Volunteers, will report in person without delay to Major General James B. McPherson, commanding Seventeenth Army Corps, for assignment to command of First Brigade, Third Division, of said army corps.

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By order of Major General U. S. Grant:

John A. RAWLINS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

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GENERAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. DIST. OF CENTRAL Kentucky, Numbers 44.
Lexington, Ky., April 24, 1863.

First Lieutenant O. M. Poe, U. S. Engineers, is hereby announced as chief of engineers of this district.

By command of Brigadier General O. B. Willcox:

NICOLAS BOWEN,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

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