second Ohio Volunteers, acting assistant inspector-general; Captain J. T. Conklin, chief quartermaster; Lieutenant W. W. Bliss, Forty-ninth Illinois Infantry Volunteers, acting assistant quartermaster; Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Cox, chief commissary of subsistence; First Lieutenant W. H. Kellogg, Tenth Missouri Infantry Volunteers, acting commissary of subsistence; Major T. D. Maurice, First Missouri Artillery, chief of artillery; Major George Pomutz, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, provost-marshal; Captain William Duncan, Eleventh Illinois Infantry, ordnance officer; Surg. J. H. Boucher, medical director.

By command of Major General F. P. Blair:

A. J. ALEXANDER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS, No. 125. Huntsville, Ala., May 24, 1864.

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XV. This command will move to-morrow morning, as follows: The Third Division will move, with its wagons, promptly at 6 o'clock on the road to Decatur. The Fourth Division, with its wagons, will move promptly at 7 o'clock, following the Third Division and keeping close on its rear during the march. The corps supply train will move immediately in rear of and be protected and guarded by the Third Division. The corps headquarters train will move in rear of the First Brigade of the Third Division. Provost-marshals will use every exertion to prevent straggling. Under instructions from the provost-marshal-general of this corps they are authorized to call upon division and brigade commanders for a guard of sufficient strength to enforce this order.

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By command of Major General Frank P. Blair:

A. J. ALEXANDER,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS,

On Raccoon Creek, May 25, 1864-2.12 p.m.

Brigadier General W. D. WHIPPLE:

Johnson's division is on the ridge in front of Raccoon Creek. The roads, front and rear, are crowded with trains of the Fourth and Twentieth Corps. Department ordnance train and my own supplies are still behind and will not reach here before 9 o'clock to-night. If necessary to move up and abandon trains please inform me, otherwise I will remain here and bring all forward, but will not in that case be able to reach Dallas before the afternoon to-morrow. Please answer by bearer.

J. M. PALMER,

Major-General.

HDQRS. CHIEF OF CAVALRY, DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,
May 25, 1864-3 p.m.

Major-General BUTTERFIELD and

Brigadier-General McCOOK,

Commanding First Division Cavalry:

GENERAL: I send by order of General Thomas Captain Warner, commanding my escort. He had the maps of the country and the roads have been pointed out to him. General Thomas directs that if you have