FOOT OF LOST MOUNTAIN, GA., June 17, 1864.

Major-General SCHOFIELD:

At the receipt of your dispatch we had possession of the enemy's works leading from Lost to Kenesaw Mountain, and of the top of Lost Mountain. The mounted portion of the command was sent around the mountain via Lost Mountain Post-Office.

Respectfully, &c.,

GEORGE STONEMAN,

Major-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Near Lost Mountain, Ga., June 17, 1864.

Brigadier General M. S. HASCALL,

Commanding Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps:

GENERAL: The commanding general directs me to advise you that he is informed the enemy has abandoned the line in your front. If such is the case, the general desires you to advance your line at once and occupy the enemy's works, and then move forward and fell for his new position. Keep your right flank secure.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
In the Field, June 17, 1864.

Colonel R. K. BYRD,

Commanding Third Brigadier, Third Div., Twenty-third Army Corps:

COLONEL: The commanding general directs that you move your brigade to near the Hardshell Church, at the point where our forces entered the enemy's works at the intersection of the Sandtown road Burnt Hickory roads, where you will remain until all the trains of the Twenty-third Army Corps have passed that point, when you will move forward and report to General Cox.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, FIFTEENTH ARMY CORPS,
Nea Big Shanty, Ga., June 17, 1864.

Major R. R. TOWNES,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

MAJOR: Lieutenant Lacey, of my detachment of mounted infantry, who had been sent out to look for wheat and corn for forage, reports that he learned from citizens near mouth of Little River that Wheeler's cavalry, said to be about 2,000 strong, had passed toward the north on the east bank of Little River yesterday forenoon, stating that their object was Etowah River at Barney's Bridge, and then make for the railroad. The inhabitants stated that General Garrard's cav-