HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DISTRICT OF Kentucky,
Lexington, Ky., September 13, 1864.

Brigadier General N. C. McLEAN,

Commanding First DIVISION:

GENERAL: Lieutenant R. Vance, provost-marshal-general Military District of Kentucky, has been directed to turn over to Captain George Hamilton, provost-marshal First DIVISION, two guerrillas prisoners, william Deal, alias William L. Master, and John Lancaster. The general commanding directs that these men be sent to Colonel D. A. Mims, at Louisa, to be publicly shot to death, in retaliation for the murder of a Union citizen, in accordance with indorsement from these headquarters on communication from Mr. R. D. Callahan, sent to you August 23.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. BATES DICKSON,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, DISTRICT OF Kentucky,
Lexington, Ky., September 13, 1864.

Colonel R. W. RATLIFF,

Commanding Post:

The general directs that your order Colonel S. B. Brown to call in his detachments and move at once with his whole mounted force to Mount Sterling.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. S. BUTLER,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, September 13, 1864.

(Received 12 m.)

Major General H. W. HALLECK,

Chief of Staff;

The time of the One hundred and thirty-THIRD Illinois, at Rock Island, has expired, and that of the Forty-eighth Iowa will in a few days. This will leave only the One hundred and ninety-seventh Pennsylvania - a new regiment - and not a sufficient guard for the large number of prisoners at Rock Island. I have no troops available to re-enforce them.

S. P. HEINTZELMAN,

Major-General.

[SEPTEMBER 13, 1864. - For Canby to Washburn, in relation to A. J. Smith's DIVISION, Rosecrans to Washburn, in relation to Mower's DIVISION, and Canby to Dana, in relation to proposed attack on Vicksburg, see Vol. XLI.]

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, Atlanta, Ga., September 13, 1864.

General HOWARD,

East Point:

I have a dispatch from General Grant that a special messenger is on his way to me, doubtless with maps and full discussions of the next plans. I have thought more of consolidating the three corps into two,