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captured; this not certain. Breckinridge is reported in command, with a force variously estimated at from 2,000 to 8,000 men. I have ordered Steedman to re-enforce Ammen, if the latter wishes it.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THEE OHIO,


Numbers 153.
Pulaski, Tenn., November, 14, 1864.

By direction of Major-General Thomas, commanding District of the Cumberland, I hereby assume command of all the troops assembling at Pulaski and operating in front of that place.

Commanding officers will send to these headquarters, without delay, consolidated returns of the effective strength of their commands.

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General.


SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. THIRD DIV., 23rd ARMY CORPS,

Numbers 120.
Lynnville, Tenn., November 14, 1864.

This command will march at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning to Pulaski in the following order, viz: Second Brigade, Colonel Casement commanding; Fifteenth and Twenty-third Indiana Batteries; First Brigade, General Reilley commanding; Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth Indiana Brigade, Colonel Henderson commanding.

By command of Brigadier General J. D. Cox:

THEO. COS,

Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, November 14, 1864-9 a. m.

Major-General STANELY, Pulaski:

Your dispatch of yesterday just received.* I want you to assist General Hatch in hauling forage to his command at Taylor's Springs, Ala., until he can get his wagons from Memphis.

GOE. H. THOMAS,

Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, Tenn., December 14, 1864.

Brigadier General K. GARRARD,

Commanding Second Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Cumberland:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding the department directs me to tender you his thanks for you officer-like conduct and devotion to the real interests of the service in volunteering to escort to Nashville from Chattanooga more than 3,000 animals unfit for further service in the field, and which it was desirable to send to the rear as quickly as possible.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.

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*See Vol. XXXIX, Part III, p. 767.

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