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STEVENSON, [November 17,] 1864.
Major-General MILROY:
The officer at the tunnel reports that the Tracy City train was captured to-day by about fifty or sixty guerrillas; two of our men badly wounded and one captured; and also that they were going to Gizzard Creek to burn the bridge. I have ordered seventy men from Decherd to go to Gizzard Creek.
W. KRZYZANOWSKI,
Colonel, Commanding.
NASHVILLE, November 17, 1864.
COMMANDING OFFICER,
Columbia:
Report upon receipt of this dispatch whether the pontoon bridge has been finished, and if so, when it was completed.
GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
NASHVILLE, November 17, 1864-4.30 p. m.
Major-General STONEMAN,
Louisville:
Your dispatch of yesterday is received. I wish you to send all the mounted force you can raise to East Tennessee. I have directed General Steedman to send all the infantry he can spare from Chattanooga.
GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE OHIO,
Louisville, Ky., November 17, 1864.Major-General THOMAS:
The following telegram just received from General Burbridge:
LEXINGTON, November 16, 1864.
Lieutenant-Colonel BASCOM,
Assistant Adjutant-General, Louisville:
I can concentrate five regiments-Eleventh Michigan Cavalry, Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, Eleventh Kentucky Cavalry, and Thirtieth and Thirty-ninth Kentucky Mounted Infantry-in three days. They number in all about 1,850 effective mounted men; they are now scattered after guerrillas. If horses and equipments can be had, I can mount 2,000 more men in ten days. If my troops are wanted at the front, I am ready to command them.
S. G. BURBRIDGE,
Brevet Major-General, Commanding.
I have directed General Burbridge to concentrate his available mounted force at some point on the road leading from Lexington to Cumberland Gap, so that either it can be pushed into East Tennessee or be used to repel any attempt to penetrate into Kentucky from that direction. There are about 800 men at Cumberland Gap, all dismounted.
GEO. STONEMAN,
Major-General.
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