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jackets, or all blouses, that there may be a uniformity, and each division will draw all hats, or all caps, as the division commanders shall determine. The trains are to be organized at Nashville. I will see General Thomas' adjutant-general, and request that Surg. A. I. Comfort be ordered to you for duty.
I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. B. BEAUMONT,
Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS,
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,On Lawrenceburg and Pulaski Road,
Three and a half Miles from Lawrenceburg, November 22, 1864-11 p.m.
Major General J. M. SCHOFIELD,
Pulaski, Tenn.:
There is no question about the advance of General Hood's army being in Lawrenceburg to-night; infantry with some cavalry. I shall pass within ten miles of Pulaski on my way to Campbellsville, and any orders you may have would reach me there. I shall reach that point about daylight. I still think their cavalry have struck for the railroad.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
EDWARD HATCH,
Brigadier-General.
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH DIVISION CAVALRY,
Lawrenceburg, November 22, 1864.Colonel CAPRON, or
Commanding OFFICER BRIGADE CAV. ON MOUNT PLEASANT ROAD:
I learn you have fallen back from Waynesborough on the road to Mount Pleasant; if so, hold on where you are until pressed back. Scout well your right flank; endeavor to learn if the enemy are moving round your right toward Nashville. I will keep your left well scouted. If pressed on the right, fall back on me, moving by your left.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
EDWARD HATCH,
Brigadier-General.
DECATUR, November 22, 1864-2 p.m.
Major-General THOMAS:
Courier just in from Brown's Ferry reports all quiet there and at mouth of Elk River. Elk River too high to be forded, and rising.
R. S. GRANGER,
Brigadier-General, Commanding.
CHATTANOOGA, November 22, 1864.
Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,
Chief of Staff:
No news from any direction to-day. All quiet. The work of taking up track progresses slowly on account of the storm.
JAS. B. STEEDMAN,
Major-General.
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