start as soon as possible. Do not fail to advise the officer of the scout sent out to-night toward Berlin from your command as also that from General Croxton's.

This by command of Brigadier-General Johnson:

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. T. WELLS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CAVALRY DIVISION,
Near Columbia, Tenn., November 25, 1864.

Colonel CAPRON,

Commanding Brigade:

COLONEL: You will move your command at once through town on to the Lewisburg pike. The object of the movement is to feel to the left of our line for the enemy; simply a reconnaissance, which being completed the command will return to camp. You will therefore leave the camps standing in charge of a few men from each battalion. You will take no transportation except ambulances.

By order of Brigadier-General Johnson:

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

E. T. WELLS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Columbia, Tennessee, November 25, 1864.

Brigadier-General CROXTON:

The general commanding directs that you report with your brigade temporarily to Brigadier-General Johnson, commanding Sixth Division, Cavalry Corps.

I am, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

LEVI T. GRIFFIN,

Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

NEAR COLUMBIA, November 25, 1864.

[Colonel HORACE CAPRON,

Commanding Brigade Cavalry:]

COLONEL: By direction of General Johnson I send you sergeant of escort who has report to make of suspicious persons seen near picket-