NASHVILLE, December 11, 1864.

Major-General SCHOFIELD:

Have your command put in readiness to-morrow for operations. I wish to see you at my headquarters at 3 p.m. to-morrow. Acknowledge receipt.

GEO. H. THOMAS,

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

(Same to Major-General Steedman, Major-General Smith, and Brigadier-General Wood.)

HEADQUARTERS TWENTY-THIRD ARMY CORPS, December 11, 1864-11 p.m.

[Major-General THOMAS:]

Your dispatch of this date received. I shall be ready.

J. M. SCHOFIELD,
Major-General.

SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF THE OHIO,

No. 177. Nashville, Tenn., December 11, 1864.

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XVI. The Fifteenth Indiana Battery, Captain A. D. Harvey commanding, is hereby transferred from the Third to the Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps, and will report to Major-General Couch, commanding.

XVII. Battery F, First Michigan Light Artillery, Captain B. D. Padock commanding, and the Twenty-second Indiana Battery, Captain E. W. Nicholson commanding, are hereby transferred from the Second to the First Division, and will report to Brigadier-General Ruger, commanding.

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By command of Major-General Schofield:

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
Nashville, Tenn., December 11, 1864.

Major General D. N. COUCH,

Commanding Second Division, Twenty-third Army Corps:

GENERAL: The commanding general directs you to instruct the officers in command of your pickets not to permit any intercourse or anything like a truce between our pickets and those of the enemy.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. A. CAMPBELL,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.