U. S. Infantry, commissary of muster; Lieutenant H. E. Noyes, acting assistant inspector-general; Lieutenant Joseph A. Goddard, Fourth Ohio Cavalry, acting assistant quartermaster.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

E. B. BEAUMONT,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HDQRS. CAV. CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISS.

Nashville, Tenn., December 14, 1864.

Commanders of division and detached brigades are requested to report at these headquarters (Numbers 24. High street) at 3 o'clock this afternoon.

By command of Brevet Major-General Wilson:

A. J. ALEXANDER,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Chief of Staff.

GENERAL ORDERS, HDQRS. FIFTH DIV., CAVALRY CORPS,

MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,

Numbers 7.
Near Nashville, Tenn., December 14, 1864.

I. This command will be ready to move at daylight to-morrow morning, with one days' rations and 100 rounds of ammunition in cartridgebox and on person.

II. The brigades will move in columns of regiments, with space between regiments sufficient to deploy in line dismounted, with the exception of one regiment mounted in column in rear of each brigade. The led horses will follow the brigades at a distance of 500 to 1,000 yards.

III. The left of the Second Brigade will move on the right of Major General A. J. Smith's corps, conforming to the movements of the infantry line; the First Brigade on the right of the Second, conforming to the movements of the Second Brigade.

IV. Battery I, First Illinois Light Artillery, will move, where the road will allow it, on the left and rear of the Second Brigade. The Second Brigade will support the battery.

V. Brigade commanders will attack vigorously and push the enemy home wherever the attack commences, losing no opportunity of throwing their mounted regiments in on the charge wherever the opportunity offers.

VI. It being impossible to issue rations to-night, two days' rations will be loaded into wagons, and remain in camp ready to move at a moment's notice.

By order of Brigadier General Edward Hatch:

HERVEY A. COLVIN,

Adjutant Twelfth Tennessee Cavalry and Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
Nashville, Tenn., December 14, 1864.

Brigadier-General UPTON,

Cairo, Ill.:

By direction of brevet major-general commanding, I have the honor to report the following regiments as belonging to the Fourth Division: