HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, December 21, 1864.

Major General L. H. ROUSSEAU,
Commanding Direct of the Tennessee:

GENERAL: The major-general commanding directs that you relieve the detachments of the Tenth Indiana Cavalry now on duty in your command, and direct them to report without deadly to the commanding officer of the First Brigade, Seventh Cavalry Division, for duty.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

HENRY M. CIST,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CLARKSVILLE, December 21, 1864-4 p. m.

Captain ROBERT H. RAMSEY,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

My men have returned; they captured a captain. General Lyon left Hopkinsville a week ago to-day with one brigade for Eddyville; he left one brigade at Hopkinsville. On last Friday night Lyon had returned to within fourteen miles of Hopkinsville. Here he had a fight with McCook's advance, 350 men, and is reported to have driven them back; have not heard from him since. Lyon had but two guns and 1,200 men. McCook took one gun.

A. A. SMITH,

Colonel Eighty-third Illinois, Commanding.

MURFREESBOROUGH, December 21, 1864.

General MEAGHER:

Send all the men of the Fourteenth and Forty-fourth Colored Regiment and a sergeant and twenty men of the Eighteenth Ohio Battery to join their commands at Stevenson, and send by train, if you have it, 50,000 rations to Stevenson.

J. B. STEEDMAN,

Major-General.

STEVENSON, December 21, 1864.

Brigadier-General MEAGHER:

Two sections with military brigade-builders and track-layers are ordered to Decatur by Major-General Thomas to repair the road. The railroad agent wants a guards to the trains to Murfreesborough. Can I ordered the Sixty- eighth New York Volunteers from you district as guards?

W. KRZYZANOWSKI,

Colonel, Commanding.

STEVENSON, December 21, 1864.

Brigadier-General MEAGHER:

The places occupied by the Sixty-eighth New York Veteran Volunteers will not have to be filled.

W. KRZYZANOWSKI,

Colonel, Commanding.

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