HDQRS. CAVALRY CORPS, MIL. DIV. OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
On the Road, December 31, 1864

Brigadier General T. J. WOOD,

Commanding Fourth Army Corps:

GENERAL: I am directed to inform you that the Elk River is fordable at the crossing near Rogersville.

Respectfully,

A. J. ALEXANDER,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Acting Chief of Staff.

HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
Lexington, Ala., December 31, 1864-2.15 p.m.

Lieutenant-Colonel HAYES,

Chief Quartermaster, Fourth Army Corps:

The general commanding directs that you send all of the trains and property of the corps, save the artillery, to Athens and Huntsville. The commanding officer at Athens will give you a note stating the particular disposition to be made of the trains. Headquarters will be at Huntsville. You will move directly from Pulaski to Athens.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

J. S. FULLERTON,

Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General.

COLUMBIA, December 31, 1864

Brigadier-General WHIPPLE,

Chief of Staff:

Is not the route via Lewisburg and Shelbyville better than that via Pulaski and Fayetteville? The road from this place to Shelbyville is all pike, except ten miles.

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General.

GENERAL THOMAS' HEADQUARTERS,

December 31, 1864

Major-General SCHOFIELD,

Columbia:

Do not start from Columbia until further orders.s Circumstances may render it necessary for the Twenty-third Corps [to move] in another direction.

WM. D. WHIPPLE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

COLUMBIA, December 31, 1864

General W. D. WHIPPLE:

Your dispatch ordering the movement of Twenty-third Corps to be delayed, and that of General Thomas in relation to the four additional regiments, are received.

J. M. SCHOFIELD,

Major-General.