stationed. You will keep a picket there until further orders, and will order up the artillery, if you think it necessary. The artillery is camped between these headquarters and Columbia on this (Pulaski) pike.

Respectfully,

J. P. STRANGE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

HEADQUARTERS FORREST'S CAVALRY CORPS,
At Mr. Warfield's House, December 20, 1864-5.20 p. m.

Major General E. C. WALTHALL:

GENERAL: The major-general directs me to say that your dispatch is received; that you will make provision return for the number of men you may have on Major G. V. Rambaut, chief commissary of subsistence, to-morrow morning; and he also desires that you send to these headquarters a field return of your command in the morning.

Respectfully,

J. P. STRANGE,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

Major Rambaut will be at these headquarters.

GENERAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS INFANTRY FORCES

IN REAR OF ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

Numbers 1.
Columbia, Tenn., December 20, 1864.

The brigades of this command will be temporarily untied, as follows: Featherston's and Quarles', under command of Brigadier-General Featherston; Ector's and Reynolds', under command of Brigadier-General Reynolds; then Strahl's and Maney's, under command of Colonel Feild; Smith's and Palmer's, under command of Colonel Palmer. This command will stand in line in the following order: Featherston's brigade on the right, Feild's, Palmer's, and Reynolds', in the order they are named.

By command of Major-General Walthall:

D. W. SANDERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

CIRCULAR.] HEADQUARTERS INFANTRY FORCES

IN REAR OF ARMY OF TENNESSEE,

December 20, 1864.

The number of arms-bearing men in this command will at once be reported to these headquarters.*

The name and rank of each regimental and battalion commander will, with the least delay, be returned to these headquarters.

[By command of Major-General Walthall:

D. W. SANDERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.]

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*For the returns furnished in compliance with this order, see Part I, pp. 728-730.

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