your troops, and acknowledgment of the receipt of printed copies of instructions. A brigade will probably be sent from here to bridgehead at Bridgeport. If so, you will be notified.

DANL. BUTTERFIELD,

Major-General, Chief of Staff.

HDQRS. SECOND DIVISION, TWELFTH ARMY CORPS,
October 31, 1863.

Major-General HOWARD,

Commanding Eleventh Army Corps:

GENERAL: Yours of this [morning] has been received. With regard to your troops forming in junction with mine, I verbally mentioned to General Hooker 8 o'clock as the time. Upon consulting my records, I find in my written communications to the general that I reported one brigade as having reported at half past 5 o'clock and the other at 7 o'clock. My verbal statement was a mistake.

I have the honor to be, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JNumbers W. GEARY,

Brigadier-General of Volunteers.

HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CORPS,
Lookout Valley, Tennessee, October 31, 1863.

Brigadier-General GEARY:

General Hooker directs that not a tree or a limb be disturbed inside our new line. All the woods and brush must be preserved to conceal our troops and the movement of trains.

Very respectfully, &c.,

DANL. BUTTERFIELD,

Major-General, Chief of Staff.

OCTOBER 31, 1863-11.10 p. m.

General REYNOLDS:

Tents of the enemy in and on Lookout moved before dark. No lights in Lookout Valley at this hour.

WHITAKER,

Brigadier-General.

MAYSVILLE, October 31, 1863.

Major W. H. SINCLAIR,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Have just captured Lieutenant Manohen [?], of General Wheeler's staff, with 3 of his men. I got back the horses taken from my men.

GEORGE CROOK,

Brigadier-General.