HEADQUARTERS FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION, JOHN G. PARKE: AL: Your communication received. I only proposed to Morganton in case the fords and ferries were to be picketed. iles from here to the nearest point of the river. I am sat- some 1,200 or more rebel cavalry were on this side the nessee last Friday, but went back, probably from fear of er; and I do not think there is any force this side now. 1 received reports from my scouts yet, but the reports of the rds and others are that they, the rebels, have all recrossed. the party that went by the way of Unitia to report to Potter, and both parties to go as far as the river, unless with too great a force. Wolford has purchased several horses, and thinks the favorable for getting a number. Wolford has just returned from Morganton, bringing in ers with their arms, horses, &c. They were taken at the party of about 100 had been on this side. He reports conforce on the other side; saw about a regiment on foot. aptured the rebel guide, a man who has taken the oath. is fordable at Morganton. The prisoners say their force rossing in the morning. Heard of a force in the direction , but thinks it the same party that were crossing when he heir rear. rty on Nine-Mile Creek road is also in, but did not find any end the prisoners on in the morning. spectfully, W. P. SANDERS, Brigadier-General of Volunteers. Mr. Kennedy, sr., especially desires that I shall give his on, which he says came through one of the most influential d was only given to him under strict promise of secrecy. e effect that the rebel plan is to cross the Little Tennessee s places with a force of some 40,000 men, occupy Blount and ounties, and then get around Knoxville and drive us from oor destroy our line of connections. They were to have to-day but for the high water. BURNSIDE : W. P. SANDERS, Brigadier-General of Volunteers. HENDERSON, November 2, 1863. AL: Your dispatch received. I thank you for your kindhave here not exceeding 1,800 well-mounted men. I could 400 men on serviceable horses that are classed as unservicecluding the batteries, I have here over 3,000 fighting men. suggest that the horses belonging to the Eighth Tennessee t, about 250, be turned over to one of the brigades; and that nent or that part of it that is left (for want of field officers a mber have deserted and absented themselves from the regid the balance are demoralized and inefficient) be sent to Morristown or some other point and be placed in a camp of instruction under efficient field officers. I have heard nothing more from Williams. My apprehensions were based upon information received by General Willcox from a man by name of Spencer, corroborating Burke's statements and the statements of citizens who came into camp here, and also from the fact of the enemy presenting small detachments at different fords, but making no demonstrations on this side of the river. J. M. SHACKELFORD, Brigadier-General. COLUMBUS, Ky., Brigadier-General REID, Commanding: I have just been informed that a large rebel cavalry force is advancing toward Paducah. Please inform Admiral Porter of this report; also telegraph Colonel Hicks, at Paducah. I have not been able to communicate with Union City this morning. Capt. T. H. HARRIS, A. J. SMITH, HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF COLUMBUS, Assistant Adjutant-General: I have the honor to report that the One hundred and eleventh Illinois left Paducah last night with ample transportation, and 100 rounds of ammunition to the man over and above what was issued. Colonel Martin was restored to and took command of his regiment before leaving. On the 28th ultimo three companies of the Fifty-eighth Illinois were ordered to Paducah to protect the public property until it could be removed. There are now four general hospitals at Paducah. Is it the intention of the department they shall remain there after all protection is removed? Very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. J. SMITH, Captain SEMPLE, Louisville: MUNFORDVILLE, November 2, 1863. Colonel Strickland reports rebels concentrating at Mill Creek, Tenn. He thinks from reports of scouts and citizens that they are in stronger force than is generally believed; and from best information believes they are preparing for another raid. I have directed Colonel Strickland to keep scouting parties on the alert. It is of the utmost importance that equipments be forwarded to Lebanon and Glasgow, that troops may be mounted and ready. E. H. HOBSON, Brigadier-General. CHATTANOOGA, November 3, 1863. Maj. Gen. JAMES B. MCPHERSON, Vicksburg, Miss.: Send without delay, via the Tennessee River to Danville, Tenn., all he locomotives at Vicksburg with the exception of two and all the ars with the exception of ten. Let the locomotives and cars be the est you have. They are required for immediate use. U. S. GRANT, . B. ANDERSON, Nashville: CHATTANOOGA, November 3, 1863. Complaints are made of stores not being [sent] fast enough over Louisville and Nashville Railroad. If stores do not come up the Cumberland in steamers, the Louisville road must send at least forty ar-loads of provisions daily besides quartermaster's stores. U. S. GRANT. CINCINNATI, November 3, 1863. eneral GRANT : Colonel Haines telegraphs he can send stores if the Cumberland ets high enough, and that he will let me know as soon as boats can et through from Cairo. I use his own words. C. L. KILBURN, Lieutenant-Colonel and Commissary of Subsistence. CINCINNATI, November 3, 1863. eneral GRANT: A small rise in river here. Will take advantage to load small oats from here. Will notify Symonds to be ready. Will also otify Colonel Haines. Will use every exertion to send you stores y water. C. L. KILBURN. HEADQUARTERS FIRST DIV., TWELFTH ARMY CORPS, ol. H. C. RODGERS, Assistant Adjutant-General, Twelfth Corps: COLONEL I inclose herewith a rough sketch* intended to show ne defensive works, garrisons, distances, &c., of the several posts n the line of railroad from Tullahoma to Bridgeport. I have irected sketches of roads leading to posts and cross-roads to be ade out and forwarded. I shall myself go over the road at once, nd direct such additional defenses at the bridges, culverts, and *Not found. tanks as seem necessary for the respective guards. Owing to the difficulty of obtaining transportation the Third Brigade has received only a portion of its intrenching tools. I beg leave to call attention of the major-general commanding to the anomalous position of Colonel Coburn and his command. Čolonel Coburn is in command of a brigade of Steedman's division, Granger's corps, I believe. His brigade consists of Thirty-third Indiana (scattered in seven different posts), Eighty-fifth Indiana at Duck River, Nineteenth Michigan at McMinnville, and a regiment (not known to me) at Murfreesborough.* The scattered companies of the Thirty-third Indiana are of little service, excepting the company at Tracy City, and one at the trestle below this. They are at points held by detachments of my division, and with their different notions of duty, and a most unaccountable prejudice, do not cheerfully cooperate with us. Colonel Coburn, as a brigade commander in a different corps, I fancy, thinks his rights somewhat intrenched upon, and his officers and men, generally, sympathize in the feeling. If his brigade, or two or three regiments, could be concentrated on either flank of this division and take adjacent posts, the service of guarding the road would be much better performed. He might relieve two or three regiments of this division, which could take the posts he now occupies. As it now stands part of Coburn's brigade is within the limits of my command and part outside. It is a sort of military imperium in imperio, which works badly. I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant, HEADQUARTERS ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CORPS, Lieut. Col. C. GODDARD, Assistant Adjutant-General, Army of the Cumberland: I have the honor to report that the 200 cavalry I sent out in the direction of Trenton yesterday have returned, after having gone nearly to that point, and report that they were forced to come back by a rebel cavalry force which they took to be one brigade. They saw no troops of other arms. While absent they ran on to a picket and captured 7 of their number. I have given the colonel directions to encamp his men within my lines and send out, until further orders, a squadron to picket the approaches to the Bridgeport road, between the Wauhatchie and Whiteside's. This will render that road safe for trains and couriers. I desire to have the attention of the commander of the department called to the expediency of having a brigade of infantry, under a good commander, with one battery, established at Trenton or vicinity, as this will afford a point-d'appui for our cavalry force, however small, to operate on. They can draw their supplies from Bridgeport or Shellmound. Very respectfully, &c., JOSEPH HOOKER, Major-General, Commanding. *It was the Twenty-second Wisconsin. ARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, GILLEM, Chattanooga, November 3, 1863. ment Colored Troops, from Elk River, will be ordered For duty on the Northwestern Railroad. A regiment strong, now maching from Louisville, will also be uard duty. The general commanding wishes you to of this regiment (Eighth Iowa Cavalry) in discient and perfecting it in drill, as it is but recently the troops on the Northwestern Railroad are under while engaged on that work, and the general expects em and enforce discipline. ajor-General Thomas: C. GODDARD, Assistant Adjutant-General. ARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Chattanooga, November 3, 1863. FFICER, g to the inclosed communication from Capt. P. U. g the indorsement of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, the mmanding directs you to send all officers and men rebel cavalry under Wheeler in his recent raid into e, and who are now under your control, to report to commands for duty. You will please put them of the senior officer, and direct him to report them . S. Granger, commanding post, Nashville, to be very respectfully, your obedient servant, eturned. C. GODDARD, Assistant Adjutant-General. [Indorsement.] HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES, Columbus, Ohio, November 17, 1863. circumstances under which these officers and men I were fully investigated, all who had reported were commands. WM. WALLACE, ifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Commanding. [Inclosure.] CAMP CHASE, OHIO, LEE, No Gen., Third Div., Twentieth Army Corps: at for the life of me I cannot say what for. received the letter I wrote you from Nashville, f the capture of the train. I reported to Brigadierr on the 8th with a portion of the men captured against my wishes ordered me to report to Camp arrived yesterday. I am here without a cent of the |