HEADQUARTERS NORTHERN DEPARTMENT, COMMANDING OFFICER, Gallipolis, Ohio: You will obtain information of movements of the rebels on the Kanawha River, and report frequently. By command of Major-General Heintzelman: C. H. POTTER, Assistant Adjutant-General. A. LINCOLN, President: INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 30, 1864. My connection with the State militia having drawn my attention specially to the subject of our border defenses, I trust I may be pardoned for suggesting one or two matters of pressing necessity. The country between the Cumberland and Green Rivers, the resort of guerrillas, ought to be attached to the District of Indiana, and the commander of that district made independent of General Heintzelman. These two things, with an officer of General Hovey's energy and ability in charge, will enable [us] to defend the border of Indiana on the Kentucky side, check up the guerrilla bands, and insure large Government supplies to be drawn from the district residents who harbor the guerrillas. I have been on the ground and speak advisedly. JAS. HUGHES. [AUGUST 30, 1864.-For Canby to Washburn, in relation to the transfer of General A. J. Smith's command to Arkansas, see Vol. XLI.J HEADQUARTERS, General BURBRIDGE: Burkesville, Ky., August 31, 1864. We have reliable information that Wheeler is at McMinnville with large force; that Dibrell's advance was at Livingston last night. Two companies went toward Albany, Ky., and that 63 of Colonel Stokes' [regiment] were captured by them. JOS. GILKISON. LEXINGTON, August 31, 1864. Major RIGNEY, Commanding, Burkesville, Ky.: Keep a look out and don't be captured. Keep these headquarters. posted; also Colonel Brown, at Camp Burnside. By order of General McLean: J. S. BUTLER, SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, Į HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND, Near Renfroe's, Ga., August 31, 1864. No. 240. 1. Upon the recommendation of his Excellency Governor Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, and of the commanding officer of their division, it is hereby ordered that all men of the Fourth Division Cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland, now under charge of desertion, who have returned, or may return, voluntarily to duty with their commands on or before the 25th day of September next, shall be pardoned of the crime with which they stand charged, and restored to duty without trial. This will not be considered as establishing a precedent for future orders of this kind, but simply to afford those who desire to return to their duty an opportunity of doing so without being deterred by the fear of punishment. * By command of Major-General Thomas: WM. D. WHIPPLE, Assistant Adjutant-General. LEXINGTON, August 31, 1864. General HUGH EWING, Louisville, Ky.: Scottsville. I will order Hobson to look out from Lebanon. Watch Hold the Fifty-second at Bowling Green, and watch Gallatin and the railroad near Bowling Green. S. G. BURBRIDGE, Brevet Major-General, Commanding. HDQRS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, In the Field, Couche's House, August 31, 1864. Governor JOHNSON, Nashville: * I will hand your dispatch, relating to those parties in Knoxville, to General Schofield, who will give the necessary orders. General Webster is always empowered to act in all such cases. W. T. SHERMAN, Major-General, Commanding. Organization of troops in the Department of the Cumberland (not employed in the Atlanta Campaign), commanded by Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, August 31, 1864.t DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE. Maj. Gen. LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU. First Brigade.t Col. CHARLES C. DOOLITTLE. 73d Indiana, Maj. Alfred B. Wade. 102d Ohio, Col. William Given. 18th Michigan, Maj. Edwin M. Hulburd. 13th Wisconsin, Col. William P. Lyon. *See August 28, p. 311. For troops engaged in the Atlanta campaign, see Vol. XXXVIII, Part I, p. 89. Of Fourth Division, Twentieth Army Corps, Decatur, Ala. POST OF NASHVILLE, TENN. Brig. Gen. JOHN F. MILLER. 17th U. S. Colored Troops, Col. William R. Shafter. Garrison Artillery. Maj. JOSIAH W. CHURCH. 1st Tennessee Light, Battery C, Capt. Vincent Myers. Artillery Reserve.* Col. JAMES BARNETT. 4th United States, Battery F, Capt. Clermont L. Best. The regulars constituted the First Division, commanded by Capt. Clermont L. Best, and the volunteers the Second Division, commanded by Maj. John J. Ely. Col. CHARLES C. DOOLITTLE. HUNTSVILLE, ALA. Col. GILBERT M. L. JOHNSON. 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Battery F, 13th Indiana Cavalry, Lieut. Col. Will Capt. Daniel T. Cockerill. BOONESBOROUGH, ALA. 12th Indiana Cavalry, Col. Edward Anderson. LARKINSVILLE, ALA. Stewart. iam T. Pepper. PULASKI, TENN. Brig. Gen. JOIN C. STARKWEATHER. 9th Indiana Cavalry, Col. George W. Jackson. 11th Indiana Cavalry, Col. Robert R. 10th Indiana Cavalry, Col. Thomas N. Pace. Maj. CHARLES S. COTTER. Indiana Light, 4th Battery, Lient. Henry J. Willits. 1st Ohio Light, Battery I, Capt. Hubert Dilger. FOURTH CAVALRY DIVISION. Col. GEORGE SPALDING. 1st Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, Col. William P. Innes. 16th U. S. Colored Troops, Col. William B. Gaw. 44th U. S. Colored Troops,** Col. Lewis Johnson. 1st U. S. Veteran Volunteer Engineers, Col. William E. Merrill. At Columbia, Tenn. Headquarters at Lookout Mountain, Tenn. § At Chattanooga, Tenn. At Nashville, Tenn. ¶At Adairsville, Ga. **At Rome, Ga. |