bad and muddy roads, besides all their foraging being done by picking up here and there what could be found and packing it many miles to camp. An effort was made to obtain shoes both at Pulaski and Columbia before coming down here, unsuccessfully. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, HORACE CAPRON, Colonel, Comdg. Brigade, Cavalry Corps, Mil. Div. of the Miss. NASHVILLE, TENN., November 23, 1864. Brigadier-General VAN CLEVE, Murfreesborough, Tenn.: Major-General Rousseau directs me to request you to please meet me at railroad station this evening to receive verbal instructions with reference to contemplated movements. I leave Nashville on the 2.15 train for Stevenson, and will require about five minutes. THOS. C. WILLIAMS, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. Major-General MILROY, Tullahoma, Tenn.: NASHVILLE, November 23, 1864—2 p. m. I am directed to proceed to Stevenson, under orders from Major-General Rousseau, and to request you to please meet me at Tullahoma this evening to receive verbal directions with reference to contemplated operations. I leave here on the 2.15 train. What I have to commuuicate will require about five minutes. [The] major-general requires that you will be at the station, in order that I can proceed to Stevenson at once to-night, after giving you his instructions. THOS. C. WILLIAMS, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH, Chattanooga, November 23, 1864. Major-General THOMAS, Nashville: I will relieve the men of the First and Second Ohio Heavy Artillery to-day and order the First Ohio Artillery to Knoxville. Respectfully, Maj. SOUTHARD HOFFMAN, Chattanooga: J. B. STEEDMAN, Major-General. NASHVILLE, November 23, 1864. What sharpshooters are there in Chattanooga? The general wishes them to prepare for field service as headquarters guards. WM. D. WHIPPLE, Assistant Adjutant-General. Brig. Gen. W. D. WHIPPLE: CHATTANOOGA, November 23, 1864. There are three companies of sharpshooters here, 180 and 200 men. Sixty men are up the river cutting timber; they will be down Saturday, unless sooner ordered. SOUTHARD HOFFMAN, Assistant Adjutant-General. NASHVILLE, November 23, 1864. Maj. S. HOFFMAN, Chattanooga: Order the sharpshooters down the river at once. Kellogg left here for Chattanooga this morning. WM. D. WHIPPLE, SPECIAL ORDERS, ) HEADQUARTERS CHIEF OF ARTILLERY, No. 80. DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, I. Capt. H. Dilger, First Ohio Artillery, will assume command of Fort Phelps, relieving Captain Prescott and receipting to that officer for all public property now in the fort. Immediately on being relieved Captain Prescott will report for duty to these headquarters. Brig. Gen. and Chief of Artillery, Dept. of the Cumberland. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF THE ETOWAH, Chattanooga, November 23, 1864. Colonel HAWLEY, Cleveland: As soon as relieved you will proceed with your command to Knoxville. You must arrive there to-morrow night. The four companies this way have been relieved and ordered to Knoxville to-morrow. You will take the train that brings troops to relieve you. By command of Major-General Steedman: S. B. MOE, Assistant Adjutant-General, HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND, Brigadier-General COOPER, Johnsonville: March as early to-morrow as you can with your brigade and the battery now with it to Centerville, by the road through Waverly. On arriving at Centerville, post your troops so as to guard the ford across Duck River at that place and Beard's Ferry, about five or ten miles above Centerville, and report your action to Brigadier-General Ruger, at Columbia. The men will take three days' rations on their persons and five days' rations and forage in their wagons. You can get the necessary wagons by receipting to Captain Howland, assistant quartermaster at Johnsonville. Answer. Inform me where Colonel Thompson, Twelfth Colored Infantry, is; I want him at Johnsonville. Col. C. R. THOMPSON, GEO. H.. THOMAS, Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding. NASHVILLE, November 24 [23], 1864-3 p. m. Johnsonville: I have ordered General Cooper to march his brigade to Centerville to-morrow morning. You will be left in command of Johnsonville. Have all the Government property except ten days' rations for the troops and employés there and ten days' forage for the teams sent to Nashville at once, if transportation can be had. Have the two fords of Duck River near your post picketed by the Second Tennessee Mounted Infantry, to give you timely notice of the approach of the enemy, and should he threaten you in such force as to endanger the entire safety of the garrison, you must withdraw the garrison with the wagon train and the battery of colored artillery to Fort Donelson, by the best and most direct road. Understand, however, that Johnsonville must not be abandoned, unless you are convinced that the enemy is approaching in such force as will make a successful defense of the post impossible and that he has the means of crossing Duck River. Should you have to fall back on Donelson send your wagons and artillery ahead, under a strong guard. The block-house garrisons can join you by way of Clarksville. Auswer. GEO. H. THOMAS, Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding. Major-General THOMAS: KNOXVILLE, November 23, 1864-5.30 p. m. I find upon inquiry that there [are] now on hand here 51,000 rations of meat, 54,000 rations of bread and flour together, and small rations in proportion-less than six days' rations for 10,000 men. Would it not be well to have more pushed forward immediately? GEO. STONEMAN, Major-General STONEMAN, Knoxville: NASHVILLE, November 23, 1864. General Steedman, at Chattanooga, telegraphs me that he will relieve the First and Second Ohio Heavy Artillery to-day and order the First Ohio Artillery to Knoxville. Have you any news? GEO. H. THOMAS, Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding. KNOXVILLE, November 23, 1864-6 p. m. Major-General THOMAS: Your dispatch received. I have just received a telegram from General Burbridge. His advance will be at Barboursville to-night. Scouts report main force of enemy at New Market, eight miles from Strawberry Plains, gathering in supplies. GEO. STONEMAN, KNOXVILLE, November 23, 1864. Major-General BURBRIDGE, Barboursville, Ky.: The enemy is near Morristown. General Stoneman is here. I have a small mounted force at this place; no others, but am expecting some. J. AMMEN, Brigadier-General of Volunteers. LEXINGTON, KY., November 23, 1864. His Excellency A. LINCOLN, President of the United States: Great complaints seem to have been made concerning the arrest of Lieutenant-Governor Jacob and ex-Col. Frank Wolford by General Burbridge. I state the sentiment of the leading loyal men of Kentucky in saying that General Burbridge's action was advised, and is fully indorsed by them. These men are too dangerous to the safety of Kentucky to be permitted to remain here making incendiary and treasonable speeches. It is hoped General Burbridge's action may not be interfered with. I will write you by mail. W. C. GOODLOE. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, November 23, 1864—2.20 p.m. Major-General BURBRIDGE, Lexington : Where is Governor Jacob now, and is he in custody? · EDWIN M. STANTON, LEXINGTON, November 23, 1864. Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: Governor Jacob was sent to Catlettsburg, Ky., with orders to the commander of that place to send him up the valley of the Kanawha into the rebel lines. He was at Catlettsburg on the 14th instant, since which time no report of him has been received. General Burbridge is in command of his troops en route for Cumberland Gap. Respectfully, J. BATES DICKSON, Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General. 64 R R-VOL XLV, PT I LEXINGTON, November 23, 1864. (Received 7.35 p. m.) N. P. CHIPMAN, Colonel, &c., Washington, D. C.: Lieutenant-Governor Jacob was arrested for making speeches in Kentucky, in which he advised armed resistance to the enrollment and enlistment of slaves; advised citizens to arm to resist military interference at the polls on election day; and generally his whole conduct and speeches have been wholly disloyal, calculated and intended to obstruct the Government in putting down the rebellion and to encourage the rebels to hold out and to expect aid from the North. The written evidence against him is in the hands of Lieutenant-Colonel Duff, acting assistant adjutant-general of Lieutenant-General Grant's staff, now on his way to Washington. His whereabouts are not known; he was at Catlettsburg on the 14th instant. The post commander at that place had orders to send him via the Kanawha Valley into the rebel lines. S. G. BURBRIDGE, Brevet Major-General, Commanding. LEXINGTON, KY., November 23, 1864. Brevet Major-General BURBRIDGE, Crab Orchard, Ky.: Dispatch received. No saddles yet arrived from Louisville; think I will have enough without them. Colonel Wade marched from here this afternoon. The Thirtieth is at Frankfort, and will reach here to-mor row; will send it forward at once. The Thirty-ninth and Forty-fifth, Buckley's, and Stanhope's, will leave Thursday; sooner, if I get enough horses. Detachments of the Eleventh Michigan must be near Crab Orchard; they have had time to reach you since they marched. I will remain, but will personally see every mounted man that can be got ready, beyond Camp Nelson, and farther, if I deem it necessary. N. C. MCLEAN, Brigadier-General. LEXINGTON, KY., November 23, 1864. Brevet Major-General BURBRIDGE, Barboursville, Ky.: I have labored night and day, and everything has either gone from here, or will yet march to Camp Nelson to-night, except the Thirtyninth Kentucky; they have been pressing horses for the command, and will return to-night; they will march in the morning. I will go myself to Camp Nelson, to insure the marching of every available mounted man from that place. Colonel Weatherford is to-day at Crab Orchard, having lost by desertion all but 150 of his men. He hopes 100 of them will join him at Crab Orchard. I never before had such trouble, and have succeeded thus far under great tribulation. Keep me posted, and don't let a force slip by you without giving me notice, so that I can raise troops for defense. N. C. MCLEAN, |