your arrangements to draw rations and forage at La Grange for five days. There is information that an attack may be made in a few days, and in our present condition great vigilance is necessary. Look especially to your left flank while on the march, and instructions will be forwarded to you when you arrive at La Grange.

By order of Edward Hatch, colonel commanding division:
S. L. WOODWARD,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

Brigadier-General REID:

A large force is approaching Paducah. Please ask Admiral Porter to send a gunboat there at once, if practicable.

COLUMBUS, KY., October 31, 1863.

A. J. SMITH,
Brigadier-General.

SPECIAL ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. AND ARMY OF THE TENN., Waterloo, Ala., October 31, 1863.

No. 6.

I. Pursuant to instructions from the general commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi, the Third Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps, Brigadier-General Tuttle commanding, will move at once by boats, via Cairo and up the Tennessee River, landing opposite Eastport, and push forward, via Florence, to join its proper

Abstract from returns of the Military Division of the Mississippi, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding, for the month of October, 1863.*

* Compiled from the subordinate, as the most accurate, returns.

Heavy.

Field.

Abstract from returns of the Department of the Cumberland, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, commanding, October 31, 1863.

a Murfreesborough, Elk River, Dallas, Anderson's Cross-Roads.

bTullahoma, Stevenson, Ala., Chattanooga, Murfreesborough, Anderson's Cross-Roads, Big Harpeth, Walden's Ridge, and Sullivan's Branch.

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Organization of troops in the Department of the Cumberland, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, U. S. Army, commanding, October 31,

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS.

10th Ohio, Lieut. Col. William M. Ward.

1st Battalion Ohio Sharpshooters, Capt. Gershom M. Barber.
Pioneer Brigade, Brig. Gen. J. St. Clair Morton.

1st Michigan Engineers, Col. William P. Innes.

Signal Corps, Capt. Jesse Merrill.

Indiana Light, 5th Battery, Capt. Peter Simonson.
4th United States, Battery H, Lieut. Harry C. Cushing.
4th United States, Battery M, Lieut. Francis L. D. Russell.

1st Illinois Light, Battery M, Capt. George W. Spencer.
Indiana Light, 10th Battery, Capt. William A. Naylor.
1st Missouri Light, Battery G, Lieut. Gustavus Schueler.

Third Brigade.

Brig. Gen. SAMUEL BEATTY.

44th Indiana, Lieut. Col. Simeon C. Aldrich.
79th Indiana, Col. Frederick Knefler.

86th Indiana, Col. George F. Dick.
9th Kentucky, Col. George H. Cram.

17th Kentucky, Col. Alexander M. Stout.
13th Ohio, Col. Dwight Jarvis, jr.
19th Ohio, Col. Charles F. Manderson.
59th Ohio, Maj. Robert J. Vanosdol.

Artillery.

Capt. CULLEN BRADLEY.

Bridges' (Illinois) Battery, Capt. Lyman Bridges.
Ohio Light, 6th Battery, Lieut. Oliver H. P. Ayres.
Pennsylvania Light, Battery B, Lieut. Samuel M. McDowell.

ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH ARMY CORPS.

Maj. Gen. JOSEPH HOOKER.

PROVOST GUARD.

10th Maine, 1st Battalion, Capt. John D. Beardsley.

ELEVENTH ARMY CORPS.

Maj. Gen. OLIVER O. HOWARD.

HEADQUARTERS.

Independent Company, 8th New York Infantry, Capt. Anton Bruhn.