The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 45, In Two Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc. Page: 86
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KY., SW. VA., TE NN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. [CHAP. LYVI.
NASHVILLE, December 7, 1864-9.15 p. m.
Admiral S. P. LEE, Clarksville:
,Your dispatch of 8 p. m. is just received. Captain Fitch is here, and
will go down the river at daylight to-morrow morning as far as Har-
peth Shoals.
GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
CHIEF QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE,
DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864.
Brig. Gen. W. D. WHIPPLE,
Chief of Staff. Headquarters Department of the Cumberland:
GENERAL: The following copy of a telegram just received is furnished
you for the information of the major-general commanding:
LOUISVILLE, KY., December 7, 1864.
General Donaldson arrived this morning. Please inform General Thomas that he
will leave for Nashville soon as possible.
ROBT. ALLEN,
Brigadier-General and Chief Quartermaster.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES F. RUSLING,
Capt. and Asst. Qm., Actg. Chief Qm., Dept. of the Cumberland.
SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS, HDQRS. DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,
No. 335. Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 1864.
IV. Brig. Gen. K. Garrard, U. S. Volunteers, is hereby relieved from
duty with the Second Cavalry Division, and will report in person to
Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith, commanding the Detachment Army of the
Tennessee, for assignment to duty.
V. Paragraph I, Special Field Orders, No. 333, current series, from
these headquarters, assigning Maj. Gen. D. N. Couch, U. S. Volun-
teers, to duty with the Fourth Army Corps, is hereby revoked. Major-
General Couch will report in person to Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield,
commanding Twenty-third Army Corps, for assignmlient to duty.
VI. Colonel Doolittle, Eighteenth Michigan Volunteers, is hereby
relieved from duty with Brigadier-General Miller, commandillg post,
and will report for temporary duty to Brigadier-General Cox, com-
manding Third Division, Twenty-third Army Corps.
By command of Major-General Thomas:
HENRY M. CIST,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant- General.
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH ARMY CORPS,
December 7, 1864--8.30 a. m.
Major-General THOMAS :
Your telegram of the 6th instant received this morning. I shall
readily serve wherever I am ordered, but cannot, of my own election,
take a position that would throw me into a lesser connmmand.
D. N. COUCH,
Major-General.0 86
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