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CHAP. LVII.] CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.-UNION. 43
afterward by negotiation. I am determined that security and tran-
quillity shall prevail along the border while I exercise command of this
department.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JOSEPH HOOKER,
Major- General, Commanding.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
WRashington City, December 3, 1864.
Major LUDINGTON,
Lexington :
Your plan approved.*
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
NASHVILLE, December 4, 1864-10 p. m.
Maj. Gen. H. W. HALLECK,
Washington, D. C. :
Last night the'enemy planted a battery on the river at Bell's Land-
ing and succeeded in capturing two boats on their way down. As
soon as it was reported, at my request, Commander Fitch, U. S. Navy,
went down with an iron-clad and two or three gun-boats and soon drove
the battery away, recapturing the two steamers. He will make a
reconnaissance in force down the river to-morrow. The enemy remains
in the same position to-day as yesterday. I have also heard from Tul-
lahoma, via Knoxville, to-day; the railroad is uninjured that far, and
no signs of the enemy in that neighborhood; I have heard no firing in
the direction of Murfreesborough, and therefore infer that the enemy has
made no move in that direction yet, but is now turning his attention to
crossing the river below; for any such attempt I am prepared to meet.
GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Nashville, December 4, 1864.
Bvt. Brig. Gen. E. D. TOWNSEND:
Major-General Schofield informs me that Major-General Stoneman
has, by order of the Secretary of War, been relieved from duty in the
Department of the Ohio. I respectfully request that the order may be
countermanded, as General Schofield has no other general officer to
whom he can intrust the affairs of East Tennessee with as much safety
as General Stoneman.
GEO. H. THOMAS.
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding.
* See November 29, Part I, p. 1165.
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United States. War Department. 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., book, 1895; Washington D.C.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142229/m1/57/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.