HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, on the Chattahoochee, July 16, 1864.
Major-General SCHOFIELD,
Commanding Army of the Ohio:
GENERAL: I have just heard from General McPherson. He moves in the morning for his position on a Decatur road till abreast of you, his cavalry at or near Buchanan’s. You will therefore move to-morrow to the position described in Special Field Orders, Numbers 35, which will be at the camp-ground you described to me to-day, with an advance down to Nancy’s Creek. This will divert, too, much engaged in crossing at Pace’s. General Garrard has been to Cross Keys and finds nothing on the road but bands of cavalry.
W. T. SHERMAN,
Major-General, Commanding.