Try and communicate with me by scouts and spies from the time you reach Pontotoc.

Avoid any large force of infantry, leaving them to me.

We have talked over this matter so much that the above covers all points not provided for in my published orders of to-day.

I am, etc., W.T.SHERMAN, Mayor-General, commanding.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, January 27, 1864.
Brigadier-General J.P.HATCH, in charge of Cavalry Bureau, St.
Louis, Missouri.
SIR: Your favor of the 21st inst.

is just received.