Show WAR MOVEMENTS IN TENNESSEE the confederates up to latest dates were according to reports committing depredations in weste western rn tennessee particularly alon aion along the mississippi river where they seem to be in iny considerable for force ce on the night of sunday dic die a large guerrilla force under col henderson is reported to have made a raid into memphis causing consid rae excitement the next evening a meeting of citizens was held to devise mans mang m ans of defense such was the strength of the confederate forces and the threatening attitude of affairs in the vicinity of island no 10 that gen davi davis commanding t at Co cloumbus umbus sent borers or erb era to the officer closer in command oe of the fortifications on an the island inland to spike the cannon destroy the ammunition and stores and evacuate evi cuate the place the order was not ewt obeyed and a second order was sent by an officer belonging to gen nav DAV IS staff stait sho nabo was specially charged to see that it was waa carried out to the letter sixty nine cannon were accordingly sp ked ten thi thousand usand rounds cf of ammunition thrown into the river and the post evacuated new madrid on the missouri side was also evacuated by the federal troops stationed tere there these movements cawed car can ed much excitement CL cit emen ement and were deemed most extras extraordinary adi 1 and unnecessary by the officers and mer met garrisoning the fort who are said to have against the execution of the order toe tue confederates who ulio hae We been operating in western tennessee are commanded ded jed by gen forest and their inva invasion siaa of that part of the state is said to have been bite quite m elome eloma to most of the people who entertained the troops hospitably and furnished them with horses clothing provisions and whatever was necessary for cleir comfort and subal subsistence ls tence and for the accod accomplishment lish ment nent of their designs notwithstanding withstanding 0 the orders that had bad been beed previously issued all traffic with th thi enemy oi the of december gen Rose erans with the entire federal force stationed a nashville consisting as r parted ported of forty five thousand effective men with one hundred pieces of artillery marched from that talat place tor for or murfreesboro where tile the enemy had hae assembled in great forca force with detachment nd divisions divi inions thrown forward to within i short distance of nashville Skirmish skirmishing ine lne with tha the enemy commer commet co iced soon scon ater thu thi th federal broo troops ps were in motion and was kept up as reported during the day the federal army marched by several dif dlf different lerent routes and each encountered the enemas advance corps and drove them back towar towards do M boro bore during the day in the course of which the federal army marched kwelty ty miles various movements and skirmish ings are r reported to have transpired during saturday sunday monday and tuesday the confederate as it ell as ther ederae generals maneu maheu maneuvering er sn an ag as to fight each other as advantageously ag as possible and on wednesday dec a great battle was or rather lather coin com deuced meu ceil as it had bad not ended at the date of the last report from the battit field which 1 I was on stone river a short abort distarce distance from murtress j boro bore in the first stages of the sight fight the ene my seems to have gained some advant advantage age but afterward the tide of battle is represented to have been in favor of the federal arms the particulars of the sanguinary con conflict filet so far as made known are not very explicit more afore of the details of the battle will of course be received in a few days it was unquestionably one cf of the fiercest engagements which has liaa as yet been fought in the fratricidal idal war |