Show THE 71 IN TENNESSEE TENNESS E W we e s seldom 0 1 ido kimn kran havo room for war news much moret detail than thau it is furnished by telegraphy as matter of interest to many the fo flowing ri lowing Is selected from correspondence of the new york temes times 1 qt y huntsville ala january ath althou although h I 1 have fur furnished dished the readers of the times full and as has been proved reliable information concerning hoods campaign and the battles batties fought in an tennessee in winding up I 1 deem it proper to 91 give e a brief retrospective view of tho drama fr omits n first inception t hood it will be remembered left macon early last fall 2 veteran troops for the express purpose of cutting tin shermans Sher mans communications and forcing him to evacuate ati atlanta ahta he made his ills first appearance in our rear upon the railroad between big shanty and the atlanta range here frenchs franchs Frenc hs division of stewarts stewards corps was whipped and driven off after it had succeeded in tearing up a few miles of the track however general sherman sll bli erman withdrew from atlanta all of his forces exee exec except pt tile the twentieth corps and went in pursuit urquit of hood by this time hood aias had made his appearance before resaca but could not either bully or fight the federal commander out of this stronghold at dalton he succeeded in tearing up four miles of track and in capturing eight hundred colored troops this is all the damage damage damase tile the rebel commander did to the federal communication in georgia by this time general sherman was pressing the enemy close in lookout valley and schofield was batchin watching wat chin him at ringgold our advance skirmished with the rebel rear and hood rushed his army believing t that sherman was at ills his heels post lia iia haste st e through northern ala aia alabama lma ha hardly rd 1 stopping until he arrived at florence portions of his army even crossed the river and went as far as corinth here hood discovered that no pursuit had been made and later the fact that sherman had gone back to atlanta became apparent in due time shermans Sher mans projected campaign through georgia became known and find the chagrined hood to redeem himself commenced his tennessee campaign the history of this campaign is fresh in the minds of the public how he was reinforced b by y portions of dick taylors forces and forresta For rests cavalry and ilow how he marched upon franklin with men and was whipped by and how he was subsequently whipped routed and almost annihilated by y general thomas in front of nashville are events of th the tho 0 day the campaign has ended hood has managed to escape with about men and twelve pieces of artillery at my y last letter was dated at spring hill tennessee As I 1 have been an eye wit ness of the whole affair I 1 will make its lii ili story complete by transmitting you tile the intelligence of what has transpired since the uit THE OF THE CAMPAIGN on the night of the ish uit hood and most of his ills infantry struck pulaski in the meantime general thomas had hardly been out of the saddle and ills his fatigued army had seen no rest for three days and three nights so enthusiastic were they over til the results of the two days battle in front of nashville and so anxious were wore they to finish the thing up with the annihilation of the army that had so long confronted and opposed them to annihilate hoods army would have been a magnificent thin thing to be sure and the feasibility of sueh such a performance fo for mance manee ance was canvassed to a lively degree dec doc C but the elements were again arl clr cen certainly tinly from tile the to the it rained incessantly and all operations were performed in a sea of mud had this not been the case the rebel army of tennessee would have long ago ceased to exist As it is hoods hooda army still boasts of an organization and is composed of men of excellent fighting qualities on the general thomas headquarters wasat was at columbia his ills infantry at pulaski having with some difficulty crossed richland creek and our cavalry advance had entered Lawrenc lawrenceburg eburg about forty miles to the northwest after leaving columbia cheath cheathams ams corps moved directly south for a distance of some twenty miles carrying the belief that hood was striking for decatur but lee and stewart moved their fragmentary column the mount piea plea sont and roads the whole rebel rear being protected by forresta For rests cavalry the extreme rear guard composed of raddys command being maneuvered by general forrest himself this was the fifth day of and our troops were still buoyed u up with the hope of bagging the one legaz legged chief and his army armo a y on account of the muddy state tt of the e roads made still more furious by the use of the rebels in their retreat it was next to impossible to move our artillery and trains lean ican not well describe the scene the reader must picture to himself one vast avalanche of mud in which the army floundered the cavalry tip up to their horses bellies the infantry up to above their knees while the only glimpse one could get of the artillery was an occasional view of the guns and the tops of the wheels for miles all that was vis ible ibie of the wagon trains were the canvas tops the general reader may think this an idle story or an exaggerated re rated sketch but upon my fily honor as a man and an eyewitness eye witness these things are true I 1 saw a company of artillery at work nearly two extricating a twelve pound napoleon they would not have abandoned it quicker than they would have forsaken their fathers and mothers the equipage was stalled 1 the horses were worn out iut and it required r the entire strength of the company to urge their pet screech owl t along besides Bei bel cles cannonading canno could bo b c eard heard h at at the front and they wanted to ha have ve a hand in all this time asi as I 1 have stated in a special dispatch hood was making his way toward the tennessee river upon their roads portions PoTt lons ions of his ills wag wagon c and ambulance train could be see seen n all along the lawrene Lawrenc lawrenceburg eburg road while here and there might be seen cast aside and forever forsaken the truthful serviceable vi cannon which upon mandoc many occasions ca have hurled death and destruction into the ranks of father abrahams patriots but we struggled on and the dismal stormy morning of the finds the tile victorious but dirty and hungry army of thomas south of pulaski headquarters were pitched in town toyn and tile the infantry took a half days rest the greater portion of the cavalry being engaged in harassing the disordered columns of the fleeing enemy general steadman n oil on the had really cut loose from the main body of thomas army and struck out for a point i nt midway between decatur and arid gu huntsville utiville if hood had our right of infantry with nearly all of wilsons wilsona Wil wll sons sona cavalry on his flank oil on this day frank cheatham very suddenly left the old decatur road and threw his corps on tile the lawrenceburg Lawrenc eburg road and subsequently moved upon the lexington road which lies between the two highways hi h above mentioned it being the direct communication with bainbridge and browns ferry up to the headquarters remained at pulaski and operations were very slow siow despite all our efforts the runaways gained upon us and on tile the evening of this day a portion of lees leea corps under command of general steadman te adman had llad crossed the river at browns ferry this is just nine miles above florence and seven miles above the foot of muscle shoals the retreat of hood and his selection of this place for crossing his army is the thip only proof we have that he possessed an atom of sagacity had he attempted to cross his army at Flo elo florence florenee fence rence our gunboats gun boats would have materially interfered with his designs steadman this day struck near and crossed the river at decatur and passed rapidly toward florence hood hoo had spanned the river with three pontoons pon although he used but one owing to the fact that one was swept away and another rendered unserviceable from its incompleteness early on the morning of the the last of the remains of hoods almost ruined columns crossed the river steadman when last heard from was near courtland ala with the main body of his command while a portion of his forces were at tuscumbia cumbia and south florence steadman sent word today to day that hood was moving rapidly down tile the ringi and brownville roads and that forresta For rests cavalry had wholly y disa disappeared speared ip eared this latter item in garito to forrest is conclusive that hood deemed what was left of his infanta infantry y safe I 1 almost forgot to mention that on the and general wilson crowded the enemy uncomfortably close bringing about several engagements in consequence on the he be had a fierce encounter with general roddy and at one time there were sixteen thousand cavalry engaged the contest lasted about an hour when the rebels suddenly wheeled around leaving two guns over killed and wounded and prisoners in our hands we lost about killed and wounded it is a curious fact that in my figures given heretofore regarding the tile respective losses in the battle in front ville I 1 made the federal loss too large and the rebel loss too small I 1 together all the official facts and figures I 1 could and the folloN fol foi loving ving table is accurate enough to depend upon I 1 put down sixty eight piece artillery afif ty six were uen men taken in battle and the balance were abandoned cannon which of course came into our possession 7 there are still thirty pieces of artillery some where on this side of the tile tennessee hood car ear carnedith came with piece ploce sand left with less than one tenth of that mount amount it is believed that he buried or drowned if the reader in looking care oare are rully fully over these thead figures and they are aro r e nearly henrly accurate will get got an idea of what lia lla haa has q been done dono inthis campa jig n the reader will also be likely to find out who george eorge H thomas is the man who never lost a battle FEDERAL LOSS killed and wounded before th the battie battle of kaled franklin pL about bout I 1 loo killed and wounded at the battie battle 0 franklin offic official ialY laly 2100 i killed and wounded at the batt te e or oy nashville december and 2900 2500 killed and wounded since the tiie itan a about 1000 total killed and wounded Bl issing missing before the battle of Frunk frinklin lin about soo missing at the battle of franklin official soo missing in the tha battle battie of nashville Bl issing missing since nane none total missing total killed and wounded total missing soo SOD total As is well understood wo we iosi lost no cannon or wagons coming out oui of the campaign pain laign r with all of our paraphernalia of war as corri complete piete as when we entered it no general officer was injured except stanley and bradley both slightly stanley in the neck and bradle bradie yin in the arm general Roi rol rosseau seau lost over a hundred men in his battle near M murfreesboro which swells our losses to strong now glance at the REBEL LOSS Kille killed dand and ana wounded 7 before the battle of I 1 franklin about killed and wounded at the e battie battle of frankiin franklin prank ll killed and wounded at ni killed and wounded in battles of nashville V ille ilie 2500 killed and wounded since battle of nashville ash 1000 total killed and wounded prisoners taken before the battle battie ot t franklin official IDO loo prisoners taken at battle of ol franklin official SG prisoners taken at nashville first days fight omm off official leial 2002 2003 prisoners taken second days w prisoners taken since 2000 total prisoners s boners provost marshal goo goodwins win s loo books ks show an official roll of names but this does not include the last batch captured 1 by wilson near browns ferry total killed and wounded total prisoners ersS Prison erse ai total rebel loss losa total federal loss losa total excess of rebel loss losa colonel parkhurst has administered tile the oath and sent to nashville nine fihe hundred odd deserters hundreds arg are coming in and hundreds of men belonging to this section of Alaba alabama mai mal northern mississippi and tennessee have escaped to their homes hood conscript a thousand men in all and they tiley all got t away from him the total loss of tta the e rebels in this campaign will not fall a man short of there were two rebel generals wounded at the battle of nashville whose names I 1 have not mentioned before lee and buford swelling the list as follows rebel general officers killed 6 rebel general officers wounded 1 8 3 rebel general officer captured 5 total 19 at it murfreesboro 2 cannon captured in first days night fight at nash ville vl lle ile J 18 18 cannon captured in second days fight at nash ville JM 11 cannon captured since battie battlo of nashville during action 5 total captured in battle battie 56 abandoned by the enemy in their retreat and sent to the rear 12 total 63 I 1 wish to state once more that the battle of nashville was a magnificent afraid everything every eveny thing worked like machinery all parts part of the federal line moved according to orders the performance of which reminded one of the utting putting together of a dovetailed dove tailed bi box 0 x general beneral thomas got hood right wh where ere lie he wanted him and then put ills his hands upon him that good old soldier A J smith I 1 arrived just in time with his veteran troops he entered nashville from the north just as schofield and stanley entered it by the south general thomas after fourteen days incessant work most of which time wag was as occupied in organizing and strengthening his cavalry force on the morning of tile the ultimo arranged his soldiers all in a row and moved upon hoods works without even pro proposing to do so the results are consolidate consolidated in the figures above MEETINGS were held lately at BO new york and philadelphia V t measures for sending supplies ilc lic sun suh ering cring citizens of savall savail i were especially lacking V P and flour at boston tb addressed by edward P F ua uary ry a fund fundo 0 rl raised seq in lla that city w |