Posted on 04/28/2023 5:22:06 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
NASHVILLE, TENN., Monday April, 27.
A part of Gen. GREEN CLAY SMITH's brigade, consisting of 250 cavalry, commanded by Col. WATKINS of the Sixth Kentucky, it is reported, this morning made a dash upon the rebel camp of the First Texas Legion, eight miles South of Franklin, on Carter's Creek Pike, and captured 128 rebels, including three Captains, five Lieutenants, the same number of horses, fifty mules, one ambulance loaded with medical stores, and burned eight wagons and the arms of the rebels. Col. BROOKS, commanding the rebel camp, was captured, but subsequently escaped. The rebels formed a part of Gen. WHITFIELD's brigade. The latter is a Tennesseean, and a native of Franklin, who acquired some notoriety in Kansas a few years since. Five rebels were mortally wounded. There were no casualties on our side. The prisoners arrived here to-night.
Thirty-three hundred citizens, male and female, have taken the oath, giving bond to Gen. MITCHELL.
Capt. C.L.S. MEDILL, of the Twenty-first Illinois, Judge-Advocate in the trial of the Anderson troop, died suddenly to-day, of pneumonia, at the St. Cloud Hotel.
A startling rumor is current to-night that Gen. BRAGG was shot and instantly killed by Gen. BRECKINRIDGE, at Tullahoma, yesterday.
A small party of rebels attacked the Louisville train on its passage from this city to-day. The rebels killed two prisoners. No damage was done to the track.
LOUISVILLE, Monday, April 27.
The Nashville cars arrived three hours behind time. A guard on the cars dispersed the rebels, killing three and wounding three. Three miles north of Franklin, two sick Union soldiers, two passengers and a drummer boy were wounded, the latter probably mortally, and left at Bowling Green.
The military authorities have been arresting, for the past three days, members of an association for promoting the rebel cause
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To the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas
And now I’m going southward, for my heart is full of woe
I’m going back to Georgia, to find my Uncle Joe
You may talk about your Beauregard and sing of Bobby Lee
But the gallant Hood of Texas, he played hell in Tennessee
“current to-night that Gen. BRAGG was shot and instantly killed by Gen. BRECKINRIDGE, at Tullahoma, yesterday.”
Ah, no.
NYT, still the same after all these years.
5.56mm
The fog of war is thick.
I go to the Richmond Despatch for contrast.
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