Posted on 02/28/2024 7:01:48 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Friday, Feb. 26.
Arrivals from Vicksburgh confirm the previous reports that Gen. SHERMAN had occupied Selma, Ala.
The reports from Gen. SMITH's cavalry expedition are not so good.
Stragglers who arrived here to-day state that the rebel Generals FORREST, ADAMS, LEE and RODDY, concentrated their forces against those of Gen. SMITH, and forced him back with considerable loss. He had a severe fight at West Point, Mississippi.
The slow movements of Col. WARING's Division, consisting mainly of Pennsylvania and New-Jersey regiments, delayed the expedition some eight days, giving the enemy time to concentrate their forces.
It is reported that SMITH is slowly falling back toward Memphis, but the report is not generally believed, as little credit can be placed in the statements of stragglers.
CINCINNATI, Saturday, Feb. 27.
The Gazette's Tunnel Hill dispatch of the 26th says: on Thursday night our troops fell back to Tunnel Hill, which place will be held. The reconnoissance was entirely successful, and developed the fact that the enemy is in force at Dalton.
CLAIBORNE,s Division which had been dispatched to reinforce POLK, was recalled and got back in time to participate in the fight.
This was one important result accomplished.
Our entire loss was 300.
The rebels suffered more severely.
The Commercial's Huntsville, Ala., dispatch says: Reliable information shows that LONGSTREET is falling back to Atlanta. Part of his force is supposed to have reached there on the 25th.
A large portion of his forces were without shoes, and many nearly naked.
WHEELER had been relieved from the command of the rebel cavalry by BRECKINRIDGE and BUCKNER, who were preparing for a raid into Kentucky.
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Forrest lost his brother, Jeffrey, at Okalona, in the Smith attempt.
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