Posted on 12/21/2024 7:11:14 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
NASHVILLE, Monday, Dec. 19.
THOMAS is pursuing the enemy to Duck River. We have nearly all HOOD'S artillery, and his army is really fearfully demoralized. All the rivers are high, and all the bridges in HOOD'S front destroyed. Our pontoons are up. We captured three thousand of the enemy's wounded at Franklin, Tenn. Since Thursday, we have captured and brought in just six thousand prisoners, making nine thousand, counting the wounded taken at Franklin. We have captured four Major-Generals, including Gens. JACKSON and JOHNSTON, as well as Brig.-Gens. SMITH and ROGER HOOD had sixty-five pieces of artillery. We have captured fifty-four pieces. The enemy's killed and wounded is a little less than our own. Our entire loss will not reach 3,500.
None of our general officers were injured. This is the handsomest victory of the war.
FORREST gave Murfreesboro another trial, and was repulsed. ROUSSEAU and MILROY drove him from the town.
Our late victory at Franklin was not exaggerated in the least. The rebel Gen. JOHNSTON says that their loss was five thousand in killed and wounded. He states that six rebel Generals were killed and four wounded in that engagement. He saw Maj.-Gen. PAT CLEBURNE's body. He was shot through the heart. The whole rebel loss at Franklin, on the 80th ult., was 6,000. Ours is officially reported at 1,900.
STONEMAN has given BRECKINRIDGE a cleaning out in East Tennessee, near the Virginia line, routing his army, killing, wounding and capturing a large number, and getting most of his artillery.
Gen. ED. MCCOOK is after Gen. LYON in Kentucky, and he cannot escape.
Murfreesboro, Bridgeport, Stevenson, Chattanooga and Knoxville all right.
BENJAMIN C. TRUMAN.
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