Posted on 12/24/2024 6:59:05 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
FRANKLIN, TENN., Thursday, Dec, 22.
The rebel retreat from Franklin to Duck River beggars all description. HOOD told his Corps Commanders to get off the best way they could with their commands. FRANK CHEATHAM told his aunt, Miss PAGE, that HOOD was ordered to Nashville against his own wishes, but he blames HOOD for not attacking SCHOFIELD at Spring Hill. HOOD ordered BATE to attack at Spring Hill, and he didn't do it.
The rebel army is now beyond Columbia. During the rebel tarry in front of Nashville they captured but two locomotives and ten cars. The railroad is but little injured, and trains are running up to Spring Hill, but two small bridges destroyed. Trains were run to Murfreesboro' on Sunday.
Telegraphic communication is all right with all points. But two small trestles are destroyed on the Johnsonville road. Johnsonville itself was not destroyed.
The rebel lose, during the campaign, was 17,000 men, fifty-one cannon captured and eighteen general officers. The killed, at Franklin, numbered 1,400 the wounded 3,800 and 1,000 prisoners were taken.
In the battles before Nashville and retreat to Columbia there were 3,000 killed [and wounded and 8,000 prisoners. The Federal loss in the battle at Franklin was 2,000, before Nashville not 4,000. The total Federal loss will not reach 7,000, with two generals slightly wounded.
HOOD has a pontoon bridge above the shoals on the Tennessee River, where our gunboats can't reach it.
HOOD marched on Franklin with 40,000 men, including cavalry, and 65 pieces of artillery. He lost just half his general officers, and counting in deserters which are coining in and stragglers which are being captured, he will lose nearly half his men. The rout is complete, although his army is not quite annihilated. B.C. TRUMAN.
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Gen. Thomas’ Army: Particulars of Hood’s Defeat and Flight – 2-3
News from Rebel Sources – 3-4
Court-Martial – 4
Porter’s Expedition: A Dispatch from Gen. Bragg to Jeff. Davis – 4
Gen. Grant’s Army: Bad Weather – 4
News from Washington – 4
Pardons by the President – 4
Editorial: The New Draft – A Full and Quick Response – 4-5
Volunteering and the Draft – 5
The Rebel Credit Abroad – 5
Rebels Getting at the Truth – The Chivalry of Sherman’s Army – 5
Seems to have been a very bad day for the Confederacy.
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