The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-02-05
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.

We are indebted to Mr.. John Haney for |
Nashville papers of the 18th ult., and to
Mr.. Ksrcheval for a Bowling Green Courier
Of the 2sth.
These papers generally acknowledge with |
frankness the completeness of their defeat
at the battle of Fishing Cresl, as they term |
it. Their army seems to have scattered in |
all directions, some Of the troops actually |
reaching Nashville under whip and spur
So far from making a stand at Monticello,
Zollieoffers brigade didn't stop running |
until it reached Livingston, about seventy
five miles from the field of battle, and in
the direction Of Nashville. The troops
were in pitiable condition, exhausted by
their terrible retreat, and almost dead with
hunger. The people in the surrounding
country were engaged in bringing provis-
ions into town fer the relief of the half
starved and worse frightened soldiers. A
portion of the rebel army ran in the direc-
ton of Knoxville, some of them having
reached that point. OF course various rea-
sons are assigned for the defeat, among
others that General Crittenden was drunk.
The Nashville Gazette has slashing arti-
Gle on the 'Sin of Drunkenness" pointedIy
applying IFS comments directly to General
Crittenden. 1t says of that officer
But for the depIorable fact that General
Crittenden, Of Kentucky, who is, we regret
to say, generally regarded as a common
drunkRrd, had been made the superior in
command of the lamented ZoIlicoffer. the
devoted hearts of Southern patriots might
not to-day be lacersted and overwhelmed
with grief almost indispensable We firm
ly believe that the Investigations to be made
Of the causes leading to- this great disaster
to our arms will disclose the fact that Gen.
Crittenden was at the time of the action
in an almost beastly state of intoxica-
ton and has been so, almost necessarily,
since the commencement of his connection
with the Confederate Army. We shall feel
some little astonishment il this investigation
does not also connect with. Orittenden's
crime OF drunkenness, the greater sins of
treason, treachery and cowardice.
Some of McNairy's battalion cavalry, }
who had arrived in Nashville, excused them
selves from the charge of cowardice by
stating that they came under orders ofCapt.
Harris, who directed them to report at
Nashville on the 9th of February.
The fatality among the officers of the
rebel regiments was even greater than we
were at first led to believe. Maj. Henry N
R. Fogg, Aid-de-Camp to Zollicofer, was
wounded in the battle-it was supposed
slightly-but has since died. His remains
had reached Nashville. Lieut.. c. B. Shields,
another member of the rebel Generals staff,
is said to have been killed by his side In ad-
dition to these are the names of Capt Dodson
of the Hermitage Guards, Lieut.. Peyton Of
the Hickory Guards, Sergeant Gray of the
Sewanee Rifles, and Lieut.-CoI. Carter.
Among the wounded we notice the names
of several Colonies.
The Nashville Patriot in speaking of the
battle says;
We have no heart, at this writing, to
speak becomingly of the gallant Zollicoffer,
and those from this vicinity, who, on this
occasion, have offered up their lives upon
the altar of their country. The gloom
which hung like pail over the CITY yester
day, told painfully of the public sense of the
loss.
Al Carthage, Springfield Belmont and
Somerset, the rebel troops have had oppor-
tunities of testing the metal of the Union
volunteers from the Northwest. They are
likely to hear from them again at several
points in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Nashville Patriot contains a long
card from Ben Mccullough, addressed to
the Richmond Wing, In which be roundly
abuses Gen. Price, accusing him of robbing
the Louisiana and Arkansas soldiers of their
Springfield, in which the Louisiana reg
iment (so Ben says) took Sigers battery al
the point of the bayonet.
The following dispatch, which appears in
she Bowling Green Courier of the 2stb,
pretty effectually settles the question that
negroes are to be found in the rebel army
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 27-The anuiver-
sary of the secession of Louisiana was cele.
brated to-day The military turned Out IN
full force and there was a grand review OF
the troops. There were ten thousand.
armed and equipped, ready 20 take the Geld,
among whom were one thousand free col
ored soldiers.
The same paper contains the following
paragraph, claiming TO speak authorize
lively:
We have already intimated the proba-
bility of Beauregard being assigned 10 the
chief command at Columbus, end We are
now enabled to state authoritatively that
such is the fact This announcement Will
cause thrill of delight and enthusiasm
throughout the South. Under the lead Of