The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-11-14
FROM KENTUCKY.
General Rosecrans' Army en-
Route for Nashville.
FAREWELL ORDER OF GEN.
BUELL..
Special dispatch to the Chicago Times

BUELL..
Special dispatch to the Chicago Times.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. "A correspondent
at Bowling Green, writing October 31st,
says there was great activity among the
troops there.
At 9 O'Clock on Saturday morning, Gen.
Sill's division of General Rosecrans' army
commenced passing Bowling Green, for
Nashville.
The division comprises First Michigan
Engineers and Mechanics, First Ohio, parts
of Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Nineteenth
Regulars, consolidated, Fifteenth Ken
lucky, Louisville Legion, Seventy seventh
Pennsylvania Thirty fourth Illinois, Thir-
teenth Indiana, Seventy ninth Illinois,
Forty ninth Ohio, Fifteenth Ohio, Thirty
second Indiana, and three batteries-all
veterans
OF the two tunnels, on the Nashville
Railroad north Of Gallatin, only one orig
inally was destroyed by the rebels 1t is
reported to-day that the other tunnel was
destroyed day or two since and the track
torn up in the vicinity for long distance.
Private travel hence to Nashville, which
has not been much interrupted by gueril-
las heretofore, is now interdicted by the
rebels.
Travellers who left Bowling Green on
Saturday in carriages were turned back.
Morgan's band, on their passage to Ten
nessee, a few days ago, destroyed the
Whippowill bridge.
Beyond Russellville, on the Memphis
branch, the railroad bridge had been de-
stroyed before and repaired.
The mountain regions of Kentucky were
desolated by the rebel army in its passage
from Lexington to Cumberland Gap.
Hundreds of families are arriving in the
Bluegrass region in a starving condition,
seeking homes anywhere. Meetings are
to be held in various counties in the State
for the relief of the sufferers.
Two hundred and fifty more refugees
from East Tennessee arrived at Lexington
on yesterday, without clothing or subsis-
tence, having been driven away by Bragg's
army after its retreat into Tennessee.
Bragg had terrible march over the
mountains in Kentucky on his retreat
Snow fell to the depth Of ten inches, which
his thinly clad soldiers were forced to
march through. Much suffering and many
deaths ensued from hardships and expo
sure.
The Journal tomorrow will contain the
following final orders from Gen. Buell.:
Headquarters ARMY OF THE OHIo,l
=" LOUISVILLE, KY, October so. 5
General Orders No. 49,
&C In obedience to orders from the head
quarters of the army, Major General Buell.
relinquishes the command of the District
and Army of the Ohio to Major General
W. S. Rosecrans. 1t is impossible for the
General, without feelings of regard and
warm interest in their future success, to
part with troops whom he has been the in
strument of converting, for the most part,
from raw levies into powerful army.
HOnored by common consent for it's dis
cipline and efficient organization, for it's
esprit du corps and for victories unquali-
fed by a single reverse, and whose for
tunes he has followed for twelvemonth
over field of operations embracing con-
siderable portions of four States, through
difficulties and dangers which it's fortitude
and courage have mastered, without acct
dent or failure, it has recently, by rapid
march of some five hundred miles, with
limited subsistence, and often with an in
adequate supply of water, returned to Ken
lucky, and driven from her borders power
full army and, having established its COM
munications, is now well on it's way to meet
the enemy at other points.
The occasion is not convenient for re-
counting it's services during the past twelve
months, but the army may safely recur to
them with pride. If anything has not
been accomplished which was practicable
within the sphere of its duty, the General
cheerfully holds himself responsible for the
failure. The General reflects with pride
that the army under his command has, for
the most part, been free from petty ieal-
ousies and intrigue that it has neither in
dulged in vain boastings nor furnished it's
high character by chickering's and low Grim
nations 1t will enhance his qualification,
if it shall carry to it's new commander,
who already has earned its confidence and
respect by distinguished service, the same
noble qualities which have characterized it
since its organization. He will pray that
it may be the instrument of speedily re-
storing the Union to it's integrity, and
there is no individual in it's ranks in whose
honor and welfare he will not feel q spe-
cial interest
BY command of Maj Gen. Buell..
(Signed) JAMES B. FRYE,
Colonel and Chief of Staff.
Official:
j. w. WRIGHT, A. A. G.