The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-11-20
The War in Tenne.see.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commerce.

Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial
BOLIVAR Tenn, Nov. 4, 1862.
Three days ago Bolivar was the adj
vance post of this department OF the
army of the Mississippi, and an attack
bv General Prices army was looked
for. All fears Of offensive demmon>
STATIONS by the confederates were
dispelled on the I'd, and an advance
bv our forces was commenced on the
sd. Our lines already extend to with
n a few miles of Grand Junction, and
the cry is still forward and southwark.
Price has left Holly Springs-so
report says-and is retreating South
ward. 1t is impossible, Of course, to
predict what the rebel programewill be
but it is fair to presume that the col
umn will not stop this side Of Grenada
and it is not probable that they will
make any very decided stand until
they reach Jackson, Mississippi. Gre
NADIA is about ninety miles from this
place, and Jackson about SO. The
junction OF the Mississippi central and
Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad is
at Grenada. The Mississippi Central
runs to Jackson, where it joins another
road running east from Nicksburg.
At Grand Junction Gen. Grants army
can be supplied by railroad from
Memphis, a distance of tifty-one miles.
IF Price continues his march as far as
Jackson without fighting, he will, Of
course, destroy the railroad in his rear
to as great an extent as possible, and
it will undoubtedly be Gen. Grants
policy to proceed no faster than he can
rebuild and repair the road. Rolling
stock can be supplied at any time from
Columbus.
General Grants men are in high
spirits to know that this long season of
inactivity hasIpassed, and that they are
once more in pursuit Of the enemy.
They seem to have great deal of
confidence in their leader, and in their
own ability to defeat the confederates.
Reinforcements have been arriving for
few days, but in what numbers depo-
nent saith not. Price is said to have
been strongly reinforced withina week
put if so much more effective than he
was at Corinth and Hatchie, why a.
bandou the sacred soil in such short
order? Time only can solve the mys>
terry.
Major Kicker, in command the I'd
battalion OF the 9Th Ohio cavalry, has
just returned from Lagrange, a point
three miles west of Granb junction,
on the Memphis and Charleston rail
road, to which he was dispatched a
few days ago in charge Of q flag of
truce in reference to the exchange of
prisoners. He found the rebel pickets
near Lagrange, and delivered to them
a number Of rebel prisoners taken at
Corinth and Hatchie. He received a
note from General Van Dorm, dated at
Holly Springs. He learned from citi~
zenS in the vicinity Of Lagrange that
the rebels had not left Holly Springs,
but were there in force, estimated at
3d. coo They have two regiments at
Davis Mills, six miles this side OF
Holly Springs. They are fortifying
about eight miles below Holly Springs.
This would Indicate that Gen. Price,
notwithstanding what he is reported to
have said at Corinth to Beauregard
has some respect for bitches, Major
Kicker does not believe the report that
Price has been reinforced lie cons
versed with many Union citizens
along the road to Lagrange, and they
all agree i'll saying that the rebel army
was no larger than when it attacked
our men at Corinth.