Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-09
TELEGRAP HE.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF
THE BATTLE AT MURFREES-
BORO, TENN. tfa'.'a a'
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List Of Killed and Wounded.
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The Rebel Stuart uses our Tele-
graph in order to effect his
s.in escape. aHlo ..
Negro Procession in Norfolk, Va,
VIA on New Years day.
|VICKSBURG OURS!
.-sFJ 600 Lttpse Hi H ot-
IL res.U = ~ : q ...s. zs .sit.
FIVE DAYS HARD FIGHTING.
10 GUNS and 700 Prisoners
Taken. eris.He .a
..a.a. g. "H
The Enemy's Retreat Cut OF.
Encouraging from Upper Ar
kansas. .e -.a.. b..
Rebel Army Destitute and Dis
banding. @ a.
Disaster at Cape Hatteras---The
Monitor FOundered---4O Men
Drowned. -....
10 GUNS and 700 Prisoners
Taken. tis.ae B.
The Enemy's Retreat Cut OF.
Encouraging from Upper Ar
...rha. Kansas. s.f -.....
Rebel Army Destitute and Dis.
a. banding. a a
Disaster at Cape Hatteras---Th'
Monitor FOundered---4O Men
Drowned. ....
additional to Murfroesboro Fight

K1LLED.-Capt Garrett, 10Th Illinois Col.
Carpenter, 18th Wisconsin; Lieut.. Col.
Mckee, 10th Wisconsin. a-' ...-.
WouNDED.-Brig. Gen. Kirk, of Illinois,
Brig Gen. Wood, of Indiana and Brig. Gen.
Vancleve, of Minnesota; Col. Cassole, Of
Ohio; Maj. Gen. Rosseau Lieut.. Col. Berry,
ofthe 9TH Kentucky; Maj. Slemmer, of the
10Th Regulars; Maj. King, Of the 10Th Reg
ulars, and many others. .r..,
The 2lst, 25th and 35th Illinois lost two
thirds, and the 25th and SSth Ohio one-hali
Of their number. The 1O1st Ohio lost l25
men, and the 3sth India ma the same numbe.
The total loss in killed and wounded is es-
timated at $500.
The rebel loss exceeds ours. Gen. J. E
Rains, killed Gen. Cheatam wounded and
taken prisoner. We have captured 500 pris-
| oners.
| The fight was renewed at three o'clock
in the forenoon on the LIST. Canonading
was heard at Nashville at ten in the fore
| noon.
Wood and Vancleves' Divisions were in
Murfreesboro driving the enemy who was in
full retreat.
Three hundred prisoners arrived at Nash
vile at six in the afternoon of the LIST, inclu-
ding Major j. j. Franklin of the 30th Arkan-
sas; Capt w. E. johnson, I'd Arkansas; Capt
J. H. Eagle, do Capt. s. G. Stone, LIST Tenn
essee, cavalry. @ -
Many buildings have been taken for hos
pltal purposes. g
Great numbers of wounded are being
brought in now. n..
The river has fallen eighteen inches on the
shoals.
louisville, Jan. 2.
The report that $4,000 rebels crossed the
Cumberland last Monday and were moving
towards Louisville, is discredited at head
quarters.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2.
The Washington Star says the recent raid
of the rebel Stuart caused his telegraph ope-
rators to intercept Union messages at Burk's
Station, thus learning more or less concern
ing efforts to intercept him, and of the read
mess of our forces at Fairfax Station and
Fairfax Court House to give him warm re-
ception should he venture to visit those places.
lie also sent various messages over the wires
-one to Fairfax Station, purporting to order
from Washington the instant destruction of
considerable quantity Of army stores accu-
| INFLATED there Among the messages found
in the office at Burk's Station, having been
sent over the wires by his order, was the fol-
lowing: -.
BURK' STATION, Dec. 24-3 P. NJ.
To @. NJ. Gen. MEIGs, Washington.
In future you will please furnish better
mules. Those you have furnished recently
are very inferior. j. E. B. STUART,
Maj Gen. G. S. A.
s...,, . .t., ,,f5- FIT. MONROE, Jan. l.
In Norfolk, last evening, owing to a mis-
construction of an order issued for different
purpose, about two hundred persons were
arrested while returning from places of amuse-
ment .as ..4aC3 i.- lHe
Considerable excitement was created in
Norfolk, to-day, by negro celebration. Con-
trabands collected together, and, with their
Marshals, formed procession of at least four
thousand negroes, of all kinds and colors,
headed by bands of music, drums and flies,
and paraded through the principal streets of
the city. They carried several Union flags,
and, sheered loudly for the downfall of African
slavery. 10 esy -ag
,sf New YORK, Jan. 3.
The steamer Ocean Queen, from Aspinwall,
Oath has arrived. She has q large number
of passengers and 81 100000 in treasure.
The 71abune's special from Nashville, list,
gives the following list of killed: - 59
Col. Stearn, 1O1st Ohio; Lieut.. Col. McKie,
Tooth Wisconsin CD; Col. Almond, 21st I'LL
nois; Col. Roberts, 42d Illinois; Capt. Oscar
F. Mark, Acting Inspector General on Gen.
Thomas staff, severely wounded; Captain
Douglass, 18th regulars. al a' -
,.,i@3 '=e.ar Holly SPRINGS, Jan. 2.
To Major General Halleck: 4ff ';- "i-tH
Gen. Sullivan succeeded in getting fight
out of Col. Forrest and whipped him badly,
capturing six pieces of artillery, and great
many horses and prisoners.
Van Dorm was repulsed at every point, and
with heavy loss. -uf3h' r IN 2ef52a
ne. [Signed1 4 f,goao u. S. GRANT.
d, q. few e. .a5 CINCINNATI, Jan. Q. 81
Major Isaac N. Cook, Paymaster, was ar
rested for defalcation to the amount of half
million Of dollars. Most of the money was
lost in gambling. Simultaneous arrests of
gamblers have been made in Cincinnati, Cairo,
Louisville and Chicago. About SIC, 900 have
been recovered at Cairo.
...{ .... BUFFALO, Jan. 8.
One hundred guns were fred here in hon
or Of the Emancipation Proclamation; also, |
in Pittsburg, Albany, and other cities. 'ef91
ss e7s 80 s9a q .@ CHICAGO, Jan. g.
A dispatch from Cairo states the telegraph |
is working to Holly Springs and Corinth. ID |
!; In the fight with Forrest, the rebel Colonel
Napier was killed, and Col. De Shay captured.
-. sa-.f =. - CAIRO, Jan. g..
John Frederick, of the 18th Indiana, at
Helena, furnishes the. Associated Press the
following news: : a.as,, dsas az y5a3ss ;.
A detachment under Capt Cayen, Of the
l1th Indiana, conveyed BY the gunboat Con- !