Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-01-15
BATTLE AT mURFREEsBoRO.
The Three Days Fight--Thursday
Friday and Saturday. Great Bra
very Of our Troops Glorious Vie-
tory to the Federal Arms. GsHm
From the Cincinnati Gazette, 5llL ]
~ THuRsDAY's BATTLE.

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| Z; @,.. THURSDAYS BATTLE .at
! On Thursday morning, the sun rose
through mass of thick mist and fog. and
just as he made his appearance the picketS
of the enemy opened brisk FIRE upon
Palmer's division. which constituted the
right wing of General Crittenden's COM
mand. A few Of our men were wounded,
and our pckets manifested some disposi-
ton to give way, Two batteries. howev-
er. novel mp to their, support. and the
cannonade was so brisk that the whole of
our forces rushed to arms. expecting an
! immediate renewal of the fight on grand
scale; but the rebels did not seem disposed
to make the fight general; they brought
out a battery or two which attempted TO re-
ply to ours. but which were silenced
completely in five or six minutes from the
time they commenced to fire.. Their pick
cts were also driven back and several pris-
oners taken, and the sound of battle, ex-
cept the occasional dropping of musketry.
again ceased. Capt. Bradley's battery,
9th Indiana and the 9Th Indiana battery,
COMMANDED by Lieut.. Estepp, were main
ly instrumental in repulsing this attack
From this time till half past one p m,
there was no fighting, with the exception
of occasional skirmishes between the
pickcts.
At the time last mentioned, an attack
was male upon our right. where Dan.
McCook's command had been mustered
together after the repulse of Wednesday
His men, anxious to redeem their charac-
ter, lay close behind some temporary
breastwolks Of Stone and logs, until the
rebels were within a few hundred yards of
them. Then they opened. and the butter
nuts retiied in confusion to the cedar
thickets in which they had been concealed
all the morning of Thursday, leaving a
number of their dead and wounded in an
intervening field On the centre Of our
left. where a part of Gen. Sheridan's divis-
ion was posted, brisk firing was kept up
between the pickets until near night. when
the rebels becoming bold, once more ad-
vaneed in considerable force into an open
field. This time our men no longer remain
ed behind their brcastworks, but charged
upon the enemy and put them 10 dis
graceful fight. a single company Of the
9th Illinois capturing l50 prisoners A
number of shells from some of our Bate
ries quieted the rebels for the remainder of
the evening. The fighting on Thursday
was at no time on a large scale, amount
ing really to little more than heavy skir-
mishing. Both armies seemed inclined to
rest after the dreadful contest of the day
before. The weather was cold and clear
part of the day, but during the night
there was an ugly. drizzling rain. from
which our soldiers. without shelter OF any
kind, suffered severely. ''' 'sr'-
FRIDAYS OPERATIONS. s
There was nothing of Importance oc-
curing Thursday night. scarcely shot
from either side was heard on Friday
morning until nearly nine o'clock. Then
a terrible cannonade commenced and ragged
for half an hour ali along the center of our
line The enemy's shot and shell flew
thick and fast up the railroad and turn
pike, and all over the open ground occu-
pied by the center of our army. One oil
our batteries was moved to the front and
had more than halft the horses killed and
disabled by the rebel fire; but it soon
bee me evident that the enemy's artillery
was inferior to our own and after Loomis
had knocked to pieces rebel battery Of
large brass guns, which was situated near
the turnpike, directly in front of Murfrees
boro, the others hastily drew off, and there
was again lull in the storm. Our los.
in this artillery duel was about one hun
dred killed and wounded. From the re
ports of rebel prisoners, am led to be-
ieve that the enemy's loss was very con
Siderable There was nothing more than
heavy skirmislling from this until 4
o'clock P. m. '.s.'ae +" PSF "a
SATURDAYS ENGAGEMENT.
BownsG. GREEN, KY, Jan. 4.
returned last night TO Nashville. from
the battlefield of Murfree sboro, and, afte1
tedious ride on the cars, during which
was engaged in writing out these dispatch
es, arrived late this evening at this place
| say left the field. but not. thank God
until was able to report glorious sue
cess for the arms of the Union, The op
/ erations up to one O'clock yesterday hac
been conducted on scale of almost un
PARALLEL grandeur, almost equaling th,
sublimcst military occurrences during TIT
days Of Napoleon. The battle Of Wednes
day displayed in most striking manner
the valor of our troops, the carnestness o
our officers, and the genius Of Geu Rose
, Grams; but the result. on the whole, seemed
to be against MS, and there was a. genera
feeling of dependency throughout ou
snny On Thursday there was little dis
position on either side 10 renew the bat
} tie, and this feeling continued until th
cannonade of Friday morning. the resul
Of which did much to encourage and in
: spire our soldiers and make them ready
for the great event that took place in tn,
/ afternoon of that day. Gen Van Cleve'
7 division, belonging to Gen. Crittenden'
1corps, had been thrown across Stone Riv
: err on Thursday, in anticipation Of an as
sault upon our left. similar to that upor
the right on Wednesday. or for purpos,
which it is not now. perhaps prudent t.
intimate. 1t was posted on low emf
nence, overlooking Murfreesboro, and, il
this situatioH formed. as indeed it hsd
: done before, the extreme left wing of our
army. 1t was about o'clock in tn,
evening. when no one anticipated q renew
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