The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-05

TIL gA1TtE ON SATURDAY.
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Lsvsvuls, ~, Jan. 3, issa.
SesUavAie communication b restored Between here
and Nashville
M reported that General AeSs wu kIlsa soday.
rhsrs has been sighting s4ay, but 10 particulars ~
given.
OR forces are Advancing, and The rebels are falling
back across Stone rivy.
Tho following oacvrs ~ wounded siisAuy,-
Colonel Miller
Colonel B1Ach, v. NE Forsissh Indiana
LsatsnAnt CysoDsl NsG
Colonel HuH
Captain Pras.
Colonel IicKss ID reported killed.
nhas yssn raining heavily all daJ Il Ne vicinity 4 NE
ssatls r.sla
Ths'ewas heavy eanscnadiAg to-day until neon, wAe~
" sseh attacked osw sas wing. ~ w~s ssrsak ~
~ -.
INC rebels attacked and desnoysa our hospital building
Son thursday.
The rebels are being strongly reinforced from We rebs
i army u Richmaa. ~
All eontrabsnds captured " shs rsbsh On tAs Union
wagon trains are imsdayy shot, Twenty, thus killed,
are lying on the Murfressooro pike.
Major slsmmsr and Captain King who were being
conveyed away wounded from the battle field in
sulancs, were captured by the rebels taken fsur miles
away and than paroysd and thrown out on the road.
Captain Mack, chief Of artillery, and on General Tho
| mas star, ia lily wounded.
Our forces do Dot yet occupy Aurfrsesboro bat de-
spach from Color M Anderson headquarters here says
We have whp ped the rebels decidedly, and arc at
Chrsiana MIN miles south Of Murrsssboro on the rail-
| road.
The nshp closed last evening with terrible slaughter
OF the snepiJ.
The nrss days fighting was all our own way, but the
right wing Of our army fought itself into bad position
| THE Feeling in washangton.
inten excitement has been manifested here all day
long In reference 70 the condition Of affairs a. Nurfees
ooro. despatch was commenced 70 be received which
would probably have given the result but the wires gave
| out J ,efore it was announced.
~ 10 believed, however, at the War Department thai
Roa scrans has been successful After four days des
per ate lighting this opinion 10 by the fscs
nat be had not called TO his assistance the reserves
Nashville
Sketches Of the killsd, wounasd sas
Captured,
| LIEUTENANT CoLoNkt o. L. sn1PHEhD.
This of1csr graduate Of West Point and has been
ONE twenty-five twenty three years in service Be wss
anave Of this State having bean born Saratoga county
where his principal counestpss sti reside. he was
nephew Of William Shepherd "a, prominent citizen Of
that locality. He received biz appointment 70 the NM
taSy Academy under the immediate patronage Of the
late Governor Marcy, and the recomnendatioa Of the
Hon. John Cramer then and for mapy years membar Of
Congress from the Saratsss district Colonel SHEPPARD
began hs military with the rank Of second heu-
tenant Of infantry In which capacity he served through
the Florida He sabssquently engaged In tho
various campaigns Of The Mexican war. in which be
served under both Taylor and Scott. He Yves q Pnc
Alto and Rssacs do b Palma. In nearly every
struggle which took place while sssst was march.
Ing upon tho Mexican capital Colonel Shepherd
ala tcak part, and promoted step ~ step
vice 10 the field. until at the close q the be held the
rank q bssvst major Since shss tine ~ has been 10
constant and hard service sohiy southssn hstades
on the extreme Indian frontier. For years before
the breaking Of the ressoa As had been stationed
Fort Defiance, New Mexico surrounded BY wild Indian
tribes whom he and others in like command bad 70 keep
paciaed or subdued. AZ time, in aLmpss sssAds
fsrt with only about sse hundred and any n4p ~
bssissed more than two months by ths Navajo Indiana
tribe then numbering Something Aan thousanA
after Fort Sumter ataacged and ~ detection Of
General Twiggswho so0 companAsd the Department Of
Teras-bscsme known, COLONEL Shepherd brought safely
away through fsxas his dsu LDrsads, consisting q
lal.as co.~ hs,ux
o. Fort Hamilton, n The Aarba Of New York. IL was
light task for the other bali b. sads caught and
the nea sent q prisoners Of ITO New Orleans He
then being raised 70 The rank ef eutsoaat colonel,
was ordered 10 Columbus, Ohio, vhsrs, under cssns'
Csrringop be assisted In organizing and putting into The
Geld that sndd new corps OF resa lars, known - shs
Rshtssuth Ohio infantry, and whi 10 ths BATHS -
Nurfrsssboso, 10 said 70 have D ssn about 2.>so
strong II sssas 70 havs bsss usA ~ We ssnnAnA
Of hs Lsutsuass Cosssl during the b IL, 49, 70 jslss
from the brsf end slightly coasussd tsS spAs accounts
he and MAJOR Townsend, Of Albany, wsA ths only ~
ocsrs Of The regiment present. Major 4 ,vnssnd saa
Va Ss wounded, and Lieutenant Colonel hspsssd - b
killed. . sad and sudden tsrmnsssOn\ 70 - long and
active military career. nay graisfA copsssy give
his the remembrance and The honor bS soSasth0y
struggled for He "csrps knisA ~, no mare
ornamental soldier his life been Of ~ hardest
and his service tho sevsrest His friends s ops nas
the report Of bic death may be premature "a = mAs
may turn out that be ID only wounded o. pss per.
. sEErcH or GENERAL w1LLicH.
Byigsdsr General August which, who sllsd a.
Murfrssssors was . resident Of Cincinnati, BID swas o.
German EXTRACTION BE entered the servss q Tho United
States In this present coloosl Of shs Thry
regiment q Indiana volussers First German IA usn-
regiment, and received bis commission such On the
2lth August 1891. The regiment entered the voe
o. The United states during the month Of August ~,
and sent into Kentucky where vas attached 70
49,
ton Of this regiment fought bravery Al Muniordsve
Kentucky during the fret advance u hs Army OF tho