Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-01-07
Roseerans in FuII Possession Of AIurfrees-
borol.


bore.
A Mumfords7ille dispatch to the Gin
cinnati Gazette says that there is no
longer any doubt about MurfreesbOro' be-
ing in our possession. A Union officer
who left the town at 10 o'clock Tuesday
night, says it was then occupied by the
National forces.
After our brilliant victory of Friday
evening, there was but little more musket-
ry fighting. Notwithstanding the rain,
our troops spent all day Saturday and part
Of Sunday in throwing up intrenchments,
gradually getting nearer the town, and
cannOnading as they approached, un-
til at last they were enabled to throw shot
and shell into the very heart of the place.
The rebels Immediately commenced to
evacuate. Our men pushed on and cap
tured an entire brigade of the enemy.
1t was eleven o'clock on Sunday when
General Rosecrans entered the place, and
our triumph is signal and complete.
The victory has been dearly bought.
., 500 Of our heroes are in MurfreesborO
wounded. According to the average pro-
portion there are LOCO dead on the field.
We have duties to perform toward the
wounded It would be an everlasting re-
proach if every effort within our power
were not instantly made for their relief
Most fortunately the Cumberland River is
at good stage, and steamers, with the
necessary supplies, may be dispatched to
Nashville without delay.
THE BATTLE OF mURFRKEsBORO.
The Fighting of Thursday, Friday and
SaturdHy---BrRve Chnrses and TERRIBLE
t4sffiahfTy Of kOsecrans.
In consequence of an accident which Oc-
CURED at this Office on Monday evening
one whole page having been apied"-we
were unable to give to our readers yester-
day the details of the battles of Murfrees-
boro'
In Mondays LEADER was an account of
the preliminary fighting Of Wednesday,
and the morning of Thursday. Below will
be found important and graphic reports
Of the terrific fighting and dreadful slaugh-
ter of Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
from the correspondence of the Cincinnati
Gazette. 1t will be read with intensest
interest:
NASHVILLE, Via. BOwLISs GREEN, Jan. 4.
az send you herewith a list of officers
killed and wounded in the great battle of
Wednesday last, which is complete for
nearly all the regiments named. The es-
timated loss for some of the regiments, es-
peeially for those in Johnson's division,
will, I think ultimately be found too
large. The division was so scattered that
it was, at the time the estimate was made,
almost impossible to tell who had been
killed who wounded, who was prisoner,
and who had run away. In these regi-
ments the estimated loss is generally pre-
ceded by the word about Where the word
does not occur the losses are almost exact
ly as I stated them.
Thursdays BATTLE.
HOn Thursday morning the sun rose
through q mass Of thick mist and fog, and
Just as he made his appearance the pickets
Of the enemy opened brisk fire upon Pal
mer's division, which constituted the right
wing Of General Crittenden's command
A few Of our men were wounded, and our
pickets manifested some disposition to
give way. Two batteries, however, moved
up to their support and the cannOnade
was so brisk that the whole of our forces
rushed to arms, expecting an immediate
renewal Of tho battlo on a grand scale
but the rebels did not seem disposed to
make the fight general; they brought out
a battery or two which attempted to reply
TO ours, but which were silenced completely
in i've or six minutes from the time they
commenced to fire. Their pickets were
also driven back and several prisoners
taken, and the sounds Of battle, except the
occasional dropping of musketry again
ceased. Captain Bradley's battery, Sixth
Indiana and the Eighth Indiana battery,
commanded by Lieutenant Estepp, were
mainly instrumental in repulsing this at
tack. From this time until half-past enc
in the afternoon there was no fighting
with the exception Of occasional skirmish-
es between the pickets.
At the time last mentioned an attack
was made upon our right where Dan. Nc
Cooks command had been mustered to-
gether after the repulse Of Wednesday,
His men, anxious to redeem their charac-
ter, lay close behind some temporary
breastworks Of stone and logs, until the |
rebels were within few hundred yards |
of them. Then they opened, and the but
ternuts retired in confusion to the cedar |
thickets in which they had been concealed |
all the morning of Thursday, leaving q |
number of their dead and wounded in an |
field. On the center Of our |
left, where a part of General Sheridan's |
division was posted, brisk FIRE was kept |
up between the pickets until near night, /
when the rebels becoming bold, once more |
in considerable force into an |
open field. This time our men no longer
behind their breastworks, but
charged upon the enemy, and put them to
flight, single company of the
twenty seventh Illinois capturing $50 |
prisoners. A number of shells from some
1f our batteries quieted the rebels for the
Of the evening. The fighting
IN Thursday was at no time on a large
scale, amounting really to little more than
leavy skirmishing. Both armies seemed
Inclined to rest after the dreadful contest
# the day before. The weather was cold
md clear part of the day, but during the
aiehE Ihara nAa an nRlv drilling rain
rom which our soldiers, without shelter Of
my kind, suffered severely.
FRIDAx's OPERATIONS.
There was nothing OF Importance occur
ing Thursday night, and scarcely a shot
rom either side was heard Friday morn
ng until nearly 9 o'clock. Then terrible
annOnade commenced and ragged for half
N hour all along the center of our line.
he enemy's shot and shell flew thick and
asst up the railroad and turnpike, and all