, 1863-01-03


BATTERY I, I'd Rcg't, Capt. BazEet.... ........
LIST OF wIsCoE81N REGIMENTS.
We are able to give less complete list Of
Wisconsin regiments with Rosecrans:
1st rcgimcnt-Col. stqrkweather, now command
cd by Lieut.. Col. Bingham :'
18th 1esinent-col nIi4 Heg, tscandlnartan regi-
=; RI fdSSS 5sSiRsnseoi. Sweet, et 4tsnt
Z: I'd neSi1 resiment-co,. uI.1ev
~ !ss!ment-coi. Is:rabet.
9Th Wisconsin 6atteiy-capt, Pinaey.
I MICHIGAN REGIMENTS.
| We are furnished with the following as the
Michigan troops in Nashville before the move
ment commenced: 9TH Michigan cavalry; 9th,
10th, 11tll, 14th and 2lst infantry.
wHT THERE WAS no MOVEMENT.
Cur great army found itself in CITY fresh
from bcleasucrment, and stripped Of supplies.
It's own stores were, sufficient for no more
| than few days.
4 movement of the Federal army is shcerly
impossible until regular supplies eau be guar
anteed. This was impracticable while the
1a1iroad was cut in twain. Tie river was ut
too lo:T stage for transports 10 ascend.
The process Of accumulating, stores
was slow process. Meanwhile, Rosccrans
went at work to purify his army. He sum-.
lnarily dismissed a hrge number Of officers
for drunkenness and disobedience Of orders,
a very stringent general order was issued
touching soldiers who surrender themselves
that they. may be paroled and sent home.
Gen. Rosecrnns determined. to send a1l such
to Camp Chase, Ohio with n1ghtcaps on tlcir
heads, after exhibiting; them ignominiously
on dress parade.
OF THE REBEL FORCE
The rebel army had been gathering ut Muir
freesboro for some months for the PURPOSE of
covering the removal: Of supplies South the
collection Of Bragg's raid northward. They
were even then threatening: Nashville when
Buell's head fell, and Bragg; indeed boasting-
y ordered John Morgan to report to him at
Nashville. Murfreesboro is.thirty.two miles
south Of Nashville, on the Nashville and Chat
tanooga railroad, On the eth Of November,
Breckinridge was there with 10000 men,
joined few days later by:Cheatham from
Tullnhoma, (thirty-nine miles further south
on the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad)
with Il, 900 men, making an available force of
81, coo at that point. The rebel outposts were
pushed daringly up toward Nashville. On
the 18th of December the rebel main army was
still at Murfreesboro Buckncr's force is at
Nolinsrille and Triune; Kirby Smith at Man.
chester, and Johnston at Chattanooga.
The rebel military ccntrd was abont the
time above named the recipient of JEFF: Davis |
presence, and lelda series ofbrilliantrsyiexs,
This head tr.itor declared in3a speech on h.
urday night, 18th December, that Ten, p ]
must be held at all hazards.7 PQlkf
rebels made violent speeches. )
On til. 10Th Of December Kirby smlff: VAS
reported moving towards Lebanon. The
whole force Of rebels In Tennessee was csti-
mated at 10000. The rebel outposts were
then about eleven miles from Nashville.
Among the many rebel Generals at MUIR
freesboro, for some time past, is Gen. Joe
Johnston, who established his Headquarters
there. This officer did not supersede Bragg,
as las been asserted. Johnston COM
mands the Department Of the Southwest, and
included in his force arc the armies Of Price,
n.Dor11, Bragg, Holmes and Pembcrton.
The position held by him is the same as that
held By Gen. a: Sidney Johnston before shi-
lob, and the same to which Beauregard fell
heir to when Johnston fell at Shiloh. He is
said to be concentrating 4 large force at Muir
frecsboro, and that not only is Braggs army
in Tennessee but that of Price also. It was
boldly asserted that grand effort was to be
made to take Nashville and drive Rosecrans
to Kentucky, and perhaps beyond.
PREPARATIONS FOR a FEDERAL MOVEMENT,
| Rosecrans was still busy in collecting his
supplies. The country was swept by orr
foraging parties, and large amounts came for
ward by railroad as soon as it was in order.
The guerilla operations northward embarras-
sed, endangered, and finally Interrupted our
communications by railroad in the seizure Of
Elizabcthtown and burning Of the htul-
draugh's Hill trestlc.work by Morgan. Our
army had been pushing out from the city.
On the Goth Of December the right wing ad-
yanccd to the 1unatic asylum, six miles from
the city, towards Murfrcesboro, where John
c. Breckinridgc, with 10000 men, is posted,
waiting for our boys to advance that he might
run away.
RosEcRANs BEGINS HIS MARCH.
HEADQuAnTERs 147u ARMY ConPs.
DEC =, vA LOUISVILLE, Dec. 81.
Order6 10 advance on the enemy were given
Christmas Eve, but were countermanded be-
fore morning On the morning Of Friday the
2Gth, our entire force WAS IN motion from
Nashville. sweeping down the Wilson, Nolins-
vile and Murfrees6oro pixies,
OPERATIONS OF FRIDAY 2GrH.
During the day, Col Carlin's brigade Of Gen.
| JEFF. c. Davis division, McCook's corps, Ind
| some lively skir1nishing, and the 101st Ohio
galIantly charged and captured one gun and a
caiseon from Georgia battery. We lost
| only two killed and three or four wounded
| The enemy were driven back at all points,
and at dark we occupied Nolinsyille and La
ycrgne, and Thomas corps moved down the
+! Franklin and Wilson pixies, and all interme-
diate points; McCook's corps down the No
| ]insyiile pike, and Crittenden's down the
Murfreesboro pike, two brieadcs marching
| to the left on the jefferson pike.
! Gen. Rosccrans moved from Nashville, down
| the Murfrecsboro pike at half past Il o'clock
a. H., and passed to McCook' front, his head
I quarters being established on the Murfrees-
boro pike, twelve miles from Nashville.
WHAT WAS DONE on SATURDAY, 27TH.
Gen: MeCook WIS directed to press Har-
Gees two divisions at Triune on Saturday,
and orders were issued to move up along the
~hole road. The enemy's pickets were soon
4et az various points, and there vas sharp
shl!ms11ng all day long Hardec fell back
rapidly before McCcoI'5. eager advance, tbe
anderson cavalry distinguishing themse1yes
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