The weekly union record., 1864-12-24
News Of the Week.


On The night Of the 18th, Hood withdrew his
army iu front Of Nashville to Z strong position
called the Graasy White Hills, where General
Thomas army On the following moruing at
tackled the rebels. 4 desperate battle easued.
resulting il the rout Of tie rebels, and their
precipitate retreat. correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Gazs.te says: Had rot uight in
iervened, the rebel army would have been de-
s;Tcyed. Theappearaace Of the battlefield vas
horrible in the extreme. The rain vas falling
rapidly. Camp eqaipage. torn and iroddeu in
tie mud, was mingled with shattered artillery
wheels and fragments Of exploded cannons.
The results of the battle were Eve thousand
prisoners, thirty guns and seven thoasaad snail
arms" The Times special dispatch from
Nashville. dated 10Th, says: Thomas IS pur
saing the euemy 10 Duck river. We have
nearly all Hood artillery. All the rivers are
high. and The bridges in front Of Hood are de
s,royed. We have captured mae thousand
prisoners, includiug hree thousand wounded at
Franklin. and f5Gr Major Generals. Hood bad
siSiy-dve guns. fifty four Of which we now have.
The euemy's killed ard wounded are about the
same as OUT own, which will not reach thirty
FIVE hu~lrel. Forrest gave Murfreesooro an
other trial on The 18th. and was repulsed by
Rousseau and Milroy. The rebel Gen. Johuson
says their loss at Franklin vas FIVE thousand.
while ours was nineteen hundred. Stoneman
Las. whipped Breckinridge in East Tennessee,
near the Virginia line, killing. wouuGiug and
capturing a large number. and taking most Of
his artillery. Gen. Ed. NcCook is after Lyons
in Kentucky, and be cannot escape. Marfrees
boro, Bridgeport, Stevenson, Chattanooga and
Nashville are all right" \ Nashville dispatch
OF Dee 20th says; "An officer Of Gen Rous
scans staff, just from the headquarters Of Gen.
Thomas, arrived last night. Our forces were
then at Spring Hill aud near Columbia
Hoods army (the remnant Of III was at Duck
river which be was crossing as fast as possible.
All their wounded left at Franklin were cap
tured, including Gen. Qlarles, Of Tennessee.
Yesterday morning. Gen. Hatch captured three
guns from rebel cavalry force at Spring Hill.
Oar total capture Of artillery amounts to sixty
enc pieces The loss Of Forrest, in his attack
en- Murfroesboro, On Thursday last, is estimated
at SOC killed and wounded which fell into
our hands. The rebel army, from all accounts,
has become utterly dcmoralized ard unable to
make a staad. The telegraph is working to
Spring Hill. Trains will run to Franklin this
Gen. Schofeld was 10 Columbia
yesterday morning. Oar total wounded in the
battles Of Thursday and Friday will reach but
a few over 2.O00."
The correspondent of the Herald, writing
from Fort McA lister and Hilton Head. Dee
18th, says; when Sherman arrived in front
of Savannah after having marched three hun
dred miles, his troops meanwhile living on the
very best Of provisions, be had with him a
drove Of twelve hun5red cattle, though lie
started from Atlanta with only two hundred
head. He gathered up on the way over seven
thousand able bodied negroes, aud so many
horses, mules and Wagons as to embarrass him
His army, during considerable portion Of the
march, extended over sweep Of country sixty
miles in breadth, as much as four miles. at
times, intervening between the right wing Of
one column ana the lett of the other, but com
was at all times kept up between
the two. His whole loss in mea from the time
Of leaving Atlanta to his arrival in front of
5avannab-iFom wounds, sickness, capture,
5ushwhackiug, aad all other causcs-was only
about a thousand. The average daily march
was about twelve miles" The same cores
pondent gives the following account Of the
capture Of Fort McAIlisrer: AT 4:30 4. N.
On December l4.h, General Hazen placed his
division n position, with another division Of the
Fifteenth Corps in support. The order was
given, when his gallant division marched at the
ioube quick forward, penetrated the abattis
surrounding the work, plunged through the
j ch, sealed the parapets of the fort, ten feet
a - = Ht' - q 44itI 4IiO lle Nu.h GUGcT q not
ire which. while it cut down many, failed TO
2heck our advance, and the work was ours.
Most Of the garrison, bewiderei by the sudden
'woop Of our veterans, surrendered in haste.
Others stood by the guns and fought until they
we're cut down. Not over three minutes elapsed
after our veterans leaned the parapet TIL their
cheers announced that the work was done to
The eager troops stretched arouod the doomed
city. Oar captures were two hundred prisoners,
twenty heavy gans and a large quantity Of
ordnance and subsistence supplies, besides an
open port through which Sherman can draw
bis supplies" 4 letter from Admiral Dahlgren
to Secretary Welles says that be was then (ou
The l4tb) in presence Of General Sherman, the
General having come around to Warsaw Sound
with General Foster TO meet Dahlgreu. The
Admiral was busy buoying the Savannah river
or az attack on Savannah by water, aud was
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