The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-04-23


On the 2d inst our cavalry made an
importantly Reconnaissance on the Shreve-
port road. Moving out about fourteen
miles, our advance encountered the
enemy, Under Green, in considerable
force The rebel cavalry attempted to
fight in the slow and skirmishing style,
bat the Fourteenth New York Cavalry,
which led our column, did not favor
these tactics On the contrary, they
drew saber and charged, and the in
slant the enemy saw the flash Of steel
they broke and ran. We here captured
eighteen prisoners, and about the same
number Of horses and arms.
Our advance rushed on and chased
the enemy about six miles to the fork,
where the road to the right leads to
Pleasant Hill and on the lett to Nanny
Here wS found the mounted troops
Of Green in force, with three pieces Of
artillery, and from the manner in which
their.shid shot flew, ! am Of the opin-
ION that they had a pretty accurate
range Of the road Colonel Lucas.
commanding the lst Brigade of Lees
Division, Immediately brought up a
section Of the 5th United States artiI-
lsry which silcnced the enemy in short
order Two Of our regiments then
pressed down The right hand road and
Two down the left, and drove the enemy
steGdiiy till darkness came on. On
these two roads the 9th Missouri cavalry.
under Capt Breeze, the % Illinois
cavalry, under Major Marsh; and the
18th Indiana, Lieut-Col Redfeld,
distinguished themselves by their dash
and vigor
TAa enemy retired in good order and
we succeeded IN capturing but 81 few
more prisoners. Our advance, however.
reached q point within seven miles Of
Pleasant Hill, where Dick Taylors
headquarters arc, or have been, and
obtained the iniOrmation-whi we de
sired, Of the location and forces Of the
enemy
The rebels are making desperate ef
forts to collect o force to stay our march
to Shreveport and Upper Texas The
divisions Of Walker and Morton are
now at Pleasant Hill Green, who IS
probably the best fighter the enemy
have west Of the Mississippi, has come
on from Texas with at least seven regi-
mou.s Of pretty fir cavalry Price has
probably arrived at or near Shreveport
with his force. Nagruder has sent from
Houston ell he can spare. IN all, |
tlHa.- tHe rebels viii muster, between
'Hl~ point 0,i Shreveport, about twenty
1-e.s.as la-tutFy and five thousand
cavalry
Na.a G,ere Is some good fighting
material il. this force, There is mucn
iEl.l,i.uae Oh disahect.on Since we
is't Sew iberia we have captured IN all
a,aa. 300 prisoners, and l h8y. seen
,a-nv ~ them who were not At al SORRY
To DE- taken. one member Of o Texan
Ies meEt, whom we captured in the re-
coIUaIssance ! have described, on he
. brought iu stated that he was born
In Indiana
How did you come to be IN a Texas
Iee.m,ut1
" Pressed in.
Why didn YOU runaway before you
were ooa- glpte8
"Irlyj ~ bat they caughtme. They
hunted nae wigl GoEs, sir. When was
pl- into The ranks told them ] would
do .ly common duly, but that would
never i-tls q Union soldier Before
was taken today was sent out To skir-
m'-' ca the l,lt. and ] know where
every lail / fred -uuck-iu the trees.
strand al. sho W--le tle Itth Indiana
boys, born iu1gy oHgn State. were firing
81. us Ike L.iL Three OF their bullet,
came SO near Ile, chat 7 thought each
ame uas 10 bca dead man But now
! taona lhe Lord I'm al right You
couldn't give us little coffee, could
You
1..s browning has immortal a
similar .ncid sns in verse, bar ! DO not
think Aer young Italian, forced into the I.
Austrian service, was any more OF he (
30 Sham the homely Hoosler who PLAYED .
bis part so wen a 'Crumps Corner.
day before yesterday.
The gunboats have passed Up the
river TO fnd the rebel rams, Of which
We have heard so much
the bulk u the army VIII move. on F.
Shreveport by land and few days must
determine the result Of ths campaign
in this State