The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-01-13
A Rebel Account of Hoods Cam
paign.
paAgn.
The Rebels not Believed to Rave
been Totally Annihilased.
From the Richmond v hlg. Dec. 30.

ago tudt ulspdlCucS bdu oeSu ICoSi'Su az
the War Office troIa Gen. Hood, yet, from
their not having been diyulged, we are
bound to conclude that the rumOr was
false. We can, at least, zee no earthly
reason why they should no5 be published
had they been actually received. No color
that they could put upon the operations of
Gen. Hood could be glo0mier than that
with which the public Imagination, wrought
at one time to pitch of uncomfortable in
tensity, has already invested him. Our
only source Of information continues to be
the dispatches and letters from the Yankee
commander in Tennessee, and the cores,
pondents of the newspapers who are with
the army. From these alone have we
hitherto received any intelligence from
the neighbOrhood of Nashville, to these
alone are we indebted for all We know with
regard to the position of Hood, and to
the accounts they transmit to the Yankee
journals, is alone due the dependency
which had at one time settled down upon
the public mind like dark shadow, but
which is now gradually dispensing before
the light of hope and reflection. 1t NAV
not be amiss, while in this state of uncer-
tainty, to inquire into the probabilities
connected with these Yankee reports,
which have had such powerful effect on
the spirits of our people.
The utterly mendacious character of the
Yankee nation has long since grown into
a proverb. l. is known, not only to US
who are placed in the best situation to
judge, but to Europe and the, world at
large. To lie like bulletin was once
popular saying. To lie like Yankee is
saying Of even wider application but lie
at once like bulletin and like a Yankee
is to full the fullest measure of mendacity.
OF necessity Yankee bulletin must be
the perfection of lying and it is to Yankee
bulletins we have been trusting all this
time for news from General Hood. Well
as we know their character we have suf-
fered their bulletins to throw us into
spasms of apprehensiOns, never once sus-
pecting falsehood or even exggeration,
where, from former experience, we had
no right to expect anything else. We have
observed this disposition in our people
more than once since this war began.
Dispising the Yankees as the most consul
mate liars, that ingenious people have but
to invent any tale, no matter how incredi-
BILE, IN order to insure belief. But few
weeks ago they told the most monstrous
lies about Prices expedition. We know
now that they were lies, but we suffered
them to throw us into an agony OF doubt.
Last summer and fall, while their Presi-
dental canvass was in progress, their
telegraph teemed with victories, most of
them as ideal as the land of Utopia, and
yet we gave some faith to them, until the
progress of time demonstrated their false
hood. Now, again, We are in paroxysm
with quite as much cause, and possibly
no more.
We have not, nor have we ever had,
very high opinion of Gen. Hoods talents,
though he is brave and deserving SOL
der. But upon careful study and COM
parlson OF the enemy's own statements,
we have come to the conclusion not only
that he has not been annihilated, as thew
pretend, but that he has, in fact, sustained
no irreparable disaster. The Yankees, as
liars are always apt to do, prove too much.
If Hood had been so disastrously de-
feated he would have lost more than eight
hundred prisoners in the battle, and would
have retreated more than TWENTY-FIVE
miles in the first two days, and more than
nineteen in the three succeeding. If he
had lost ten thousand men it would have
been from pursuit much more rapid than
that Of Thomas, who, five days after the
battle, had only advanced twenty-six
miles in pursuit. If he had lost twenty
thousand men in all, out of thirty-five
thousand, as the Yankees say, he would
not have made stand forty-one miles
from the field of battle. If he had lost 5s
cannon, still less would he have made a
stand. If his army was disorganized after
losing so large a portion of it, it would
have disbanded, which they do not pretend
that it has done. The whole statement is
genuine Yankee, made up of lies and blus-
tiers designed for the latitude of New
York, manufactured for the draft market.
We suspect the truth to be that Hood.
finding be could not take Nashville, de-
signed to draw off; that in attempting to
do so he was attacked that drawn bat
tie was fought On the 18th; that Hood
slowly retired, and that Thomas did not
dare to follow him so closely as to bring
on general engagement.
We strongly suspect that this is about
the extent of Hoods disaster. He has al
ready been Joined by Forrest, and the
very name of Forrest is a tower of
strength. Hoods army is not destroyed,
as Yankeedom would have us believe.
Let our people, therefore, lift up their