Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-01-13
From the NahgxiIle Union.
DETAILS OF HOODS RETREAT-HIS HEAVY LOSSES
-F0RREST'S AID INVALUABLE TO THE REBELS

-EUhhESl'S AID INVALUABLE ~ iHE nEDEGS
AT point five miles below Pulaski on the
old military road leading To Lambs Ferry,
Forrest took up a strong position with bis cav
airy and eight picked brigades of infantry, on
the 25th. Our advance found him iutrenched
behind works of rails in gap in the noun
tain ridge, running parallel to the Tennessee,
and the position covered by few pieces of ar
tillery- Harrison's brigade approached the
place and threw out thin line OF skirmishers,
which was attacked by the rebels and driven
in on the main line with the loss of one piece
| of artillery. Our forces rallied, and the REQ
els were in turn driven back. That night
| (25th) the rebels withdrew under cover Of dark
ness and marched all night and all the next
day, were overtaken about night by our forces
at Pine Hook, on Bulls Creek. about twenty
miles beyond Pulaski. The roads were very
heavy hence the slowness of the marching
| Here again the rebels had intrenched them
selves, and on our approach, sailed out to the
attack. They were repulscd, but in the tight
we lost two men killed and eighteen wounded
! Again the rebels withdrew in the night, and
| held on their way from that time without ces-
| satIon. Their rear guard crossed the river on
/ the 25th, without molestation and in safety
| Our cavalry had become much fatigued with
constant marching and were, moreover, IN
! want of rations and blankets, 50 that after the
affair at Pine Hook they did not again come
up with the rebels They, however, came so
close upon them that Forrest was compelled
| to abandon on the river bank abOnt one hun
dred and fifty supply wagons.
! Once on the other side OF the river, the reb-
els did not want to fight. A few of the pom
toons they got away, though the greater part
of them were cut loose and foated away down
the river They were in great part mere wood
en- scows, though a few of them which they
had to bridge Duck river were regular pom
! toons
Below Lexington the rebels diverged from
the Lambs Ferry road and struck the river at
Bainbridge, nine miles above Florence, where
the great body of their army passed over. A
few detached companies and stragglers may
have ferried or forded over at Lambs or Cheat
hams Ferry, below Florence, but no consid
erable body of men escaped by those roads.
Forrest defended himself TO the last with
the greatest determination. To him Hood is
indebted for his escape-for every whole COM
pany of men that he has together to-day.
The most reliable estimates give Hood, when
he reached the other SIDE or the river, between
I8 900 and 10000 men. He lost while in the
State, between $1,000 and $4,000.
From Bainbridge he moved off southwest
erly, and is supposed to be at present some
where south of Corinth, on the line of the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad, which he will proba-
bly, make his line of future operations.
As has heretofore been published in our dis
patches, Gen. Steedmau came up with Hoods
pontoon train near Bainbridge, Ala, on the
I'd, and destroyed it, also captured 800 mules,
100 wagons, aud several hundred hogs, which
the rebels were driving off The Nashville
Times says:
Deserters who have arrived at Chattanoo-
ga report that it currently rumored and
believed in the rebel camp that Hood had been
ordered to go to Tuscaloosa, about 115 miles
south of Eastport, and some 20 miles east Of
Mobile & Ohio Railroad to reorganize and
refit bis army. The condition of his command is
appalling to the rebels. Cheathams corps is
fearfully thinned out, the men having been
slaughtered at Franklin and Nashville Many
of the regiments in the various corps exist on
ly in name. Roddy's cavalry is nearly cut to
pieces, and is pretty well played out.