Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-01-19
News From G.snsraI EIood

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We know not whether we are justified
in giving credit TO the intelligence pub
lished By Us yesterday, and derived from
a neighboring journal, to the effect that
General Hood had been attacked when in
the net of raising the siege OF Nashville;
and that on the 20th Of December he had
made up for his i'll fortune by defeating
the enemy severely at Columbia. I've say
we knox not whether this report is cnti;
tied to entire crecit; but tbe sutsiane3
Of il corresponds 50 geil With what we
bad previously conceived TO be toe true
state of the case that we cannot avoid at
tributinK TO IL certain d gree of proba
bitity nd least. Had General Hood been
80 badly bFaten on the 18th of December
az to compel retreat So rapid and disor-
DERBY that it eutai,eh loss Of ten th0us-
and rrisonnrs, in addition to The killed
and wounded, it is impossible that be
| should have been, on the>~I9th, only -
/ miles from the Geld Of battle. Ills army
would, by that time, either have been
many miles further OF, or 1t wpald havs
been ensirrly dispeFsed, especially when
We take into consideration the Yankee
statement that Thomas i'>sl OILY 5000
men in the late battle itself, and that
| Hood lost double that number, besides
/ roo prisoners that the immense snhse.
Iquens captures wera II csast staeHee ct The
| total rout sustained by Hood; and that
| his whole force previously 10 the action
was but 81, 900. Silt further is it i'm
possible that an army thus badly routed,
and losing thus enormously, should have
been able 10 hold together SO tenaciously
as to be found, at the end Of one week
from the destructive battle, only 1 | miles
from the field, while the, enerny Was not
nearer than Is Eiiles 10 the rear, From
the same Yankee papers we are hearing
every day of preparations made TO pre-.
rent this routed and disorggniked army
from crossing the Tennessee, thereby as.
siguiug TO il vitality which most assur.
Il edly il will not possess had il ever suffer.
ed as severely as she Yankees pretend II
has. TIE annihilatian of loud, indeed
seems 10 resemble that oil Early, last fall.
| 1t is quite consistent with bis stiii cln
Itinuing to bold bis ground, and to present
as stern and defiant an attitude as ever
Thcse facts no noticed some days ago,
and We venlured to suggest as the tins
that when The truth eame TO be known,
through tho repoFs of General Hood him.
fae!f, fran other srustgorthY sources, i
would be found that the panic into which
!, ear psople had been thrown by the Van
kee reports vas greatly. dispEoportioned
! to the actaal facts OF the case. CORES
: poading 80 we'll, as the intelligence il
! question, does, with our own preconceis,
; cd Fiews Of ihs matter, we cannot bu
placs certain degree Of reliance upon it
! II, on tie Goth Of December, there wa
; another battle ID which Hood obtained !
J signal victory, and captared one who'll
{ Yankee brigade and if, shout ths sam
2 time, Forrest captured another entire brig
! ade, wish train OF GOO wagons, We cal
{ easily account for what would no alto
: geshcr unaccountabis upon the supposi
{ ton that tbs EaEkees cell The truth
9 fuamciy. the tardiness Of their pursuit.
] Ii Ii Absolutely impossible that aa arm
Q wbieh had routed another army, take
7 from Ii 300 prisoners on the hell OF bat
3 Ito and IL, 900 gaors in the ThEsaiss sho'
!. 1t he end OF sen days, fad itself still !
! miles from THAI routed and disarg snlae
. agmys hasiag pursued as the rasa OF nv
= saigea day. But. II. in she iusaTyaa, CD
: garsuipg array bad itselg met wllhta &c
III surs reverse. the whole thing ID insasligi
bic snouxh. We think il piaia eusug
= = shas oar people had allowed shesnselss
ID 70 givs way 60 panic much too easily
= that shxra IL 40 real csase far aiayra vii
. regard 10 the safety ef Haod's army %
!. that ahers IL far less for the aespoaisnes
Y appssashing despaiss whish has eesn
Iosew sae snsais ia asany who AreInoI wus
"a Be sisAss siespondsases dospesate. On
-lpeonie sHass uoann ons ef shEs cloud
z They muss, - bsEsre, bend up Nil The
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