The National tribune., 1906-05-31
ARMY OF THE
CUMBERLAND.
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dering and discordant. The troops were
surprised. and then miserably handled.
and IN a little over an hour were forced
to surrender with loss of 150 killed
and wounded. while Morgan reported
his loss at 125 killed and wounded.
jefferson Davis promptly recognizSd
| this achievement of John II. Morgaa
| by making him Brigadier-Generdi.
| Gen. Hardee tried to have him made a
Majo General. but this was little loo
much for Davis.
Morgan celebrated his good fortune
by getting married. and the wedding
| was a great event. Gen. LeonidaS Polk
resumed his Episcopal canonicals long
| enough to perform the ceremonies, ara
the wedding was attended by "PresI-
/ dent Davis, Gen. Bragg and all tie
high officers OF the army.
| Morgau's reputation so increased that
/ he soon had under his command seven
4 regiments. numbering about 1900 men.
Y whom he divided into two brigades.
| giving one to his brother-in-law, Col.
Basil w. Duke. and the other to Sol.
i W. C. P. Breckenridge, later menh'r
OF Congress from Kentucky for many
years.
4 Morgan New RaIdS.
! With this great increase OF force
| Morgan started upon much more seri-
Gus work than he had been attempting.
He had Braggs orders to destroy the
4 railroad between Nashville and Louis
Vile, in the hopes OF forcing the re-
treat of the Union army. The Union
troops were. on the other hand. getting
more used to Morgan's tactics. and re-
! fusing to be as readily stainpeded. In
trying to reach the railroad Morgan
on Nov. "a struck battalion of Michi-
officers In the most unexpected way.
Three days later Morgan suffered loss
of 80 killed and wounded III attacking
Col Hobson near MunfOrdSville. At
Bacon Creek a stockade had been erect
ed to guard the bridge. held by 100
men. Morgan attacked promptly and
vigorously. using his heavy artillery.
but the garrison beat off a number OF
his attacks and could have repulsed
them all had their commanding officer
remained firm. He. however after re-
fuSing number of times to surrender,
2 at last yielded. when Morgan came up
and offered him very liberal terms.
Morgan burned the bridge across Bacon
Creek. and then at Nolin. captured
: Elizabethtown after a sharp fight with
Lieut.-Col. Smith. in which the latter,
with 500 men, defended himself for six
hours against Morgan's entire forces
until the artillery got such an exact
range that the place was no longer ten
i able. Morgan succeeded In burning
1 the great trestle-works at Muldraugh's
Hill.
AT Rolling Fork of Salt River
Morgan was attacked by Col. Harlan
c and driven to Bardstown. and there
= Col. Hoskins attacked him. capturing
$50 of his men. whereupon Morgan
q having accomplished In the way of de-
1 struction to the railroads all that Bragg
had expected of him, made a rapid re-
: treat to escape the forces convergins
I upon him.
l Bragg at Murfreesboro.
Gen. Bragg had taken up position at
a little interior Tennessee town. hereto
fore little known, but thenceforth TO
nave sanguinary significance in Amer
c ican history. The earlier settlers In
n Tennessee had selected for the state
Capital the pretty little seat of Ruther-
FORD County, on Stone River, and the
State Government had been located
= there from 1911 to 1927, when the su-
a perior advantages of Nashville caused 1t
to be transferred to the banks of the
v Cumberland. Murfreesboro was a consid-
: cradle town, for the South, having about
n 5000 inhabitants. and being the center of
: rich farming region. Several excellent
e pixies radiated from it. and it was on
s the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad.
4 81 miles from Nashville. L was sub
! | stantially built, most of the houses be-
g ing of brick and stone. The BaptistS
maintained there the Union University,
i having 800 students. and the Eaton Fe-
# male College. The Methodists had the
Soule Female College. with $50 students
IL and there were two Baptist, one Metho-
: dist. one Christian and two Presbyterian
. churches. There was also a military
S school and two weekly newspapers.
!. The country is rolling. and the under
s lying limestone frequently crops to the
W. toll 3snNn Il
$ Murfreesbore. Where the soil is thin
: there are dense thfckets of cedar.
l. Bragg's bold advance had been quite
y welcome to Rosecrans. The objective
% of the Army of the Cumberland from
Q the first had been Chattanooga and
= Rosecrans was more than willing to
Is fight the decisive battle for that place
as near as possible to Nashville.
IL Bragg had disposed of his forces in
a very threatening manner, as if to at
tack Nashville He had with him at
Murfreesboro Folks Corps and three
brigades of Breckinridge's Division of
II Hardee's Corps. Hardee. with the re-
- mainder of his corps, Cheatham's Divi-
It sion. and one of Breckinridge's bri-
gades. had been pushed out on the left
Is about 20 miles. to Eagleyille. to, hold
, the pike from Nashville to Shelbyville.
n On the right was McCown's Division OF
n Kirby Smiths Corps, which took up po-
sition at Readyville, about IL miles east
of MurfreesbOro.
Hardee, keeping up the show of ag-
= gression, sent forward strong detach-
ment, nearly a division, to occupy No
lensville and Triune, with his pickets
we'll pushed out toward Nashville and
icl an outpost at Lavergne.
n In his report after the battle Bragg
= said he had about $4,000 combatanis.' "
In Gen. Rosecrans's report after the
II battle he says:
ID I'VE have prisoners from 1872 regi-
ments of infantry Consultations count
ed as one). averaging from those in Gen.
Bushrod Johnson's Division All each,
say. for certain, $50 men each, which
IS will give
1872 regiments of infantry. say,
81 $50 men each ..---.-. 46,200
let IL battalions of sharpsnOoters,
,al say, 110 men each. ..... 1900
% batteries of artillery. say, 80
., men each ............. 1.s4O
IL 20 regiments of cavalry. say,
all 400 men each. and
ri "A organizations of cavalry,
say, 20 men each. ...... 1880
go 62,490"
IS The Army of the Cumberland.
- After leaving sufficient guards for the