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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
at from the Yankee newspaper statements, that General Hood achieved a great victory. He says the enemy's loss in killed and wounded was very heavy, being certainly not less than four thousand. We captured, and still hold, five thousand prisoners. Our loss in killed, wounded and prisoners was about thirty-five hundred. Among the killed on our side were Major-General Cleburne and Brigadier-General Govan, of Arkansas, and Brigadier-General Granberry, of Texas. General Hood proposed to Schofield to exchange prisoners, but the latter declined, alleging that he had sent off all the Confederates he had captured. The fact was, he was unwilling, by exchanging, to disclose how very small was the number of prisoners he had taken. It is worthy of remark that the Yankees, having lied about this battle steadily and persistently for a fortnight, now show some disposition to acknowledge the truth. All along they have been swearing that they lost but five hundred men. As will be seen by