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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Representatives. Monday, April 7, 1862. (search)
the day and night was thrown over the river--(a battery had been established below the city to secure the passage) Nashville was incapable of defence from its position, and from the forces advancing from Bowling Green and up the Cumberland. A rear guard was left under Gen. Floyd to secure the stores and provisions, but did not completely effect the object. The people were terrified, and some of the troops were disheartened. The discouragement was spreading, and I ordered the command to Murfreesboro', where I managed, by assembling Crittenden's division and the fugitives from Donelson, to collect an army able to offer battle. The weather was inclement, the floods excessive, and the bridges were washed away, but most of the stores and provisions were saved, and conveyed to new depots. This having been accomplished though with serious loss, in conformity with my original design, I marched southward and crossed the Tennessee at this point, so as to co-operate or unite with General Bea
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
nce, at the foot of the Muscle Shoals and the junction with the Nashville and Florence road where the Rebels have had forces since Donelson; Decatur, near the head of the lower Muscle Shoal, where the greater part of the Donelson and Bowling Green forces are said to have concentrated first after the retreat from Nashville; Huntsville and Beliefontain, at both of which there are said to be small bodies of troops; Stevenson, important as the junction with the railroad from Nashville through Murfreesboro, through which the Rebels retreated; and Chattanooga, a strong and important position. All these points are of Corinth, and all, except the last, are in Alabama. To the west of Corinth the road leads in a tolerably straight line to Memphis, a hundred miles distant, and northwest runs, the road to Jackson, almost in the centre West Tennessee, where rebel fortifications are said to be preparing with great rapidity. Such is the new line of defence for the rebel "army of the Miss