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e. The Federal advance was beaten and punished day by day so thoroughly that General Thomas was forced to admit that the rear guard was undaunted and firm, and did its work bravely to the last. The rear guard recrossed the Tennessee on the 27th of December, Ector's brigade under Col. D. Coleman, Thirty-ninth North Carolina, in the rear. General Forrest, in his report of the campaign, said that from the 21st of November to the 27th of December his command was engaged every day with the enemy27th of December his command was engaged every day with the enemy. I brought out three pieces of artillery (taken from the enemy), more than I started with. My command captured and destroyed 16 blockhouses and stockades, 20 bridges, 4 locomotives, 100 cars, 10 miles of railroad, and have turned over to the provost-marshal 1,600 prisoners, besides the capture of several hundred horses, mules and cattle. In an address to his troops issued by Forrest on his return to Corinth, Miss., he said: During the past year (1864) you have fought 50 battles, killed and