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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], House of Representatives. Monday, April 7, 1862. (search)
ty 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 Beauregard of the defence of the Valley of the Mississippi. The passage is almost completed
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
Jackson, and Purdy, with the great Memphis and Charleston road. This seems to be the cause of the Rebel operations. Their new line of defence has for its base the Charleston and Memphis road, the preservation of which is absolutely necessary to any pretence of resistance through Northern Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Along this railroad are and Florence, 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 al