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The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
up the Cumberland to get in the rear of our army at Bowling Green and cut off its communications with Nashville and the South. The enemy had the advantage of throwing large reinforcements to the point of combat by way of the Cumberland river from Smithland, Paducah, and Calro, and therefore has steadily outnumbered our forces. The struggle has been the most prolonged and hotly contested of the war. Our brave soldiers have fought with a constancy and courage never excelled. Generals Floyd, Pillow, Buckner, and Johnson, (not Sidney,) commanded. The battle is understood to have raged with great severity on Friday and Saturday, and was continued yesterday. Both sides were reinforced on Saturday and probably yesterday — with what final result we are not able now to say. Our forces both on Friday and Saturday gained important advantages, and the enemy, who had been frequently driven from his position, was on the latter day thought to be routed, and no doubt would have been irrecoverably
The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
General McClernand is commanding and has a force of 50,000. Our troops are stil driving the enemy back with cold steel. Memphis, Feb. 15.--McLean's cavalry fought the Lincolnites in Scott county on yesterday, killing seven and capturing seventeen, with many horses and guns. The Lincolnites fled in disorder to the mountains. The forces engaged were about equal. Three Confederates were wounded. The Federal loss at Fort Donelson on Thursday was 500, while our loss was only 25. Gen. Pillow commanded at the Fort, and Gens. Floyd and Buckner the land forces. The contest was equal to the most terrific of the war. [third Dispatch.] Nashville, Feb. 15. --The Federals having changed their tacties, and sent off nearly their whole force from the other side of Green river, it became necessary for Gen. Johnston to change his front. On Thursday evening Bowling Green was evacuated by the larger portion of the Confederate forces, who fell back in the direction of the enem