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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
s provided for, the army of Tennessee moved forward to the front of Nashville, where on the 2d of December a line of battle was formed and intrenchments provided. Smith's brigade of Cleburne's division came up, and Ector's brigade of Stewart's corps rejoined the army, which was now 23,053 strong, opposed to an army under Gen. Georhe 6th the enemy declined his offer of battle, but on the next morning moved out on the Salem turnpike in force and drove in his pickets, when the infantry, except Smith's (Tennessee) brigade, made a shameful retreat with the loss of two pieces of artillery. Failing with Bate's assistance to rally the troops, he called for Armstrong's and Ross' brigades of Jackson's division, who charged the enemy and checked his advance. On the 9th, Smith's brigade of Cleburne's division, under Colonel Olmstead, relieved Bate, who joined his proper command. On the 13th, Brig.-Gen. W. H. Jackson captured a train of 17 cars and the Sixty-first Illinois regiment of infantry
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
Lieutenant Sale in reserve, and not engaged in the city proper. This considerable force was withdrawn from the front of Smith without arousing a suspicion on the part of the Federal commander, for the purpose of diverting Smith's column from an adSmith's column from an advance south of Oxford, the Confederate commander being sensible of the inability of his small command to give battle successfully. General Washburn, in his official report, remarks that the fact that Forrest should have left our immediate front a his censure of Gen. A. J. Smith in a dispatch to General Sherman, Washburn communicated the fact that he had ordered General Smith back to Memphis and his division to Georgia. Forrest never failed to destroy the military reputation of the Federal commanders encountered by him, and he now had his revenge on Washburn and Smith for the disaster at Harrisburg. In a few days Forrest entered upon a campaign through north Alabama and middle Tennessee, the incidents of which show great celerity o