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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
a and Tennessee railroad, one of whom escaped from the enemy at Glade Spring, and the other went out from Lynchburg on an engine to make a reconnaissance. These officers also report that the enemy has destroyed every bridge on the railroad between Glade Spring and Max Meadows. Yankee papers confirm our surmise that Stoneman was in command of this raiding party. The news from Tennessee. The news from Tennessee, furnished us by the Yankee press, is not of the most delightful and cheering character, certainly; but we have the consolation, upon which we can always rely where their statements are concerned, that matters are not half so bad as they represent. Thomas says that, on the 16th, he again drove Hood before him and captured thirty cannon. If he has thirty of Hood's cannon, they were captured not on the 16th alone; but the number is made up by adding together the captures of the two days. The reader will find the Yankee accounts in another column of to-day's paper.
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
w York papers of Saturday, the 17th, and Baltimore papers of that evening. Another Defeat of General Hood reported by Thomas — he captures twelve pieces of artillery and two thousand prisoners. The official dispatches from Nashville report stlay as thick on the contested line as the rebels had stood there. Hood cannot make another such day's fight, whilst Thomas is in good condition to press him — We captured more wagons — cannot say the number Everybody — white and black — did splendidly. The following is the official dispatch of General Thomas describing the second day's fight: Headquarters Department of the Cumberland.Nashville, December 16.--6 P. M. To the President of the United States,Hon Edain M. Stanton, fected with but a very small loss to us.--Our loss, probably, does not exceed three hundred, and very few killed. George H. Thomas, Major-General. Another telegram represents that "Hood is apparently doing his best to get away." Another