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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ome wagons, spiked the siege guns and destroyed the carriages. He also captured Piedmont, destroyed all the Government buildings, containing a number of engines; burnt several bridges, did considerable damage to the railroad, and collected several hundred head of cattle. His loss was two killed and two or three wounded. "The boldness and enemy exhibited by General Rosser, and the conduct of his men, deserve much praise. R. E. Lee." Hood's advance on Nashville — victory over Schofield — the enemy driven fifteen miles. The Yankee papers furnish an account of a battle at Franklin, Tennessee, eighteen miles south of Nashville; and though they claim a victory, it is plain, from their own showing, that they have sustained a disastrous defeat. They describe their position at Franklin as perfect and their victory there as complete, and in the same breath announce the retreat of their army to Nashville. Wall street read this says the news of the victory was received
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ry, only, it seems, because they captured about one thousand prisoners in the early part of the light and sent them back to Nashville. The following dispatch tells the story. Four Miles South of Nashville, December 1, 1864. General Schofield yesterday fought one of the prettiest fights of the war, resulting most disastrously to the rebels, with little loss to ourselves. After three days skirmishing, the rebels crowded our first line of works yesterday afternoon, and at four o'lled, wounded and captured. Our loss does not reach a thousand. General Bradley, of Illinois, while gallantly leading his troops, was severely wounded in the shoulder. Our loss in field officers is very small. Our troops behaved handsomely. Schofield commanded on the field, Stanley on the right and Cox on the left. General Stanley was wounded slightly in the neck, but remained on the field, and is all right to-day. I have told you all along the programme of General Thomas would electr
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From the Yankee accounts of their victory at Franklin over Hood, it must have been the strangest victory on record, except that gained by Banks over Dick Taylor last spring. It seems that Hood attacked Schofield works at 4 o'clock, nearly sunset, was at first victorious, carried the lines of the Yankees, and was then outflanked and beaten so badly that but for night coming on he would have been annihilated. In the little time that elapsed between 4 o'clock and dark, on the 1st of December, he lost six thousand men, killed and wounded, and one thousand prisoners! All this is truly wonderful! But the courtesy and urbanity of Schofield and Thomas are more marvellous than anything else.--After having defeated Hood so terribly, their politeness did not allow them to stay on the field and witness his humiliation the next day. So, in the night, they fell back to within four miles of Nashville, where they say they hold a splendid position. There they assert that the crowning battl