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The Reinforcement of Donelson impossible.

--A correspondent of the N. O. Picayune. writing from Murfreesboro', Tenn., makes the subjoined statement;

On Thursday, February 13, the first day of the fight at Donelson, our forces at Bowling Green were on their way to Nashville by the turnpike road through Franklin, Ky. On Saturday, 6th they all had come up at Nashville, thus rendering it utterly impossible to have sent reinforcements, and which, if it could have been done, would only have been subject to capture. It is thus clearly evident that the retreat from Bowling Green was compulsory in order to save our army, and that the means of further reinforcing Donelson was to tally impracticable, while Nashville, being untenable, we were obliged to fall back upon this point. It is plain to all military men that no other course could have been pursued, and that the assurance should prove perfectly satisfactory to our people, however humiliating and disastrous the results may have been. Thus it will be seen, under the attending circumstance, that no human effort could have produced any other result, and that the implied censure charged upon Gen. Pillow for not having called for reinforcements in time, is as undeserved as it was impracticable.

The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 19, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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The Reinforcement of Donelson impossible.