The Advance on Bowling Green

(From the Indianapolis Journal, Feb. 13th.)

From Mr. E. B. Allen, of Terre Haute, who left Munfordville Tuesday evening, we learn that the long expected forward movement of the Green River line of our forces has commenced.  On Monday morning at 11 o’clock the troops began crossing, and a continuous stream poured over it till eleven at night.  Over seventeen thousand men had crossed, up to that hour, including one regiment of cavalry and five batteries of artillery.  On Tuesday, three more batteries were taken over, and yesterday the brigade in which is our celebrated German regiment were to cross.  The total force across, or ordered to cross, nobody but Gen. Buell knows, but it is going to be enormous. – Troops are still pouring into Louisville. – Mr. Allen saw the last of nine steamboat-loads of men which had been taken into the city within twenty-four hours, and the boats were putting back for more.  There can be no doubt that at least the gigantic anaconda, which has been sleeping along Green river, has begun to writhe in the first movements of the crushing hug he is about to give the rebel forces on the Nashville road.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 19, 1862, p. 2