A dispatch from Gov. Harris gives some additional
particulars of the battle near Murfreesborough, Tenn. He says the enemy was
driven back six miles, losing four generals killed and three captured, and that
we destroyed $2,000,000 commissary and other stores. But still we have no
account of what was done yesterday on the “extreme left.”
Gen. Stuart has been near Alexandria, and his prisoners are
coming in by every train. He captured and destroyed many stores, and, up to the
last intelligence, without loss on his side. He is believed, now, to be in
Maryland, having crossed the Potomac near Leesburg.
The mayor of our city, Jos. Mayo, meeting two friends last
night, whom he recognized but who did not recognize him, playfully seized one of
them, a judge, and, garroter fashion, demanded his money or his life. The judge's
friend fell upon the mayor with a stick and beat him dreadfully before the joke
was discovered.
The President was at Mobile on the 30th December, having
visited both Murfreesborough and Vicksburg, but not witnessing either of the
battles.
We are in great exaltation again! Dispatches from Gen.
Bragg, received last night, relieve us with the information that the stronghold
of the enemy, which he failed to carry on the day of battle, was abandoned the
next day; that Forrest and Morgan I were operating successfully far in the rear
of the invader, and that Gen. Wheeler had made a circuit of the hostile army
after the battle, burning several hundred of their wagons, capturing an
ordnance train, and making more prisoners. Bragg says the enemy's telegraphic
and railroad communications with his rear have been demolished, and that he
will follow up the defeated foe. I think we will get Nashville now.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 229-30
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