MURFREESBOROUGH,
January 5, 1863 — 4.30 a.m.
God has crowned our
arms with victory. The enemy are badly beaten, and in full retreat. We shall
press them as rapidly as our means of traveling and subsistence will permit.
Will you please ask the President to have Captain Morton, engineer, made
brigadier-general? He has distinguished himself in the fortification and
defense of Nashville, after our army left for Kentucky. He has organized a
Pioneer Corps of 1,700 picked men, which he now commands, with the rank of
captain, and behaved like a hero during the whole battle of Stone's River. He
not only deserves the promotion, but it is absolutely necessary to the interest
of the service that he should have the rank to command his brigade.
W. S. ROSECRANS,
Major-General.
Hon. E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
20, Part 1 (Serial No. 29), p. 185-6
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