. Narrative of military operations : directed, during the late war between the states . ral infantry with a spirit that drove themvery soon down the hill and across the stream. Butfresh troops in much stronger bodies, especially onthe right, supported by as many batteries, apparently,as could be brought to bear, then advanced againstthe Confederates. The unequal straggle that ensuedwas soon ended by the defeat of the latter withsevere loss, and the recovery of the contested hillby the enemy. Breckenridges division resumed itsformer position at dusk. During this engagement, the ground occupied
. Narrative of military operations : directed, during the late war between the states . ral infantry with a spirit that drove themvery soon down the hill and across the stream. Butfresh troops in much stronger bodies, especially onthe right, supported by as many batteries, apparently,as could be brought to bear, then advanced againstthe Confederates. The unequal straggle that ensuedwas soon ended by the defeat of the latter withsevere loss, and the recovery of the contested hillby the enemy. Breckenridges division resumed itsformer position at dusk. During this engagement, the ground occupied onthe 31st by Hazens brigade was recovered by theenemy. In the morning of the 3d of January it wasretaken by a detachment formed from Coltarts andWhites brigades. A vigorous but ineffectual effortto dislodge this detachment was made by the Fed-erals. The armies faced each other without seriousfighting during the remainder of the day. GeneralBragg was employed all the afternoon in sendinghis trains to the rear, and in other preparations toretire. The army was put in motion about mid-. LT GE N. PO LK. 1863.] BATTLE OF MURFEEESBORO. 159 night, and marched quietly- across Duck Kiver,Polks corps halting opposite to Shelbyville, andHardees at Tullahoma. General Bragg estimates his force at thirty thou-sand infantry and artillery, and five thousand cavalry,and his loss at more than ten thousand, includingtwelve hundred severely wounded and three hundredsick, left in Murfreesboro. He claims to have cap-tured over thirty pieces of artillery, six thousandprisoners, six thousand small-arms, nine colors, am-bulances and other valuable property, and to havedestroyed eight hundred loaded wagons. Major-General Rosecrans reports that he had inhis army forty-three thousand four hundred infantryand artillery, and tbr»ee thousand three hundred cav-alry; of whom nine thousand two hundred andsixty-seven were killed and wounded, and threethousand four hundred and fifty made prisoners—inall, twelv
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