The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . lfby them, and 89 taken unhurt. Ourloss was 39 killed, and 207 wounded. It rained, as usual, and the roadsw^ere horrible; but the victors, con-siderably reenforced, were, before 4p. M., in front of the intrenchmentsat Camp Beech Grove, within whichthe flying Rebels had taken
The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . lfby them, and 89 taken unhurt. Ourloss was 39 killed, and 207 wounded. It rained, as usual, and the roadsw^ere horrible; but the victors, con-siderably reenforced, were, before 4p. M., in front of the intrenchmentsat Camp Beech Grove, within whichthe flying Rebels had taken refugean hour or two before. Shellingwas immediately commenced on ourside, feebly responded to on theother; and this continued until 7 atnight, when our soldiers desisted andlay down to rest. Gen. Schoepfsbrigade came up that night, andwere so disposed by Gen. Thomasas to make sure of the capture of A Rebel letter to the Louisville (Xashvillo)Courier, says: The enemy in front occupied Somerset withseveral regiments, and Columbia with an equalforce. On the nth and 18tb, it rained so much that Fishing creek could not be crossed; and sothe Somerset force of several thousand could notjoin the force from Columbia before the 20th. Jan. 18-19. Sunday, Jan. 19. u THE AMERICAN CONFLICT, \£ANDINFANTfiYTfiAtM. , iL< MILL SPRING. the enemy. At daylight, their littlesteamer was seen lying in the river,and was quickly set on fire by ourshells ; cutting off, as was fondly cal-culated, all chance of farther Rebelretreat. Fire was then opened ontheir intrenchraents, but there wasno response ; and it was soon discov-ered that, taking advantage of their little boat, they had silently escapedacross the river during the night,leaving 10 more guns, with caissons,and many small arms, 1,200 or 1,500horses and mules, with tents, blankets,and all the material of an army, be-hind them. The Kebel engineers had con- » A liebel letter to tho Meniphia AvcUanche, aaya 11 guns
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