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NASHVILLE: A GREAT BATTLE YESTERDAY; GEN. THOMAS DEFEATS HOOD (12/16/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 12/16/1864
Posted on 12/16/2024 7:27:59 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
[OFFICIAL.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, Thursday, Dec. 15 -- 11:30 P.M.
To Major-Gen. Dix:
The department has just received unofficial dispatches from Nashville, announcing that Gen. THOMAS, with the forces under his command, attacked HOOD's army in front of Nashville at nine o'clock this morning, and although the battle is not yet decided, the whole action to-day is described as splendidly successful.
Our line advanced on the right five miles. The enemy were driven from the river, from their intrenchments, from the range of hills on which their left rested, and forced back upon his right and centre, and the centre was pushed back from one to three miles, with the loss of seventeen guns and about fifteen hundred prisoners, and his whole line of earthworks, except a mile of his extreme right, where no serious attempt was made to dislodge him.
Our casualties are reported to be light.
HOOD's whole army, except the cavalry and a small force near Murfreesboro, were engaged.
EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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