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Title: 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
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ivisionscovered all the roads leading southand south-west from that city. Ofcourse, it rained heavily, as usualwhen our Generals attempted an im-portant movement in Winter; andMcCook, on our right, was soon en-veloped in a fog so dense as to bringhim to a halt. Within two milesafter passing our picket-line, our ad-vance was resisted by heavy bodiesof cavalry, well backed by infantryand artillery; who skirjnished sharply Moore nays ho had but 1,200 men in thofight, and that he was hemmed in on all sidesby an overwhelming force of five or six to one.Bragg says Morgan had not more than 1,200in OAtvm and that he took 1,800 prisoners,with two guns and 2,000 small arms. The BebelBanner (Murfreesboro, Dec. 11) says: All told, our forces were about 1,300. Moore saysthe Rebel loss in killed and wounded was about400: Bragg says their loss in killed and woundedwas 125, and ours 500. Moore lays his defeat attho door of tho 106th Ohio, Col. TafEle, whom hecharges with intense cowardice.» Dec. 12.
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PRETARIXG FOR BATTLE AT STONE RIVER. 273 and constantly, taking advantage ofthe continually increasing roughnessof the country, which is in good partheavily wooded with forests of oakand dense thickets of cedar, render-ing the movement slow and by nomeans bloodless. McCook, with ourright, rested that night at Nolens-ville, and the next at Triune; Crit-tenden, with our left, advanced thefirst day to Lavergne, and the nextto Stewarts creek, where Rosecransseems to have expected that theKebels might give him battle. Thethird day, being Sunday, our troopsmainly rested. Next moraing, Mc-Cook pressed on to WilkinsonsCross-Roads, six miles from Mur-freesboro; while Crittenden, withPalmers division in advance, movedon the main Murfreesboro pike toStone Rivek ; finding the Rebel armyin position along the bluffs across thatstream. Palmer, observing an ap-parently retrogade movement on thepart of the enemy, erroneously re-ported to headquarters that theywere retreating; and Crittenden wasthereup

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