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ere, and lasted an hour and a half. The prisoners numbered twenty-one hundred. Late in the month of December General Rosecrans commenced his advance from Nashville upon the position of General Bragg at Murfreesburg. His movement began on December 26th by various routes, but such was the activity of our cavalry as to delay him four days in reaching the battlefield, a distance of twenty-six miles. On the 29th General Wheeler with his cavalry brigade gained the rear of Rosecrans's army, and d rear. The first point at which the range of hills extending from Vicksburg up the Yazoo approaches near to the river is at Haines's Bluff, some twenty miles by the course of the Yazoo from the Mississippi River. Here the troops were landed December 26th to attack the redoubts which had been built upon the bluff. On the 27th little progress was made. On the 28th the attempt by one division to approach the causeway north of the Chickasaw Bayou was repulsed with heavy loss. The troops were