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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The other side. (search)
claims of victory are presented in very subdued tones. We hear none of those loud shouts of triumph which that paper and the rest of the Yankee press are went to pour forth when their armies escape absolute rout. We conclude, therefore, that they are beaten, and we construe their failure to claim an overwhelming victory into an acknowledgment of a great defeat. In point of fact, one of their papers, the Cincinnati Commercial, confesses that Buell has been beaten, and driven across the Kentucky river. If so, his defeat must have been a very serious one, for his line of retreat leaves the road to Louisville entirely open to Bragg. Whether he was forced out of his natural line of retreat upon Louisville, which is his base of operations, by our army, or chose to put the Kentucky between him and his paraders, in order that be might fall back on Cincinnati, does not appear. But at any rate, he would seem to be cut off from Louisville. The Kentucky is a limestone river, flowing all th
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Northern papers. (search)
s of Bragg's victory. Mobile, October 17. --A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register from Holly Springs yesterday, says: Lieutenant-General Pemberton has assumed command of the Department. Our burial party of 300, sent to Corinth, were seized and returned as prisoners. The Cincinnati papers, of the 11th, are filled with accounts of the great battle between Gens. Bragg and Buell. The tenor of their account is that Buell is badly defeated and driven across the Kentucky river, and that Bragg is pursuing vigorously. Three hundred paroled prisoners arrived here this evening. [Second Dispatch.] Chattanooga, Oct. 17.--The Rebel has the following dispatch from Lavigne, to-day: All is uncertainty. I believe the Yankees are leaving Nashville. In addition to the above, I am satisfied there is something on hand. Letters from Bragg's army say that Buell's army is the worst whipped and most badly cut up army of the war. There is no doubt but that