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The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Wheeler's recent expedition to Charleston, Tenn. (search)
Wheeler's recent expedition to Charleston, Tenn. The recent expedition of Gen. Wheeler late Tennessee to intercept a train of one hundred and fifty wagons bound to Burnside's army; proved a failure. The train was successfully gotten across the Hiawassee river and out of Confederate reach, Gen. Wheeler then determined in attack the Yankee force at Charleston, Tenn. A writer in the Atlanta Appeal, who was with the expeditions says: Accordingly, upon our arrival there, dispositions to that end, of the troops forming the expedition, were made in the following manner: The first brigade (Col. Wade's) occupied the extreme right of the line of battle, and, being dismounted, took a strong position upon the crest of a hill in front of and overlooking the town; the first, second, and ninth Kentucky regiments held the centre, and were posted in a dense cedar bindle on the slope of the hill and immediately upon the right of the railroad; the first Kentucky battalion, Captain. Kirkpa