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Late in the evening General Rosecrans, accompanied by General McCook, and several other officers whose names I am now unable to recall, rode by my headquarters on their way to the rear to look for a new line of battle on Overall's creek it was said that would preserve our communications with Nashville and offer better facilities for resistance than the one we were now holding.
Let us find out the name of the street before we separate, for we may miss our way and not be able to meet again." Passing up into the busy streets, Vincent presently stopped and purchased a paper of a newsboy who was running along shouting, "News from the war! Defeat of the rebels! Fight in a railway car near Nashville! A minister punishes a border ruffian!" "Confound those newspaper fellows!"
The straggler-ketchers 've got 'em." "No," said another; "they skipped out before the rear-guard was formed, and were all drowned trying to swim the Cumberland." "They say the Colonel went on foot," said a third, "and was the first man in the regiment to reach Nashville. Made the best long-distance run on record."
Up to this time no hint had been given me of what was wanted after I left Vicksburg, except the suggestion in one of Halleck's dispatches that I had better go to Nashville and superintend the operation of troops sent to relieve Rosecrans. Soon after we started the Secretary handed me two orders, saying that I might take my choice of them. The two were identical in all but one particular.
Nashville is on the west bank of the Cumberland, and Buell was approaching from the east. I thought the steamers carrying Nelson's division would be useful in ferrying the balance of Buell's forces across. I ordered Nelson to put himself in communication with Buell as soon as possible, and if he found him more than two days off from Nashville to return below the city and await orders.
The Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis suspended traffic entirely. The Louisville and Nashville from Cincinnati could reach the city only by detouring through Jeffersonville, Indiana, crossing the swollen Ohio on the Big Four bridge and returning via the Pennsylvania bridge to reach the Louisville and Nashville station, which was used also by the Pennsylvania trains.
Any relation to old Maje Corbin of Nashville, sir?" "No," said the stranger briefly. "I'm from Shelbyville." "The Major," continued the Colonel, half closing his eyes as if to follow the Major into the dreamy past, "the old Major, sir, a matter of five or six years ago, was one of my most intimate political friends, in fact, sir, my most intimate friend. Take a chyar!"
The Louisville and Nashville trains were leaving the city for the West on time, but arriving trains were much delayed. So far only one life had been lost as a direct result of the high waters here. Miss Anna Smith, the first victim, drowned in an attempt to reach Newport in a skiff that capsized in midstream. Her three men companions were rescued while swimming to shore.
After gathering what few things I wanted to take with me and providing myself with some needed clothes, I bade mother and the old home farewell, and started out for the first time alone in a world I knew very little about. It was on the tenth day of February, 1869, that I left the old home, near Nashville, Tennessee.
Lincoln Preparation for the defense of Washington Scott's loyalty Battle of Bull Run Scott and McClellan Free navigation of the Mississippi River Retirement of General Scott and affecting incidents connected therewith Message of President Lincoln McClellan on Scott Mount Vernon Scott sails for Europe Anecdote of the day preceding the battle of Chippewa The Confederate cruiser Nashville Incident between Scott and Grant Soldiers' Home Last days of Scott His opinion of noncombatants.
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