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re From GenofH)« 1 In (’amp xkaii Xakiivii.ij:, Tknn.,far Nashvii.i.i:, Tknn.,)December 6th, 1SG2. fth! vvi tilI111 MfoUiar1, Ed. Mr.sRKNdF.n :—The 4th Division is1(1 encamped on the Murfreesboro Turnpike, n four miles from Nashville, Generals Hill Ita^ and \an(’leve« divisions are advanced k. about two miles further on the same pike,tr and form the advance of the annv at the ■ tli¥1 present time. A grand army is now con*Mk I U^ eehtiatcd in (ho vicinity of Nashville, onlv jr secondary to the army of the Potomac in n point of numbers, and yet all of the mil-y itary movements of its dificrent divisions^ for the last ten days would hardly furnishl ( • * Jthe staple necessary to work up into a tj respectable letter.s So slow' has been our advance since the I se - i change in department commanders, that re: tnanv entertain •iiKjricions that the uvt$wrihrGkiwinPlt;r\tMrtta” is not removed—only changedththfellmW + w,j real cause of delay, (iencral Kosecrans V!cck and, in the meantime, the lt;juartermasters* il and Commissary Departments—depart-r | meats Uiat would seem to be devised to in ^ furnish ineflicient Generals with excuses eiH Ia for inaction—arc credited with the cause0 of the delay. In the present instance, it la is to he feared, they are really inefficient, und furnish not merely the pretext, but u 1e1 is making use of the time to review the ^c different divisions of his army. The re--j view of the 4th Division came off dav ^ » •before yesterday, on a favorable position0 in front of the Insane Asylum, some two ^. miles in front of its camps. The weather it . was fine, aud the line of weather stained. 1 ! | and war-worn veterans, of which the di- ( vision is in most part composed, extend- (1 tug nearly a utile in length, with its four ( C battallions in the bath-ground on the right, t i) | made a lino appearance, while bv their - soldierly bearing aud their precision in . the different evolutions, they drew forthi i tha warm commendation of the Generals | elt;stv
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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Dec 18, 1862
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