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b- During the afternoon the troops arrived; r s- ! at Sommerset, but still no tents met us , t /e and they from necessity are turned out! c w into the fields covered with six inches of i in snow to make themselves comfortable, af- j1 [j, j ter their hard march. All of the churches a 5? and school-houses were immediately taken j f)t for the use of the sick, and the empty : vit i wagons dispatched back to bring up the ja sick left on the road. The miserable man-; i y ; agement, that has left our soldiers without h d their tents and clothing, and reduced them \ ] while on arduous duty to half rations, is \ti the result of the inefficiency of the De- jopartment Commander or the Post Quar- i 1termaster at Louisville, and no blame can ; t be attached to our Division Commander, \ ti ho has made use of every exertion to, tl _ake his Division comfortable. It now j I has its tents,land clothing is being issued in which with the presence of the paymaster; fi has mollified the ire of the men which lit y | was nearly breaking out into mutiny.ve General Woods division marched fromdeVIfOhere ^§y before yesterday and Gen. Van- !d clevcs to-day—destination said to be Gal-atin. This division had orders to march1Cfor tlmAame plalt;^ to-morrow morning, h but tflPorder has been recalled with aneihris1v1!Clintimation that we will go to Gainsboro, mhen we move. Four deserters from the rebel army caijio in to-day who say “they left Murfersboro on the 81st of October. That Breckenridges was at that point; the Cavalry and Artillery had already left for the purpose of attacking Nashville and g the infantry was to follow on the nextjdmorning.” As McCooks Corps de Army wfls moving through Bowling Green on the 30th and 31st ult., for the same destination, it is not improbable they will reconsider their plan of operations or catch a tartar. The same deserters report that it was understood in Breckenridge’s armym mr w ^ m a m AhtlhP(that Bragg was arrested on his arrival at c^Heainmond, amWftat General Jo. Johnson as-Knoxv^IHe and egdered to report at Itich-sumed command of his forces and was marching on Nashville by the way of Sparta. These reports cannot he deemedmweteymtlitrworreliabl^but* if they should prove to hetTLtrue, ta Ire \mworCTib Middle Tennessee under General ecr^lUosecnps Management.
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Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Thu, Nov 20, 1862
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