Thursday afternoon, Dec. 18, 1862
The papers of yesterday gives no further particulars of the battle at Fredericksburg, but a history will relate them in full, I need not mention them here. We learned yesterday that the enemy had re-crossed the Rappahannock. This movement is regarded as an acknowledgement of defeat. The enemy are pressing in North Carolina, towards the Wilmington + Weldon Railroad, and Gen. Evans, with a small force, has been fighting them for several days. A report yesterday that Gen. Jas. E. Johnston had recently had a successful battle with the enemy at Murfreesboro', Tennessee, (on Saturday). Nothing authentic. The report mentioned by me on the 10th, in regard to Morgan's exploit at Huntsville, is confirmed.
[transcript by the Valley of the Shadow project]
MSS 38-258
[transcript by the Valley of the Shadow project]
MSS 38-258
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