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The Daily Dispatch: November 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Chattanooga. (search)
elieved that Sherman will reach Bridgeport by the end of the present week, with 20,000 men, having been joined by another division before he crossed the Tennessee. He did not cross the river at Florence, as was stated in a recent letter, but at Eastport, near Iuka. His advance guard had reached Tuscumbia, but the opposition it encountered from our cavalry was such as to compel him to abandon the idea of repairing the railroad as he moved, and to return to Eastport. From the latter point he maEastport. From the latter point he marched up the north bank of the river to Rogersville, but being unable to cross Elk river, on account of the prevailing freshet, he turned the head of his column up that stream to Fayetteville, and from thence he would proceed to take the cars on the Winchester branch railroad to Decherd, and thence to Bridgeport.--Sherman commands the Army of the Tennessee, Grant's old army, and so called after the Tennessee river, up which it moved last year to Shiloh — He does not rank Thomas, the commander of