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CLARKSVILLE, December 15, 1864-6 p. m.
Major General G. H. THOMAS:
Commanding officer of Black Hawk telegraphs that transport Naugatuck was fired into by artillery and infantry at Kelly's crossing, twelve miles below Eddyville, by Lyon's force, and that our scouts
report eight guns at Kelly's crossing.
S. P. LEE,
Acting Rear-Admiral, Commanding Mississippi Squadron.
GENERAL THOMAS' HEADQUARTERS,
December 15, 1864.
Rear-Admiral S. P. LEE,
Clarksville:
Your two dispatches received. We have turned the enemy's left; carried three or four redoubts and enemy's main line; captured 1,000 prisoners, 16 pieces of artillery, and 14 wagons-Chalmers' headquarters train. Our loss probably 500 killed and wounded.
WM. D. WHIPPLE,
Brigadier-General and Chief of Staff.
CLARKSVILLE, December 15, 1864-10 p. m.
Brigadier General W. D. WHIPPLE:
Please accept my hearty thanks for your telegram informing me of General Thomas' important success, and make my warm congratulations to the general.
S. P. LEE,
Acting Rear-Admiral, Commanding Mississippi Squadron.
U. S. STEAMER MOOSE,
Robinson's Island, Cumberland River, December 15, 1864.
Brigadier General WILLIAM D. WHIPPLE,
Chief of Staff, Army of the Cumberland:
GENERAL: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of you favor of this date, and am happy to state in reply that things here are working well. Our forces have captured the guns in the upper rebel battery on the river. There was another battery back from the river near the landing; I think the forces no shore and the Monitor silenced it, as we did not hear from it after dark. At dark I withdrew my boats, fearing they might by accident fire into our own men. I am just above the batteries to-night; will move at early daylight.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
LE ROY FITCH,
Lieutenant Commander, Commanding Tenth District, Mississippi Squadron.
HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE,
December 15, 1864.Brigadier General THOMAS J. WOOD:
I will move out and form, my left resting on your right.
A. J. SMITH,
Major-General.
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