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Dayton Daily Empire
Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio
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Report from Knoxville on October 25 details a four-hour engagement in Tennessee where Union forces under Wolford fought 5,000 rebels, recapturing wagons but losing a battery; losses near 300 each side. General Sanders advanced, forcing rebel retreat with minimal losses. Colonel Crawford returned successfully from arming recruits in Virginia and North Carolina.
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Cincinnati, October 27—A special dispatch to the Gazette dated Knoxville, October 25th, contains the following information:
"The engagement of to-day was a gallant and hotly contested hand-to-hand affair of over four hours. The rebel force was estimated at 5,000. They lost, in killed, wounded and prisoners, over 300. Wolford recaptured his wagon train and some of his men, but lost his grasshopper battery.
"Our losses in killed, wounded and missing were near 300.
"General Sanders advanced yesterday. The rebels made a stand below Philadelphia, but fell back upon our approach. A running fight was kept up until dark. There are no rebels east of Sweetwater. Sanders' loss was but two killed.
"The road above is all cleared. Colonel Crawford of the 1st Tennessee Artillery, has just returned from an expedition to distribute arms through Virginia and North Carolina, and receive recruits. He was successful in both. The people are rising everywhere."
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Tennessee
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October 25th
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rebels lost over 300 killed, wounded, and prisoners; union losses near 300 killed, wounded, and missing; sanders' loss two killed.
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Gallant four-hour hand-to-hand engagement with 5,000 rebels; Wolford recaptured wagon train and men but lost grasshopper battery. Sanders advanced yesterday, rebels fell back from below Philadelphia after running fight until dark; no rebels east of Sweetwater. Road cleared. Crawford returned from successful expedition distributing arms and receiving recruits in Virginia and North Carolina.