Canton Weekly Register

GREAT BATTLE AT NASHVILLE.

We Capture 17 Guns and 1,500 Prisoners.

THE RESULT NOT YET DECIDED.

Gen. Thomas sends the following to the War Department:

Nashville, 9 o'clock A. M., Dec. 14.-We attacked the enemy's left this morning, and drove it from the river, below the city, very nearly to Franklin Pike, a distance of about eight miles. Have captured Chalmers' headquarters and train, and a second train of about twenty wagons, with between 800 and 1,000 prisoners, and 16 pieces of artillery.

Our troops behaved splendidly, all taking their share in assaulting the enemy's breastworks. I shall attack the enemy again to-morrow, if he stands to fight; and if he retreats during the night, I will pursue him, throwing a heavy cavalry force in his rear, to destroy his trains, if possible.

G. H. THOMAS, Maj. Gen.

An un-official dispatch says: "The artillery practice has been fine, and at times the musketry firing continuous and heavy, and though the casualties have been light, the results are very fair. The left occupied the same ground as in the morning, but the right had advanced five miles, driving the enemy from his entrenchments, from the river, from the range of hills on which his left rested, and forced it back on his right and center. His center was pushed back from one to three miles, with a loss in all of 17 guns and about 1,500 prisoners, and his whole line of earthworks, except about a mile on his extreme right, where no serious attempt was made to dislodge him. The whole of Hood's army is here, except the cavalry and first division, which has been detached to threaten an attack on Murfreesboro. The whole action to-day was splendidly successful."