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CHAPTER XV.

RAPID RECUPERATION OP THE ARMY AFTER ITS RETURN PROM KENTUCKY—OCCUPATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE—REORGANIZATION OF KENTUCKY TROOPS—THE KENTUCKY BRIGADE AGAIN RE-UNITED-GENERAL HANSON IN COMMAND—CAVALRY ORGANIZATIONS—BRILLIANT MOVEMENT OF GENERAL MORGAN—CAPTURE OF HARTSVILLE WITH 2,000 PRISONERS—BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO—BRAGG'S ORDER OF BATTLE—SOME DETAILS OF THE BLOODY ENGAGEMENT—SECOND BATTLE-HEAVY LOSS IN BRECKINRIDGE'S DIVISION—DEATH OP GENERAL HANSON-BRECKINRIDGE'S REPORT—RETREAT FROM MURFREESBORO.

NOTWITHSTANDING the disappointment which the Kentucky infantry had experienced in not being permitted to take part in the campaign, and the cavalry had suffered in seeing the State abandoned to the enemy, there was no useless repining, but in common with the great body of the Confederate array, cheerfulness was soon restored; and with that remarkable spirit of recuperation which so often manifested itself in the Confederacy after disaster, it was not long before the army had resumed a hopeful and aggressive tone. Although the result of the summer campaign had not brought the fruition expected, the present condition, when contrasted with that which had existed during the spring and summer, was so much better, that there was prevalent more feeling of congratulation at the vantage gained than of repining over that which had not been secured.

The Kentucky cavalry had been increased, and on the

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