the railroad cars. During the succeeding week Mitchel crossed the
greater part of his command over the river, and without his wagons,
reached Edgefield opposite Nashville on the evening of the 14th,
at the same time that General Buell arrived by rail, the latter
using some of the cars captured at Bowling Green. At Edgefield
Mitchel found both of the bridges into Nashville destroyed, and
his crossing was effected on the steamers that brought Nelson's
division to that place.

The Fourth Division was ordered in February to reinforce the Federal
troops at Fort Donelson. Nelson, with two brigades, moved from
Camp Wickliffe to the Ohio River on February 13th, and there took
steamer for the Cumberland River. On his arrival at Fort Donelson,
he found it in possession of the Federal troops, and he then proceeded
by the boats with his command to Nashville, arriving there on the
25th. Nelson's Third Brigade reported a few days later, having
marched direct from Bowling Green.

General Thomas L. Crittenden's command, organizing at Owensboro,
had a skirmish with a force of 500 rebels at Woodland. Colonel
Burbridge was sent with some three hundred troops of his own command
and a small force from Colonel McHenry's regiment. Attacking the
enemy, they routed him, inflicting a loss of some fifty killed,
wounded, and prisoners. On the 24th, the rebel General Breckenridge
made a demonstration with 4,000 men at Rochester, occupying Greenville
with his cavalry, Crittenden made such disposition of his troops
that the enemy, without risking an attack, returned to Bowling
Green. Early in February General Buell ordered Crittenden to send
Colonel Cruft with his brigade to report to General Grant. Cruft,
however, reached Fort Henry after the surrender, but his brigade