Crossword-Solution: BOWLINGGREEN 12 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

Military situation in the West--Advance to Bowlinggreen--Scarcity of arms--Organization of the army--Want of discipline--Qualities which compensated for its absence.

Retreat from Bowlinggreen--Evacuation of Nashville--Our Fourth Ohio acquaintances--Scouting near Nashville--Morgan holds Murfreesboro'--Dash on Mitchell--Night attack--Capture of Gallatin--Stampede of our pickets--Promotion of Morgan--Concentration at Corinth.

Finding that his plans were rendered impossible of execution, on account of the want of General Pillow's co-operation, Hardee returned to Pocahontas, and was shortly afterward transferred, with the greater portion of the troops under his command, to the eastern side of the river, and was ordered to Bowlinggreen as soon as that place was occupied.

The Barren river empties into the Green some twenty miles from and northwest of Bowlinggreen, and the Green flowing in a northwesterly direction, affords an admirable line of defense for many miles to the left.

The Cumberland river rising, in the mountains of Southeastern Kentucky, flows nearly due East and West and upon the same parallel of latitude on which Bowlinggreen is situated, until within sixty or seventy miles of that place, when it inclines to the Southwest.