Middle Tennessee; yet it was a negative victory so far as concerned

the result on the battle-field. Rosecrans seems to have planned the

battle with the idea that the enemy would continue passive, remain

entirely on the defensive, and that it was necessary only to push

forward our left in order to force the evacuation of Murfreesboro';

and notwithstanding the fact that on the afternoon of December 30

McCook received information that the right of Johnson's division.

resting near the Franklin pike, extended only to about the centre of

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