...nd falling upon Rosecrans's lines of communication, have isolated McCook, who could not possibly have escaped; or our army could have been divided, and one-half sent through Stephens's Gap to cut off McCook , then many miles below at Alpine, and the other thrown back upon Crittenden. Thus, with but trifling loss on our part, would have been accomplished the annihilation of the grand army of the Cumberl...