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The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Rapidan. (search)
he public men charged with the responsibility of a military misfortune. The Government, which knows all the facts, must be presumed to have grounds for its action or non-action which, for reasons of public interest, cannot always be made known to the people. When General Sidney Johnston was at Bowling Green, Ky., he was universally denounced for falling back, the critics assuming that he had eighty thousand men, when, as it was afterwards discovered, he had but twenty thousand. When Gen. Jo. Johnston was at Winchester, in the beginning of the war, he was as roundly abused for not fighting the Yankees, and it was not until he swooped down upon them at Manassas that some of his critics believed there was any fight in him. We have suffered a defeat at Chickamauga, and we gained a victory there also; but the victory did not stop the mouths of the croakers, for it was not followed up. Do they know, or can they pretend to know, why it was not followed up? Are they sure that Gen. Bragg h