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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Narrative of Wheeler's Circuit around Rosecrans. (search)
ne appear romantic and grand to the citizens of McMinnville, and more so to the astounded Yankees. Immense were the supplies obtained by the surrender — a quantity suffices to supply an army for months. Why this concentration of supplies remains to be developed; and such a collection of quartermasters' stores has seldom been seen anywhere as was hoarded up here, to which our boys helped themselves freely. From this point we moved in the direction of Murfreesboro'. Beyond Woodbury, Scott's and Crew's brigades were detached from their respective divisions to guard some ordnance trains to Fosterville, on the railroad. By dark on the evening of the 6th we rejoined Gen. Wheeler at Fosterville, he having destroyed the bridge south of Murfreesboro', as well as capturing the garrisons in the stockades, numbering 88 men. The railroad track between Murfreesboro' and Wartrace was torn up for several miles. Martin's division drove the enemy from Wartrace and destroyed the bridges
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], Narrative of Wheeler's Circuit around Rosecrans. (search)
on of the United States have an army of scalps about as numerous as Capt. Semmes's chronometers, but they are the scalps of their friends, not their enemies. From Scott to Rosecrans — perhaps Meade will soon be added to the list — there is hung up at Washington a ghostly army of the scalps of great Generals, each of whom, in his ts, but no policy could be more unjust to their officers, and none more suicidal to their own interests, than that which they have pursued. In all probability Winfield Scott was the best soldier they ever had, and if he had been suffered to remain at the head of the United States Army we should have had more trouble than any of hihat he was never defeated is a General who has not fought many battles. But the single defeat of Manassas was enough to unhorse "the great soldier of the age," as Scott was once admiringly termed by the Yankee press, and after him the "Young Napoleon," and after him all the rest, until it is now the recognized law of Yankeedom tha