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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], The U. S. Presidential election. (search)
The Southwest--the recent successful operations there. The skill, success, and energy displayed by our Generals in the Southwest in the recent operations in that section can only be fully appreciated since we have had the Yankee version of the brief and utterly unproductive campaign which has been an admirably and so completely foiled and defeated. This campaign was designed on the grandest scale of any which the enemy has projected during the war. It has the impress of Halleck's comprehensive closet strategy, and embraced a field of operations the most extensive, and a series of combinations the most elaborate, that have yet been essayed by the enemy, or by any commanders in ancient or modern warfare. This plan comprehended a general advance from all the various positions held by the enemy in the vast extent of our territory stretching from Chattanooga westward to Memphis, from Memphis southward to New Orleans, and from New Orleans eastward to the Florida coast. No wonder