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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Tennessee army and its (search)
mechanical race which inhabits the colder region of the North. They came from all the States in the Confederacy accept Missouri, being five first to from their respective communities. The troops who succeeded them, and who now make up our armies, on the contrary, are for the most part men of dark hair and eyes, who, being less excitable and less impetuous, were not so quick to take the field. Perhaps even now they do not possess the same dash as the 4th Alabama, the 7th and 8th Georgia, Hampton's South Carolina Legion, the 6th North Carolina, Jackson's Virginians, Wheat's Louisianian, and other regiments that met the invader upon the banks of Bull Run; but they can boast of other soldierly qualities of equal, if not greater, importance in a protracted war like this — firmness patience, and great powers of physical endurance. The career of the Army of Tennessee, from the retreat from Bowling Green and fall of Fort Donelson, down to the disaster at Missionary Ridge — whether un