The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], The cause of the late Defeat.

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The cause of the late Defeat.

--An article appears in the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, of last Monday morning, from Senator Hill, of that State, upon the cause of the late disaster to our arms in Northern Georgia. Senator Hill says:

‘ More than half the new officers and privates on Gen. Bragg's muster rolls are absent from duty, and that of the 103,000 men drawing pay in that army, only 40,000 were present for duty. They are to be found around our hotels, around their homes, and upon all our railroads — some with legitimate leaves of absence, but it is surmised that at least ninety out of every hundred are able for duty, and ought to be at their posts. find all the well men been present at the late battle the invading army would not only been defeated but annihilated.

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The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. December 8, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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The cause of the late Defeat.