...nity of the enemy by the afternoon of the 4th and made the attack, as you had planned, on the morning of the 5th of April--that is to say, twenty-four hours earlier than it was made. In that event, Buell must have reached the theatre of war entirely too late to retrieve the disaster which was inflicted on the 6th of April, and must himself have been forced to retire in haste from Middle Tennessee. ...