...g the people; and, during the despondency that prevailed after the failure of the campaign of the Army of the Potomac, ending in inaction after the Battle of Antietam, and of the Army of the Ohio in Kentucky , when Bragg and his, forces were allowed to escape to a stronghold near Nashville, elections were held in ten Free-labor States, and, in the absence of the votes of the soldiers (two-thirds of whom ...