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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Review of Bragg's last campaign. (search)
as there expecting reinforcements. If the expedition had not started, however, it is not improbable that Burnside would have sent a part of this forces to Chattanooga, and that we should have had to fight them, if not at Knoxville, then upon Missionary Ridge. It may be that the wiser plan would have been to employ the cavalry to prevent the junction of Burnside, and keep Longstreet, and his veterans at the point of greatest danger. If they had been on our left at Missionary Ridge on the 25th ult., there can be no doubt but that the Confederates would have been as victorious there as they were on the 13th of last December at Fredericksburg. With the exception of a daily exchange of shots by the opposing batteries the situation remained without change until about the 21st of November, when the enemy made a feint in the neighborhood of Stephens's Gap, as if he intended to repeat Rosecrans's movement upon our left flank. A column was put in motion in that direction, but it had no