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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Chattanooga. (search)
nds the Federal auxiliary Army of the Tennessee, has reached Huntsville, on his way to join the Army of the Cumberland, at Chattanooga. He undertook to repair the Memphis and Charleston Railroad as he advanced; but the destruction of the track by Lee's and Roddy's cavalry, who fell back before him, was so complete that he finally abandoned the work, crossed the Tennessee river at Florence, and marched across the country to Huntsville, where he had arrived at our last advices. By adopting thisircumstances, is wholly out of place at a time like this. Instead, therefore, of ordering the late impressment of horses, it would have been wiser to have dismounted these gentry. Such escorts are unknown in the army of Northern Virginia. Gen'l Lee alone in the army has an escort — a small one--which never goes with him except in battle, when the men are used as couriers; all other General officers are restricted to the legal number of orderly, or couriers as we call them. If the reform
The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Mede's official report of the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
Mede's official report of the battle of Gettysburg. Gen. Meade's official report of the battle of Gettysburg is published in the Northern papers. We yesterday gave a summary of the results as stated by him, and to-day publish, as a very interesting matter of history, his report. He says: The Confederate army, which was commanded by Gen. R. E. Lee. was estimated at over one hundred thousand strong. All that army had crossed the Potomac river and advanced up the Cumberland Valley. Reliable intelligence placed his advance thus:--Ewell's corps on the Susquehanna, Harrisburg, and Columbia. Longstreet's corps at Chambersburg, and Hill's corps between that place and Cashtown. The 28th of June was spent in ascertaining the positions and strength of the different corps of the army, but principally in bringing up the cavalry which had been covering the rear of the army in its passage over the Potomac, and to which a large increase had just been made from the force previou
The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee General Thomas. (search)
he as to the inexorable duty of Virginia to cast her lot in a Southern Confederacy. But a little while before the secession of that State, Thomas being on his way home Northward, passing through Virginia, fell down a steep railroad embankment at Lynchburg and broke a leg. Thus crippled he was taken to Troy, N. Y, where he had married a Miss Keling, and where he was some time confined to his lodgings, surrounded and worked upon by a potent family influence. Meant me Virginia had seceded, R. E. Lee, his Colonel, had resigned, and he became in his stead a Colonel of the Federal service; events of vast moment had followed with a giant's stride; his honor succumbed to the temptations around him, and to the solicitations of his Northern connections. This once ultra Virginian accepted service against the State and section of his birth and pride — against his life-long principles, and in renunciation of a duty and fealty which he had ever recognized. It was this Virginian who unquestiona
The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The London times on Confederate military movements. (search)
erate commanders have displayed a degree of military skill and a power of combining their force that the Federals have never been able to attain. The armies of General Lee and General Bragg, in Georgia and Northern Virginia, were more than four hundred miles apart in a straight line. Yet they cooperated with and supported each otas never yet been so signally proved as by the transfer of Longstreet's corps from Virginia to Tennessee to aid in the defeat of Rosecrans, and back again to enable Lee to make this advance so confidently. The troops thus twice moved from point to point must have traversed more than a thousand miles of road, some of the railway lious. The possession of these lines has been of immense advantage to the Southerners, but it requires great strategical ability to turn even advantages to account. Lee and Longstreet could not refer to any operations of ancient war for precedents. To weaken one army in the face of an enemy of equal force, to strengthen another fo