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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], From General Bragg's army. (search)
o change has occurred since the date of my last letter. There is still some doubt felt in regard to the reinforcements alleged to have been received by Rosecrans. One day we hear that the forces lately in East Tennessee, under Burnside, have certainly arrived, and again that several trains loaded with troops have been seen by our pickets below to arrive at Stevenson; and on the next it is affirmed most positively that no reinforcements whatever have come up, either from Burnside, Grant, or Meade. My own opinion is that additional forces have been received, and that the time has passed when we could hope to force Rosecrans out of Chattanooga, except by a flank movement upon Nashville, or the destruction of his line of communications to the rear. Twenty thousand men, if properly previsioned, can hold the place indefinitely. Gen. Forrest, unwilling it is said to report to Gen. Wheeler, has been granted a leave of absence. There is but little harmony or unity in the army of Tenn
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], From General Bragg's army. (search)
From Northern Virginia. --The advices which reach us from Northern Virginia fully confirm the reports heretofore published that Meade is rapidly falling back from the line of the Rappahannock with the main body of his army. Only a small portion of his forces now remains in Culpeper, the remainder having taken the back track for the fortifications around Washington.