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The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], Review of Bragg's last campaign. (search)
t, they might have reoccupied Chattanooga, captured a large part of the Federal army, and dispersed the remainder through the mountains north of the Tennessee, where they would have been an easy prey to our cavalry; or, failing to adopt that plan, if the army had been moved across the river above, and had gained the rear of the enemy, as it could easily have done, that the same results would have followed, together with the enforced evacuation of East Tennessee by Burnside. If, therefore, Gens. Polk and Hindman failed to come to time in McLemore's Cove, and thus prevented the destruction of the Federal army, impartial justice requires it to be stated that the General commanding fell into an error in the course he pursued which has been, though it was not necessarily, quite as fatal. It may be that his transportation was insufficient for a march into the heart of Tennessee, and that time was necessary to prepare his commissariat for so important an undertaking; yet, granting this to b
The Daily Dispatch: December 15, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
False Keys. --Booker, slave to A. H. Rahm was before the Mayor yesterday to answer the charge of entering the storeroom of W. R. Polk, by means of a false key and lock pick, and stealing a quantity of shoes and other valuables. The prisoner's wife, who is Mr. P.'s servant, testified in behalf of the Commonwealth, and established the guilt of the accused, who was remanded for final trial by the Hustings Court.