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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee's army. (search)
e could not be reinforced, and that special terror of all our commanders, the gunboats, could not be employed. If Buell were beaten at Nashville, the Fasters portion of Tennessee would be redeemed. Bragg would be placed between Louisville and Rosecrans. He could either drop down into Mississippi, and, reinforcing Van Dorn, fall with united forces on Rosecrans, or he could march, upon Louisville, which was very slenderly defended.--The main object, therefore, was to defeat Buell first of all.Rosecrans, or he could march, upon Louisville, which was very slenderly defended.--The main object, therefore, was to defeat Buell first of all. It appears to us that, had be united all his forces as early as the 10th of August, or even a fortnight later, he could not have failed to heat Buell, who was greatly alarmed for his position and ready to leave it upon very little provocation. General Bragg, however, conceived altogether a different plan of campaign, and, as it has since proved, a most disastrous one. He not only left Buell at liberty to march where he pleased, but permitted him, by his tardy movements, to get to Louisville