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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], East Tennessee. (search)
t is about to be made to wrest this portion of the Confederacy from our grasp. It is, meanwhile, a most important possession for us in more respects than one.--It is more productive of the necessaries of life than almost any other district under our command. It commands some of our most important communications, which cannot be abandoned to the enemy without subjecting us to extreme inconvenience. It is one of the strongest countries in the world; so strong, indeed that it was called by Gen. Scott, who surveyed it many years ago, the Switzerland of America. If taken from us we shall find it extremely difficult to recover it. On the other hand, its remarkable adaptation to defensive operations induces us to hope that it cannot be taken from us. Napoleon tells us that the assailant, in mountain warfare, always labors under a disadvantage, and that a General who conducts a campaign against an army having possession of such a country ought always to manœuvre so as to make the enemy att