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Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army., Strategy. (search)
army, and see how it acts, in order to carry out the plan we have traced. The rebel army, in the accomplishment of this plan, proceeds with the utmost speed to Paducah; there, or in the neighborhood, it crosses the Ohio. If AIV tries to cross the Mississippi near Cairo, to join with a part of the reserve Army AV, and to retreatmight be accomplished in about three or four weeks after the defeat of AIII, as BIII would require only seven or eight days to go, partly by rail, from Decatur to Paducah, the distance not being more than ten ordinary days' march. From this last-named place it might reach St. Louis in a forced march of six or seven days; and if wesed to the now strongly-reinforced B. After the destruction of AIV, BIII should advance and join with B. A cannot prevent their junction, as BIII could pass to Paducah, and be transported from there by rail to B. The relative positions of the two armies would now be-- 325,000 Union troops opposed to about 400,000 rebels on