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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The position of Rosecrans's army. (search)
The position of Rosecrans's army. The correspondent of the Cincinnati Times gives the following relative to the position of Rosecrans's army at Chattanooga: After our retiring within the rebel works the enemy seemed to reluctantly follow.--They held back as if to give us full opportunity for a successful recrossing of the Tennessee river. But Gen. Rosecrans did not see proper to take advantage of these favorable designs of the enemy. On returning to Chattanooga, instead of placing the Tennessee between his forces and those of the rebels, he immediately called around him his Generals, and in a few words explained to them his future intended plans. This place is to be held at all hazards; we here make the big fight, be the strength of the enemy what it may! Beyond this point the Army of the Cumberland will not retire while there is a foe to menace it. Gen. St. Clair Morton, chief of engineers, immediately set about to put the place in a defensible condition for the w