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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
nia through Eastern Kentucky, than by massing our whole force for mere defence before Bowling Green. True military genius would have seen a much more effectual mode of paralyzing the enemy's movements upon Bowling Green, than stripping Western Virginia of its defence, and leaving our cause there to go to the dogs. A strong force at Peterstown, sending out detachments into the valleys of the Kanawha, the Guyandotte, and the Sandy, would, in co-operation with the movements of Marshall and Zollicoffer, have given infinitely more aid to Gen. Johnston, while at the same time protecting one-fourth of Virginia now left at the mercy of the enemy, than this reckless and soon to prove disastrous measure of stripping Western Virginia of its own troops. The Government will be surprised some fine morning very soon by the news of the burning of the New River bridge, and the blowing up of the Alleghany tunnel, on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, by a force of cavalry and mounted men dashi