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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Rosecrans on the battle of Chickamauga. (search)
umberland--You have made a grand and successful campaign; you have driven the rebels from Middle Tennessee.--You crossed a great mountain range, placed yourselves on the banks of a broad river, crossed it in the face of a powerful opposing army, and crossed two other great mountain ranges at the only practicable passes, some forty miles between extremes. You concentrated in the face of superior numbers — fought the combined armies of Bragg, which you drove from Shelbyville to Tullahoma; of Johnston's army from Mississippi, and for two days held them at bay, giving them blow for blow, with heavy interest. When the day closed you held the field, from which you withdrew, in the face of overpowering numbers, to occupy the point for which you set out — Chattanooga. [The reader will recollect that Rosecrans was at one time in Chattanooga, where he had arrived without molestation. Why did he start to Atlanta, when he had only set out for Chattanooga?] You have accomplished the gr