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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee General Thomas. (search)
thern connections. This once ultra Virginian accepted service against the State and section of his birth and pride — against his life-long principles, and in renunciation of a duty and fealty which he had ever recognized. It was this Virginian who unquestionably saved the Yankee army at Chattanooga by his coolness, his sturdy courage, and his good Tactics — his concentration and intervention of his masses at the critical moment to resist the fierce but unsustained outset of our troops who had not been thus concentrated. Benedict Arnold was not a braver solder than George Thomas, the traitor of Virginia. A Mobile paper says that Thomas, having been the Lieutenant for years of his present adversary, Bragg, the latter "knows him like a book." On who knows both assures me Thomas knows his old Captain quite as well, and especially in what he is granting as a commander. It is doubtful, therefore, whether we have good cause for gratulation in the exchange of Thomas for Rosecrans