Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-29
OUR WAR FOR INDEPENDENTS.
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From The Richmond Examiner, Sent o.
We have intelligence of highly important move
ments IN Western Virginia. and Of the action of our
Government in taking instant aud vigorous rnea.
sures to try the conclusions Of the campaign
The report already given in the Erdsaiaer. TO the
effect that Gen. Lee has gene TO Jon Gen Flovd is
fully confirmed by additional dispatches Accounts
received yesterday report his arrival at Floyd's
camp, at Meadow Bluff.
The army IN the Northwest remained under Che
command Of Gen. Loring.
Reinforcemeuts 10 the amount of sr, folfr comma,
MES have been sent to Floydis. command Thew
comprise four Virginia regiments, Georgia regi-
ment, Mississippi regiment, and battalion Of
Louisiana volunteers composed of four c0I1papies
The considerable portion of this large force has
already reached Floyd's camp. Two regiments
viii leave this city to morrow to reinforce our
| army in the West.
Wise's command has been ordered to I,evvisburg
We learn apart from any official publication Of
the Government, that Gen. Wise has been ordered
to report at Richmond The reasons or circum-
stances which have induced this order are matters
of conjecture, although it is supposed that Gen.
| WISE is to be transferred to another command
The present movements are understood to he in.
dicahve of unusual vigOur and concentration in the
! prosecution OF the campaign. The next news from
the west VIII be awaited with Impotence
From The Richmond Dispatch, Sept. o.
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1t is clear that the forward movement Of Gem
eral Lee from the direction of HuntersviHs and
Monterey has been blocked by the judicious forif.
cations of the enemy, and by the superior numbers
OF his strongly posted forces 1t is plain that soma
other line of march must be adopted or else the en-
envy must be expected to make his winter ON arters
in Western Virginia Il is certain that if Drop1nt
and effective measures be not taken for penetratin
that country by some line of march LEADING to the
rear Of Reynolds, we must expect one-third of Yir
ginia to remain under the jurisdiction of Pierpont
and Garlic, for season. Every DAYS delav to re-
conquer Western Virginia adds 10 the strenotb of
the enemy, by converting true men among its ponu
latiOn over to the side Of the North To allow the
enemy to winter in Western Virginia il 10 allow
him to fortliy himself IN its strongholds so securely
as to endangsr the permanent loss of the country.
With view to permanent separation. d wonld
never do Il allow the Northern Confederacy to
own the Western slope of the Alleghanies To eon.
cede that slope to the Yankees for the practice of
their negro stealing habits, would be equivalent to
abOllshing slavery in Virginia altogether The ridge
of the Allegheny chain Of mountains might be a
natural line of boundary for the two Confederacies
but it would be any thing else than line of defence
for the Southern States Rome was never secure
from the inyasions Of the Gapls and the Goths IN
til her Generals had carried the war beyond the
Alps and plsnted the eagles of the Empire upon
the Rhine and the Danube. Rome was not secure
until she held the Rhine and Danube. A mountain
frontier is a nursery of assault and invasion.
With view TO the ultimate possession of Wests
ern Virginia. the present campaign in that quarter
possesses immense interest to the whole South II
is as important portion of the South as Kentucky
itself. We shall be able to hold Kentucky with
difficulty, II the enemy should hold Western Vir-
ginia just as we should be able to hold Western
Virginia with difficulty without Kentucky In view
of the promising operations Just now going on in
Kentucky, the ca ppaign in Western. Virginia be-
comes douply important and is doubtless enlisting
the especial attention of the Confederate auorities
1t would seem from the late adVices reaching US
from every direction, that Gen Lee failing in his for
ward movement upon Cheat Mountain, was turning
his attention to the operations In Greenbrer county
and that, with an escort of TWENTY-FIVE men, he had
gone over to the camp of Gen. Floyd beyond Lewis
burg at Meadow Bluff, to look after operations in
that field. He is to he followed BY evercl thOus-
and Of his troops from HunterFille. The GoYern-
ment has also dispatched all the regiments available
at Lypehburg to thel reinforcement of Gen Ployd
insomuch, that il a fight does not come off with
Rosecrans in the meantime, we shall have on that
line of operations by the e. of the week nearly
twelve thousand men, counting the SICK and the
well, exelusiyeof Gen. sLes's army from HINT, r.
vile.
These circumstances show very plainly that the
Government has resolved upon q ne y programme |
for Western Virginia, which completes forward |
movement, with strong force, from the direction
Of Lewisburg upon Clarksburg Parkers5u1g, and |
Charleston, in Kanawha. !
Provided complete force be put at the com !
nand of our Generals on that line, much may be |
expected from this new programme. We should |
expect much quicker work from it. however and |
much more certain success if the column number |
I'd thirty thousand men, instead of fifteen or twenty;
and we shall receive sdvices CT further reinforce
nents being forwarded with much satisfaction.
The only fear to be apprehended for the success
If operations beyond Lewisburg is from the too |
great cireumspestion OF General Leo. u mountain
warfare the learning Of the books and OF The strae-
yists is of little In country where 1t is i'm
possible to find enough level land to muster COM
,a4y of militia, there is very little scope for
ngeniously studied military evOlutions or consum>
nately arranged plans of campaign on paper. It
IMPOSSIBLE for the books to embrace the thousand !
thousand typographical features of a wild region, !
where all Nature seems drunk aud the hills and
MOUNTAINS in high frolic The only rule of warfare
n such region is to throw away all rule. The
'olicy there is to fight and march, to march and
ght Mathematics Is fit only for w&dding In
eDious ink and paper plans Of campaign are about
S useless in the region about the Big Sewall as
lcCormick's reaper in mountain wheat field" |
technical generalshp IN a mountain campaign is |
3 much out of place as the Great Essern steamer
would be on the Gauley river. The great requisi-
ties Of an army fit for mountain warfare are good |
'gs and plenty of ammunition. The best general {
Dr. such an army is he who Will keep them most | !
ctively on the march and most constantly loading |
nd firing Physical exertion is the great thing in
fountain warfare the refined strategy of science 8
an have no play. While General Lee was weaving {
lgenious webs of strategy about Cheat Mountain, {
osecrans was Logging it down to the Gauley Legs |
nd powder and ball do much better in the noun |
inns than even the science of Yauban or a | I
ee.