The Placer herald., 1861-12-14
The Campaign i'll Western Virginia..
What of it2

The Wheeling InteHigencer is of the opin'
ion that the campaign in Western Virginia is
virtually ended for this season. 1t says that
''if the army of Western Virginia is not large
|y reinforced very shortly, it will have to
content itself for the remainder of the sea
son with acting on the defensive" though
thai, il lis opinion, "wll not be an arduous
service"
We would have been pleased had the In
teHigencer summed up the result of The cam
paign in Western Virginia. One thing we
all know, that has been a very expensive af
far, costing not less that sixty to hundred
millions Of dollars, augmented beyond what
was proper by official delinquency, red'tape-
ism, and the great difficulty of transportation,
and procuring supplies for man and beast.
10 offset that, we can say that the campaign
has been very severe dsclpIlnarlan, and
the troops that have solved in it may be con
silered as hit for any arduous service:-Thev
may be set down under the class of"veterans'
The campaign has also developed the fact,
which was sneered at by the Confederates,
that Western troops are match any day
for an equal number of their opponents in
the field. Indeed, il is about the only place
where we have demonstrated the superior
oriy of our troops 10 those of the enemy.
One of the reasons for sending an army
into Western Virginia was to develop and
encourage the Union feeling of that section
and support the new government Of Perpont
The first, all will admit, was a grand failure.
Except in particular localities on the Ohio
river, there are no fighting Union men in
Western Virginia. This is the universal les
timony of our troops We are indeed told
that there are seven reg imints OF Western
Virginia Union men in the army. That is
laughed at by those in the service in that
quarter. There is one Virginia regimen.
section. The others that 90 by that name
are recruits drawn from Pennsylvania and
Ohio So far, therefore as this reason Tor
the campaign in Western Virginia is con-
cerned, it may be put down as having prov
ed failure of expectations.
Another reason as we understood was to
act III concert with our army on the Polo'
mae, and by both divisions moving the one
in a sUulhleasterly direction from the West,
and the other in II southery and south wes-
terIy from Washington, to crush ont between
them all disunionism in the State. 1t will
be conceded that both so far have failed
'l'he army Of tha Potomac is not as far AL
vanced rs it WAS months ago; while that of
Western Virginia will have have to fall back
TO where it started from, to commence the
campaign anew in the spring
So far as the great objects Of the cam
paign in Western Virginia are concerned, it
seems to us TO have been barren of beneficial
resultsthal is, it has failed to accomplish
what WAS expected Of it. If it has diverted
enough Confederate troops from the Poto
mac TO have saved Washington, it has done
that much good. Beyond that, besides dis
cipiuiog and hardening our troops aud af-
fording them opportunities to show their va
or and endurance we do not see that the
results Of the campaign have been very sat-
isiactory. Cincinnati Enqmiuye.