Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-05
the Campaign Ln Kentucky--.Iile
Eueny,s Design,

Veloped, the enemy seem 10 nave suspended
if they have not entirely abandoned the de-
sign of penetrating East Tennessee by way,
of Cumberland Gap.
Gen. Nelson's command, some 5000
strong have withdrawn to Louisville.
The idea certainly prevails in the North
west that BUELLs designes to make speedy
advance, with the view of capturing Nashville
probably simultaneous with the one made
from Cairo on our army at Columbus. This
is evident from the following speculations
on the subject which we find IN the St. Louis
Republican of the 18th nit
''Gen. Buell. is making active eXertions to
commence at very early day offensive ope-
rations against the rebels, and Tennessee will
soon have the war, with all its horrors, ear
ried into her own territory. In the future
the battle field will be on her own soil. and
Nashville and Memphis will be scourged, as
they deserve, for their disloyalty. At pres
ent, there are 10000 Federal troops in Ken
lucky. nine regiments from Illinois, sixteen
from Indiana, seventeen from Ohio, three
from pennsylvania, one from Michigan, three
from Wisconsin and two from Minnesota
and at least % 900 of her own soldiers. The
army IS well appointed, and batteries of ar
tillery and squadrons of cavalry so along to
give it greater efficiency.
1T is safe TO calculate on % COO more troops
from Western Virginia, Whsre there will be
no more use for them this winter, thus swell
ling this grand division of the army to one
hundred thousand men. Nashville, it is now
palpable, is to be the fret object of attack of
Gen. BuelPs command, and that it will be
successful can hardly be doubted. Kentucky
will be redeemed from the tramp of armed
invaders, and Nashville having been taken,
Memphis will be invested On that side: while
Gen. Halleck's forces will be sent forward by
water and land, and with concentrated at
taal- n Iza If hot oft
highway to New Orleans. What amount
of force Gen. Halleck will put into the field
on this line, it is not necessary to state with
any particularly. 1t is enough that it will
answer all purposes. The feet to be used in
this movement will soon be ready and con-
centrated at Cairo, and then we may look
ont for stirring work in the rebellious States
The idea that there is to be no winter cam.
paigu is fallacious one, and as our men
are better equipped, better clothed, better
fed, and quite as willing to do battle as the
badly clothed, badly fed, badly paid soldiers
OF the rebel army, they would hardly consent
to remain inactive for a whole winter. They
want this war ever, and the exhibition of
their power and their earnestness is the sur
est way to accomplish it. If, as the telegraph
advises US, the seat of the general govern
ment is to be removed from Richmond to
Nashville, it would be well for the rebels to
calculate whether that city will not be in the
hands or the Unionists before their archives
can be transported thither. It is very likely
to happen"
Gen. Buells whole army, on the line of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad above
Bowling Green, cannot be over sixty thou
sand men at the highest estimate. But as
suggested by the Republican, it is very proba-
bic that Rosencranz's division may be with
drawn from Western Virginia and swell this
force to eighty-fiVe thousand strong Six
regiments lave already been transferred from
there to Louisville, and others, we think,
will soon follow. The campaign OF Resen-
cranz in the Panhandle portion of the Old
Dominion has been empty OF any practical
results any way. He has marched and coun-
termarched, advanced and retreated so fire.
quently, and in so many directions, that it
has been a sheer matter of guess-work for his
own friends to keep posted as TO his where
abouts. AS the winter is now approaching
and the bleak mountains upon which his hun
cry hordes are ensconced, commence to be
tinged upon their lofty tops with white coats
of SHOW, it is not surprising that the complete
evacuation of Western Virginia should be
determined on as a measure of absolute and
urgent necessity. This point settled, and
their subsequent transfer to Kentucky, the
present seat OF war, is a reasonable probable
ity.
These facts strengthen US in the conviction
expressed several days since, that the enemy
will advance in two columns as nearly at
the same time as is practicable. The object
of this will be to keep our divisions at Bow
ling Green and Columbus from sending re.
Inducements to the support of each other in
case Of emergency. The design is an inge-
NOUS one, but its execution will require an
overwhelming force. The enemy are cogni.
zant of this, and are by their conduct &C
knoWledging to-day the truth of the opinion
expressed month since by Adj.-Gen. Thorn
as, that Kentucky cannot be subjugated with
less than 100000 men. This force they are
seeking to concentrate in two equal col INNS
for the successful prosecution of the Ken
lucky campaign. In the face of these tre-
mendous Preparations, whose enOTmity pre-
cludes the possibility Of coneealment, it may
be important for the Richmond authorities to
consider the propriety of increasing our for 4
ces in the West in a corresponding proper
ton.
Whether troops can be spared beat from
Western Virginia, in case RosESCRANZ's re-
moval, or from the Army Of the Potomac,
which is superior to MCCLELLAN's by at
least $4,000, is q question for them to deter
mine. It is frequently asserted, We fear with
toe much color Of truth, that the Admins
tration has become so much engrossed IN mil
itary movements at Manassas, as to overlook,
in a measure, the tremendous import oftkose
now TRANSPORTING in the West. BEAUREGARD
and JOHNSTON have 100, 900 men to meet 80
600 under MCCLELLAN, while our armey in
Kentucky, unless reinforced, will be COM
PEELED probably to fight the unequal odds
of two to one. This may all be well enough,