Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-27
Interesting from the West--Lee Gone
10 JOin EIOYd-.. Che situation.

The War Department. has received the off
cial report OF Gen. LEE, giving detailed &C
| count of his plan of operations on the Cheat
Mountain frontier, and of the recent failure
| Of the strategic movement against the enc
| my's position. The details of the report
which is very full, accompanied by maps
! DC, are, of course, not of nature to be
communicated, at this time, to the public.
Ii appears from the Statements of the re-
port that the plan of operations WAS di-con
certed bv the failure of The column led by
Gen. Jackson to attack the enemy's position
| on the Cheat Mountain. Gen. jackson had
made the Reconnaissance hims If, but on
reaching the enemy's position, found him de-
feud d by stockade fort. Large quantities
of timber had been felle1, and were so inter,
locked that, it is said, it would have taken
our men several hours TO have climbed thro',
even If there had been no enemy on the other
side to resist the attack. Tue column of Gen.
Jackson Was withdrawn N the face of the
likelihood OF such wholesale slaughter of bis
force, and tho movements of Gen. Lee. which
We're intended to be simultaneous in their re-
suits with the attack, entirely disconnected.
The plan OF operations is given in the re-
port of Gen. Lee fully by the aid of maps,
and is>said, by military men, to have been
the entire campaign. As it has been disap-
pointed, it will be useless to Canvass It's
merits.
Other important Intelligence of a later date
has been received from the West.
The Intelligence is positive that Gen. Lee
had left the Valley Mountain end was on his
way to Din Gen. Floyd. This movement, of
which we have distinct advices, is the inter-
esJing poiut at PRESENT in the complication in
the West, and shows decided change in the
campaign. Our forces in the West have hiI n
N ann d1at I'D n. ANN oil 10
we must cOnftss-in separate divisions, and
their concentration promises ut least some
thing more decisive than has yet occurred.
News has also reached the Government
that the euemy at Cheat Mountain have been
reinforced by three OHIO regiments
Gen. Floyd, together with Wise's Legion,
are 10 urgent necessity for endorsements.
An officer of Geg. Floyds Command. who
has arrived ia this city with Intelligence some
days later than last reports, advises US iD
the strongest terms of the necessity of i'm
mediate reinforcements. The feeling in the
West was one OF growing dissatisfaction. in
view OF the constant occurrence of sending
troops to Manassas and the Peninsula, in con-
trast with the spariDg and feeble reinforce
ments sent to the seat of war in Western Vir-
ginia.
At last accounts two regiments, from
Georgia aud North Carolina, had arrived
out, to join Gen. Floyd's command. Neither
was full. many OF their men having been
Frustrated with sickness along the route.
Gen. Floyd's camp was at Meadow Bluff.
about sixteen miles west of Lewisburg.
Wise was in the neighborhood, in a strong
position on the top of the Sewell Mountain.
The masterl sand well-conducted retreat of
General Floyd had enabled him to take
position to guard the Wilderness road, con-
meeting near Meadow Bluff with the Lewis
burg pike.
The roads were very bad; but our means
of transportation are said to be abundant
Lees reported movement to join our forces
on the Gduley line will have to be made over
distance of more than one hundred miles,
even if uninterrupted.