The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-31
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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IMPORTANT OPERATIONS AT THE wpsr.
lrrom the Richmond Examiner oct. 1901
The campaign Of General Bragg in
Tennessee and Kentucky, approaches It's
conclusion, and the military riddles with
which he and General Buell. have puzzled
the world, and, perhaps, themselves also.
must shortly receive some sort Of solu.
ton. As Van Dorm has had his say at
Corinth, and as Bragg and Buell. have
fought the decisive action at Perryville,
there is no longer a reason for silence on
the past facts Of their operations
Those who have been near The scene
Of action, all ceneur in the statement
that Bragg might have crushed Buell. IN a
general action at any time since he LEFT 1u-
pello. BY concentrating the forces under
Kirby Smith, Marshall, Van Dorm and
Stevenson, he could have often been tho
superior of Buell. in numbers. But he
preferred the plan Of manouvering by
detaehments; TO take possession of both
Kentucky and Tennessee without q gen.
eral action; apparently aiming to cut
| Buell. off from his base Of operations.
This mode of warfare actually did give
him possession Of the larger part of both
these States, and resulted in race be-
tween Buell. and himself for the Occupa-
ton Of Louisville. Buell. beat him IN the
race, and got there ttgenty- four hours ahead of
our troops, This event seems to have
given the Federal commander the van
tage ground, by placing him in short
communication with his reserves and |
reinforcemerts. That part of the cam
paign which depended upon extensive |
man9uvers appears 20 have ended with |
BuelPs occupation Of Louisville, and the |
only thing remaining are trials Of |
strength in the field We have seen the |
first of these issues at Corinth. The
wing of the army under General Van
Dorm was no longer superior, or even
equal, to the consolidated Federal |
eral force under Rosecrans, and though
the battle seems to have been fought with
as 'much valor as any other an Dorm was
badly beaten. The readers of yester-
days Examiner know that a far more
important trial of strength has been
made by the two chief commanders at
Perryville IL takes five days 10 reach
the telegraph at Knoxville from that
place, and therefore it should occasion no
surprise that the first intimatiOn of so
great an event should come TO us through
the press of New York and Philadelphia.
We published on yesterday all theinfOr-
nation on the subject afforded by those
sources of intelligence, and il may be
some days before anything more of the
matter will be known But from those
statements il appears quite certain that
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fight was with the Confederate army. So
Il was, alas at Shiloh, and so, too, at
JOrinth. Letu trust that Perryville will !
not be repetition of those delusiye VIC !
tories. The same journals which tell Of ,
bur advantages on the first day of the !
Eight, also state that Buell. had received 4
arge reinforeements at the end of il; and
ne had sufficient experience of thatman's
DertinaciOus character to be quite sure he
did not, under the circumstances, aban-
Ion the contest On the other hand, we
are informed, with some authority, that
Kirby Smith would certainly reach the
lcene of action in time to support his
.hief. But here the liiile light at our
command disappears, and we must await 4
With painful anxiety the slow approach
If couriers from our own side
If General Bragg is sufficiently for
innate, and able to gain a decisive vic
DRY at Perryyille, the result will be
Possession of Louisville
would be aprobabiy consequence But an =
occupation Of two thirds of
kentucky, during several months TO come y
would be certain; and with that Occu- X
'atiOn, access TO unlimited stores of pro- a
'isiOns, both in grain and meat. Norris Il
here any reason why the next further Ct
tep in advance should not be taken, 10 :
capture of Cincinnati--an event g.
which would place the remaining third
# Kentucky at our mercy, and inilict a
low upon The enemy quite equal to what {
be loss of New Orleans was to us.
But these speculations, however agree
bile, may not with prudence be INDUCED =
90 far. The events Of the campaign in
be West, up to this point, give us more
easOn for anxiety than confidence. II
-ppears very probable that Bragg was
oiled by Buell. in his general vancouver,
While 10 is quito certain that Van Dorm, W
lespite his GLORIOUS dispatch Of the first l
lay, was Worsted by ROsecrans in the n
at Oorinth These are rea- a
onable grounds for anxiety.
THE REBEL TREASURY DEPARTMENT..
The most the public heard about the
Treasury Department during the recent
ession of Congress, was a list Of replies
4 the Secretary TO the repeated resolu-
ions demanding explanations Of the ex- q
raordinary delays In the different =
ranches Of his Department II appear .
d that the sodiers could not be paid, ?
inless at intervals Of five or six months, 4
because The Secretary could not make .
money fast enough; and the excuse was
hat the Secretary had sent of all the en- I
Taying apparatus Of the Department 20
Columbia, South Carolina, at the time the
4ovoruuaent was f4aokincs mn ffa frana a. ?