The New York herald., 1862-08-21
Important Military Movements Nortl
and south.

Important Military Movements North
and south.
We have intelligence of most important mill
tary movements throughout the North and South
According to information received from all the
loyal States, regiments are being everywhere
organized. under the new call Of the President,
with zeal and rapidity, and of the best fighting
material that the country can produce. These
regiments are being pushed forward to the seat
of war with great vigor and energy; and &C
counts from Washington state that the scenes Of
last year, of troops pouring by thousands into
the national capital, are now being re-enacted,
with this difference that, although the material
of the soldiers oflast year was so fine and 80 ex
cellent, yet the experience of the last eighteen
months, in giving q military cast to the people
OF the North, has been such that the troops now
going to the wars are even more soldierly in ap-
pearance than those who preceded them. We
shall soon have million and quarter of men
in the field, and when the new recruits and
million Of veterans who have stood the brunt
and the fire of war, they will become excellent
soldiers.
Now, these movements are important and in
teresting, but they are known to all of US; but
the movements of the rebel armies of the South
are not so patent except to few, who make it
their business to pursue such information.
Since the mastery retrograde movement of
General Mcclellan from the peninsula, where
he removed an army Of one hundred thousand
mon, with all its war noteriel in the most splen-
did style, the greatest activity has prevailed In
the rebel army, not only at Richmond, but all
along their line Of defence, extending out to Chata
nooga; and the fact that McClellan's army, in
its movement down the peninsula from Harri-
sons Landing, was not molestsd many way,
clearly indicates that the rebels are massing
their troops to the north and northwest of Rich
mond, threatening Gen. Pope, and even Wash
ington itself. There is no doubt from the tactics
of the rebel commanders, and from information
given elsewhere in this mornings paper, that
they have now in front of Pope not less than q
quarter of q million Of men, extending all
along the line of the Rapidsn and Rappahan-
nook and the Virginia Central Railroad; and
the kilograms from Nashville, received ysster-
day afternoon, bring US repetition of the re-
port of the evacuation of Chattanooga, which
has 80 long been threatened by General Buell.
The rebels are moving towards Knoxville and
Richmond from that extreme point; so that,
within very short period Of time, We may ex-
pect to see concentrated in Virginia, between
Richmond and Washington, and along the line
from Cumberland Gap to Port Royal, below
fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock, an
army Of three to four hundred thousand rebel
soldiers.
Our readers will recollect that we published,
Immediately after the evacuation of Yorktown,
very significant article from one of the Rich
mond papers, foreshadowing all the movements
movements they are now making on the line Of
the Rappahannock and Rapidan, and as far west
as Cumberland Gap. Now, from the news we
have of the movements Of the rebel Richmond
army, under Lee, and of Bragg's army, at Chat
tanooga, it appears that they are now endeavor-
ing to carry out the programme indicated by
the Richmond paper In May last
In view of these important movements and
events it is fortunate for US that we are collect
ing an army OF a million and quarter Of men
to be Immediately put into the field. And, al
though the rebels may threaten certain points,
and cause some temporary alarm in the public
mind, yet the whole programme of the admin.
stration is so perfect that, If it be but properly
carried out, il must result In the most compile to
and triumphant success Of the Union cause.
Cukna m por rrrclr TpEAs IN ENGLAND The