Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-22


Coaid ksUe Prsuenfed LEES Escape % Rieh
mend-.Subirneiy Ridiculous Spectacle Of ZOO
900 Union Troops Scattered 20 The -Four Wiads
wAsHIxorox. November Is.
When the history Of this Administration comes
20 be written land IL riH be writfeuY Il will be
seen that there have been two periods when the
war was particularly msmanaged One was
when Mr. Lincoln undertook to manage il him
self, commencing by the proclamation Of his silly
and bomoastic .'Wsr Orders" The other has
been during the whole Of the last four months.
under the management Of the present General.
in Chief. During the first period the country
witnessed the brilliant episode of the Peninsula
campaign: a campaign, the fruits OF which were
snatehej away by the wretched imbecity and
iuesoluton which controlled the head Of the army
at Washington just az the moment when they
were within NcClellan's grasp.
Gen Haleck's management Of the army could
not be worse than that. but it Is nearly as bad
By sending Pope 10 take Richmond by a route
which his military education ought to have taught
him is impi acticabe, he was the primary cause
Of the defeat Of Pope's army. and of placing the
capital in that imminent pc I'll from which Nc
Clellan alone extricated it. 1t. instead of doing
this, he bad sent POpe's army down to Harrison =
Landing TO reinforce Mcclellan. the rebels would
not have dared 20 send a single regiment towards
Washington. while Mcclellan, reinforced by
Pope's troops, would have taken Richmond and
ended the When the full history OF this
war comes to be written, these facts will be
made manifest.
With the $4,000 troops that have been at his
disposal ever since the battle of Antetam. what
has Gen. sHalIeck donef Literally nothing. A
second time he had the opportunity of aunihilat-
ing the whole rebel army and ending the war;
and second time he permitted the opportunity
to slip from him. HOwG Take the map and see
After the battle of Aniietam, Lee marched his
army between Harpers Ferry and Winchester
west of the Shenandoah, l4O miles from Rich
mond in n straight line but 10 miles from Rich
mond by the roads. There were no troops OF
any consequence between him and Richmond
The brave Sigel was at Centerville. From Cen
tervilIe, nearly due west, there runs an excellent
road, nj that time and for weeks afterwards In
splendid order, through Warrenton, the
Blue Ridge, through Luray, across { ri of the
Shenandoah To New Market 90 miles from Cen
tervile. Admitting that Gen. Mcclellan had
100000 troops, what was there TO prevent Gen
Halleck from sending another 100 900 out of th.
500. 600 ut his disposal, to New Market over this
route scarcely four days marchr Positivel,
nothing. Between this force the south anC
McC.elans army on the north. Lee would hav,
been ground To powder surely the grain i
ground between the upper and the neither mill
stone Then indeed Lee could not have escaped
To Richmond.
But Gen. Halleck cauld not see this. He waiteC
till October. By that time Lee had built hi
three roads to Richmond. had opened his com
munications and lines of retreat. and was read,
10 fight Mcclellan, or TO run. as he deeme mos
expedient Then, early in October Halleck or
dered Mcclellan to advance on Lee and fight him
| (Remember that Mcclellan had lost Il 900 of hi
best troops nj Antie,am and South Mountain. ans
that he had been necessarily calling both for re
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destitute soldiers And remember that Gen
Grfins division is STILL without these articles
in this bitter cold weather. He KNEW, for IN
had diScernment, that no General could FORCE Lee
to fight. When the advance took place. Lee iii,
exactly what any General who knows his bushes
would have done. He maneuvered his army il
such way to draw the enemy far ava,
from his base, and rs near to his OWL, as possible
/ have shown that il had been in Gen Haleck'
power to have prevented him from doing
Well, what has he done with the 500 ,00
troops admitting that Burnside has 300 900
Mitchell failed at Savannah for want of troops
Foster has just now made big failure in Nortl
Carolina for want of troops Nothing can b.
! done at New Orleans for want of troops Buel
conducted the campaign in Kentucky admirably
in spite of the sneers of his enemies He drov
Bragg's army out of the State, and would hav
sent "a strong column around his flank to inter
cept him long before he reached tine Cumberlan
Gap, but--for want of troops; Knoxville, wher
the rebels are turning out cannon and shells i
vast quantities, might have been IN our posses
sion months ago. but-for want of troops.
Where, then. the troops? Where have the
been sent To. and what they doing? Abov
all. what have they done?
They erisf. Be of that When Genera
Halleck was placed in command. there wer
900 men on the rolls, but of these onl
500 900 we're effective There are now on IN
rolls 10000 electives, all drawing their pay
Where are they and what are they doing? Tn
secret be told in a word They scattere
and frttered away just where there is no nee
for them. and there has been no concentration 10
great purposes Gen Haleck may understan
the art of war. but the results of his campaign.
compared with the enormous means at his dspc
SAL do not Indicate that fact. Y.