Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-11-29
Northern view Of Esursrside's situation.

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Speeisl Correspondence Of the Chicago Times
W4sHTEGTON, November lS.-AlthoUgh the.
telegraph al this point has not been allowed to
transmit the fact it is nevertheless doubtless
known to you ere this that General Burnside has
changed his base and swung the army Of the
Potomac entirely around from the banks Of he
Rsppabgnnock 60 that Of the Potomac Tke
necessities which have compelled this change
belong to the purely strategic. To cross the
Rsppahannock and push the enemy to the Rap
idan would leave a rear open Of some seventy
miles slmost entirely unprotected, end with q
road running through it with a single track, IN
able 20 furnish the compliment of supplies for
the army, sud liable at any moment to be de-
sjrayed by cavalry raids Of the enemy. Be
sides, this was the long route to Richmond
From WsrreutOn TO the rebel capital, via Cor
donsville, it is one bundled and thirteen miles,
while Che route from Frsderieksburgv gvis Hanover
Court House (wheTe MCClailan's right rested last
summer is bu rs miles, with water and rail com
municati9n fully abie to insure snppi res At tho
army's base a Fredericksburg. In tgct this is
the original Toute over which General Mcclellan
desired to follow the enemy's retreat from Ma
nassss, with 2 diveriiug column on the PENN
sula bat in which he was OverUied by these
insidious prompt1es of power thst, IN one wsy
or another, hsmpeTed him from his first great
advance TO the day Of his removal
As bridges must be built at fredericksburg,
and wharves, erected on the Pstomsc, at Aqua
Creek. some delay VIII be occasioned by this
ehsDge yet such is the tremendous energy being
put forth in every department that good results
may be aniicipstad at an early day The De-
partment has already made great reform in its
transportation. 30 sooner had Gen Mcclellan
been depcsed than new orders were issued here,
regulating the transportation Of supplies and
furnishing the new commander with every ia
cilfty ia which his predecessor hzd been deficient
because Of the slow details Of Ied-taPeism. With
this state of things the army cannot be much
delayed In moving toward Rchnoad It's FIRST
halt will probably ba on the North Anna liver
fifteen or twenty miles southwest Of Fretericks-
burg. and on the west bauk Of which the rebel
srmy will be located SIS its first defensive line,
This crossed perhaps with battle, aud another
stand viii evidently be made On the South Anna
river, several miles beyond These two streams
unite and form the PamunEey, on which Cen
Mcclellan was located on the Peninsula Bat
the country from the Rsppahanpock to r ch
mond has none Of those strong defensive char
actsrisiics of the Gordonsvilie route, which Pore
did not succeed ia overcoming and which Burn
side deems impolitic to attack.
The feeling in the army for q movement is
very great The gloom which followed The re-
mOval Of Mcclellan hsd added TO it the results
of inaotion. On Sunday Burnside sent in here
one thousand sick from BIS various divisions,
and the merest prospect of Virginia rains and
mud to be followed by winter quarters, foretod
the coming Of a disease which the soldier could
not resist. An officer happily expressed the
sentiment Of the rank aud file over Gen. McClel
lan's removal, when be said to me, Il was
ike d-n big funeral one day, and then it was
all over"