, 1862-09-05
Incompetent Generalization Carlos
Bueu
FFfDn the N Y World

The only 1ati3n8! doubt HAT exists respect
1ng the issue of the approaching campaigns,
cones from the extraordinary determination
OF tue government not to prJit by experience
in al! its disposal Of high commands. 1t ia
universally conceded that the military opera
tIons Of the last twelVemonth-esti mated
without reference to what has been done BIZ
the EavJ-haTe, in their ret results, proved
we'll nigh complete failure. Tnere has b=en
acisbrepoition b.tween the means furnished
ard The results achieved that fills every loyal
heart with pain and Indignation. Tie same
generals are kept at the head of the new
movements. There has been some slif.iag
Of POS csiti~ns, bnt they are still confined to the
falne circle Of men. Out Of all our hundreds
Of colonies and hrigudieEs, not solitary indi-
Vidual has bounded to greatness. We fad
such instances in every OF scr great war on
the page Of history. The men who have that
com mpination Of faculties which fits them for
successful military command, have early
showed themselves in ali such conflicts. Tae
year has put two new m5n ID marked pro:ni-
hence among the rebels-Sterliug Price and
"Stonewsn' Jackton- But the great loyal
armies have to trust their late solely to the
same old set. The year has not only been
rife With disaster to them, but what
is even worse, it has done ab-
so1utely nothing for them in the
great matter OF raising up new leaders. Our
magnificent armies are agaiu to be put in the
charge Ut msD, some Of whom have been Is
is possible for human conduct to prove any
thing, What wonder then is there, that not
ysi:EstaIding our matchicSs and mult:tudinous
Eoldierg, the future is regarded with the appre-
b. nsioo. 'Evs.1 thing in life is pro olen,,"
said Bnnapalte - ''it is only By what IL kno en
that We can come at what is unknown" It
known that mang Of these commanders in the
past ; ear have brought dishonor upon the
arms which they controlled; ho r can the up-
kDoWn coullng year be Tecsoned on with cou-
fiGtnce when these same commanders have
the Disposal Of its fortunes
Take, for instance, oEe of the old set who is
still in command OF the most import ant de-
pa1tu1ent Of the West-Don Catlos Buell., who
commenced Lis western career by making =
snesch to his soldirrs in which he said that
tsGe Gid not Know what the war was tor''-
then settled himself down irac:iycIs before
Bowling Green for .toNr months, when, as it WIS
! afterwards proved, be hal four tiues the force
| Of tie enemy, aud finally permitted that enc
| my to leave the position without the loss Of a
i man, OR q gun, or pound of subsistence
Nashville 10 be destroyed bT the ene-
my because he did not choase to give
commodore .Fcote leave 10 proceed there
| with his gunboats directly after the fall of
Donelson-then fingered in the neighboThood
OF Nashville unt,l the enemy had amplest
time to establish new lines OF operation. and
| until Sidney Johnston had, without 1nplesta-
ton. formed junction with Beauregard, a
movement which, as Johnston himself said il
his letter afterwards published, %t was deem
ed too hazardous by the most experienced
members Of my staff, but, in my riew, the Oh
jcct warranted the F:sk''-then marched at
| li-urc to support Grant, whom he knew wa:
| in most critical position, taking ten days t6
7,.arch eiqhtytaoo miles, and arriving only When
Grant wus already wle1nsed in blood-and
ever since, as if exhausted BY that effort, has
been lying motionless, or displaying his only
emery in keeplDg his subordinates
trcm relieving East Tennessee, whost
continual snbjcction, up to tht
present dey, to the llatcd rebel rule has beer
ablae1ing shame to the federal power. Wher
Chattar ooga, which commands that l1-fatei
teEion on the south, nigh lastly have hee1
taken and kent i'll our possession, he KEEP
aloof from it; and it vas only after the re
peated solicitations Of Gen. Morgan. which a
first ". re fatty denied, that this enterprlsin!
officer was finally allowed to make The move
1utnt which resulted in the CAPTURE Of Gun
te,iand Gap, the gateway of East Tennessee
} Oh The Dcr;b. The whole history Of Buell.
: department for the last four month has beef
but Z tory Of reb-l raids and federal surren
: ! 1ers. Il is said that he has at last actual
/ abandoned tha base Of the Memphis an
; Charleston Railroad, line to us Of the utn Is
importance. Whether tt.ls be go or not, it
, certain that the public so much dlstrusts hlr
: as to be prepared Tor hearing on any day
! any disaster Of any magnitude within the di:
! trict he processes TO manage.