The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-11
What shs NsY,h Thinks Of she War thus

What the Nsrsh Thinks Of she War thua
Tho Cincinnati Daily CommeTciai presents
the following coup dea of the military situa.
ton At the present moment. It should serve
to comfort impatient and desponding guid.
nuncs:
ergetic, and efficient in the work Of convert.
ing the crude masses of volunteers into dis.
ciplined soldiers, and thus preparing in the
camps for successes in the field, il General
Mcclellan. We do not claim for him the
exclusive credit of the marked and mOmen.
tous improvement OF our armies but his
has been the highest place, ami there IL n G
reason it doubt that he has performed his
performed tn cir duty, but not ON ss wide a
fielo, and not under the pressure Of such tire.
mendous responsibilities as have devOived
upon him.
disbanding in the face of the Bull Nun disas.
ter; cowardly peace men lifting their voices
in the N Orth; the depar tmeDt o. Missouri in
confusion, Lyon dead, and the guerillas
swarming over the State; Kentucky was reel.
ing ,inder the shoe of sec 'sson victory and
torn by the contentious between those whose
doctrines were the teachings OF Clay and
those who were the followers Of Calhoun; the
city OF Washington was menaced by pow
ertul army, y ushed with victory, and infuria
ted with the lust Of cong est, and passion
for revenge, and the blockade was far less
efficient than 1t should Be 10 strangle our
enemies and command the respect of foreign
powers Now, the safety of WASHINGTON has
vanced from defensive to an aggressive po.
sition, and the brief but destr uc tive encoun.
ter at Drainsvtlle has taught the enemy pru.
dence in their maLRuvres.
The victories at Hatteras and Port Rayal
have closed to the enemy and opened to US
the sounds and channels Of the Carolina
coast, tightening the blockade by securing
In our power waters wonderfully adapted 10
smuggling. Our forces at Ship Island have
cut of the rebel communication by water
from Mobile tO.New Orleans. In Missouri
the rebels are no longer in fOrca, except In
the extreme southern counties of the State,
and their maraniing bands are constantly
snapped up by our movable columns. We
have an immense and well appointed army
in Kentucky, and the soil of tina. State has
been dark AID bloody ground ir deed to the
rebels who have invaded it. In no considera.
Die sktrmlsh in that State have the rebels
been snccSssful, and their centre is broken
oy a splendid Union victory, which practi.
cally annlhilates a whole division Of theiI
army. The rebels have been entirely foiled
IN endeavoring to wrest Western Virgins
from the United States troops General Lei
retired In despair from 0reenbrier, and Gen
Floyd ran away from Cotton Mountain.
TWO rebel raids into Eastern Kentucky
have beer n ct and repulsed, and at last &C.
cou Is Humphre Marshall, and his disc ON
fitted followers. utterly demoralised, were
running through Pound Gap An army O
near twenty thousand men, under Genera
Lander, looks up the Valley Of Virginia to
ward winchester. The gun boat fleet e
" iro is we'll advanced, and there will be M
difficulty, presently, when Gen Halleck pa
cities Missouri, In starting The long talked
of Mississippi expedition by land and river
In proportions commensurate with the con
quests expected OF it. On the Western from
tier, also, an expedition that will be thirt,
thousand strong is being organized, witt
which 1t is designed to penetrate from Kan
sas to the Cult, and leave no secessionism IL
it's path. And throughout the North, from
Maine to Minnesota, are tens Of thousands O
volunteers in camps of instruction, formin
an immense reserve, ready to be poured alon
the rivers and railroads, and the seacoast. +
repair any disaster or back up any advance