Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-11-18
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81 .--- From tho Progress J. f-'t,'
Gen. Bragg, his Officers and the PTesident'

..i from tho Progress e J.
Gen. Bragg, his Officers aud the PRESIDENT
few months ago the Richmond Enquirer was the Pc
culiar and special champion of Mr. Davis NortnOsr'
cline paper dared murur wordsof complains as 70 me
uny Too often exercised by suborduaes the at
onoe raised the cry of treason against the gvetBment
say word against the President was caai 9nehce san
ia offender was registered upon the BLACK iist
for The eyes Of the EaQvtrs and other part.sus The
KIM could do no wrong" Re have always given Hr.
Davis credit for pure motives and GRATED pstso on;ns
pursued in the management of the war But the EnY4r
has ssfallen from grace tbs Snne' has got the "nsde
track !" aud become the -.organ' and Mr. DAVIS y no
longer The ntabc immaculate ruler that ne nas oeen
.repTesented-by the Enquirer .-,
Ne have BEEN au ad,nirer Of what supposed to be
sodery qualities in General but we may have oeen
mstens yet willing to join in the hue and cry
against ham without further and more satisfactory evidence
q his untness tor command Eut if the following e.te,
which appears in the Eaqarer De true and It IS @
for BY that paper is evident that Gen. Bragg and MS
Lieutenant Generals should be separated If be remains
where hes they should be to some other
aud if they are remain with their present commands
thsn Gen Bragg should give acceptable to
the division and corps commanders OF the army. AND
such change not made will render the army ON which
60 much depends efficient President DAVIS, and no one
NEAR CHATTANOOGA. Oct 81.
Isend you an extract from Atlanta paper, which
gives you idea but only faint of the deporable
condition of affairs out here in the hope that you may be
able draw from it some facts which may aid you In VIZ
ting upon the subject. wish that could truly picture
what the cost to the country has been BY the OF
this department being in the hands of General Bragg of
opportunities upon opportunities lie has to hold
frat Kentucky then Tennessee and lastly to improve and
pluck the fruits of the victory OF Chickamauga which
Longstreet won for him.
When Longstreet took command, on Sunday morning.
the 9h of the LEFT wing of the army, he found arranged
and every thing in Confusion Generally. The position
chosen the Sight by Glen Bragg most unfavorabe
in OF epulse and altogether in favor Of the enemy
AZ I.-;,. k<onl
Dat it eleven o'clock before it opened and then
rolled along until the left took up In very short time,
to General Braggs own words thu right was dsas
$ros!y repulsed and had fight in it aud Longsreet
had to fgit the enemy entirely alone After some hours
of hard fighting he drove him in the widest confusion from
every position took from thirty to forty pieces Of artillery,
thousands Of prisoners aud converted their army into
terrified flying mob. 1t then he saw by forward
movement of the whole army that Gen. Rosecrans whole
force could be captured in w.nty hours and that oh.
stace between and the Ohio and (perhaps peace.
He therefore sent word Wheeler who was his left,
to dash forward between Chattanooga and the enemy ard
cut him to pieces but just Wheeler about to exc.
cute this movement he received order from Gen. Bragg
directing him to pick up and sraggers Lcngsreet
had not heard from Bragg but during tho day, and
then it to say he was beaten the right He
sent 10 beg him to advance but the Generalnchief de-
cned doing Then council Of generals enreated him
to Knoxville cut off Burnside. turn Rpsecrans at
Nashville and go into Kentucky. He consented to tho
move; the Troops put in notion but after marching
ten miles he recalled the army without explanation his
ieutenants aud placed it. w.hout object achieve,
before this place. where sickness and deseron are doing
more than the enemy hope for Dssats and dcfec
ton awIy Prevalent ard hesitates from the
highest 10 the lowest to speak of their contempt for the
commander. We all hoped that surely Mr. Davis would
the danger which threatening the country by the
inauty Of Bragg, and his arrival was hailed with joy lie
did perceive the intense feeling against him. aud called
The corps commanders to meet Bragg and himself head
quarters. When they had assembled he began with Gen.
Isngstreet and asked what he thought Of Nun Gene
raj and of his conduct in this fight Gen Longstreet
piled that he had Bragg half hour the fed
before he he not the to command army,
and particularly this army it then situated that
his disposition of troops horrible aud that his tao
tics wretched that he had not the least confidence
in him. and begged that if he removed that the
President would send him Longstreet back Virginia
lie took down the map and showed how KOsecrans
posed himself by turning Bragg, who with concentrated
enemy whose army divided into three portions
seventy miles apart AID unable to reinforce each other
cept single mountain road which Bragg could always
hold. The other Generals replied il the manner, all
saying that they bad not the least confidence in him. and
all asked to be relieved. D. II. Hill sud among other
thipgs that he personal coward Mr. Davis said he
greved hear this deeply grieved-and that is all
he has said DONE Bragg is still in command; the
for the campaign is passed. the enemy will hold Chat
tanooga base for spring operations. East Ten
with its ntre and Middle Tennessee with its
Of he lost to US; currency is being
circulated in fewer square miles and with all this Pha-
rOah hardens bis heart aud will not let the people co.
We have bad in the lest three weeks even opportunities
for striking the enemy terrible blow by moving Ste
Senson their depot and cutting off Chattanooga Bragg
took two weeks to think of the plan and the
the enemy thirty thousand there and fortified it,