The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-24
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OUR ARMY IN MIDpEE TENNESSEE.
NEAF THE FRowT, Feb l6 1868.
From CIV Own cOrespondsntl
THE "FRoNT"
The geographical character of The campaigs
in Middle Tennessee ia best described by .
conparsOn with that which rolled round tho
Valley sf Virginia during the Spring Of 60
TSrn yonr coniompativ eye back upon that
The features Of country, the map Of opera.
tons, and the extensive. versatile and varying
line Of action, cut mp into . species Of ginglr
cambat, all baar certain relation to the
scenes and ovents conducted by Lee and Jack
son ever corn-feld and meadow in the Old
Dominion and the picture Of the one gives
pretty disiinct likeness Of The other Would
the results were eqqaly akinl y A.
the present moment cur "front" faces tha enc.
my in several directions. Although this has
heen said before, will repeat It. Let me
take sweeping review Of the Estimation. ~
What ] shall Say will not be indecent. for nv
remarks will be general, and arc known to tho
enemy quite aa well an to me, ard perhaps
| Thy sad eIpesieBce) little better. We look
nroH him full in the face from the level lands
of Bedford County and our left centre in and
arourd the pleasant village Of Shelbyvilo.--
ONr cavalry horses feed quietly, sometimes AZ
Columbia. on the far lcft, sometimea in Dixon
county. and sometimes neigh ms low down as
franklin, within eighteen miles Of Nash, ille
and again circlins the shoals Of Harpeth. or
the Cumberland worse terror 10 the trans.
perts Of the enemy, than their gun.bnats ussd
IL be 10 rs. Stretching awag to the rirbt
across Tho coifonpatohea, corn vows and no
tata ridges Of Rutherford and Wilaon and Won
arriye At length at MoMinnviIlo. Here Won
will find Joha Morgan aN before told Won
4 that 10 to aav, when he is at home. for horo ho
iand Mra. NJ make their headquarters Re-
low him forty miles ia Murfreeaboo but an
lopen country falls upon his right, which he
has to guard. as well "a harass tho enemy IN
front Woodbury., twenty miles het%eer
F, there and Murfressboro, and Reedyville
eight miles farther are the ouiposts to hi
command. From Tulahoma. the actual cen
ire Of the nrmy, a bird = eye view is often oh
tsincd Of tho movements Of the enemy ~
paper for here;as you know, the knowing
ing ones most do congregate. The writer I,
at present, therefore one Of the saraas Of Tul
laholna!
4 ruLLAHoMA Ho
Seeing that ihia is point Of IN much con
sequence--that Gen Bragg thinks so well o
it, that he often pays Il vieit--ihat pevera
very distinguished Of Gen Baggs mil'a-y
relations friends and comrades.in arms actnall
inhabit ii--ond above all, seeing that Il is un
dor my own observance az this moment. ant
that am obliged to remain hero bit, can
do better ihan give you pen and ink, nay,
/ dim load pencil sketch Of III
shocking place; q mean for gentleman
A dismal, melancholy depot station place
. for bats 10 0y, and owle to hoot. such, such
10 Tullahoma Take trip into Pnrgatory. b.
way Of 'Semm's hole, !" and pSy flying visi
10 Corinth, Mississippi; orreturn, and YOU ma,
got some notion Of it, nothing else will euffce
, language, woful imprcoativo or descriptive
fails altogether, few scaitored and squali,
ionementa Ccrammod, jammed and damne,
worse than the black hole Of Calcutta. MD
Macauloy !; mud up 70 the eyes nor havin,
stone, nor curb black jacks around you al
q sbCut vow; and loadeu, ever rainy sky aboy
I yoni
Nothing to do hut ca. and Quarrel. w
o hays fighting matchse, and then for vsriety
} we have eating matchss remarkable even
Q (of this iusiraiivc) occurred, no later tha
!. yssterday afternoon. When publish ray mex
/ novel l'The Bloody CenscrptJ mean 10 i
> ssrt II, as a chapter. under ,hs Hmal-csp car
ton Of
a "sAfr1re ANp egER hkrcHrs'
after the manner of my little aai-deluyia
/. friends, wsbsisr and hayne. Tho conic'
:. was quite equal to toe celebrated Interview
' between thsso two indivilaals, and ,he set
4 stance ie briefly as iollt%ss--
i A pair Of prvaieu Of the ----- Tenneaats, har
a cruags. and ono Of them alss newly Arriv
Z "a box Of provisions "from home They r.
q solved to fght feg tho latter, in adiudicaiio