The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-31

own pungent expression, that II was sr-
pulling out his eye teeth not to have haze
ngnt. whether q man Of different stama
would not have been able to comneI q 10.
tie, know not; but Meade was NOT o uS
wiling, but eager to bring such resnf.
ABOUT, ana did all he could In this yie,v -
| THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
| The Army of the Potomac-wbich
visit after an interval OF some MONTE re-
after seeing several of our other orose M
mics In the field-remains the same snIo az
dld military Observation-Disclosures sana;
having bettered itself in manv soldia,inn
Qualities. In marching, especially. dato:S.
very marked Improvement, as comn.rnJ
with my recoilections OF the march Gu
the same ground last year. Nothina o oue5
be more perfect than the training wb WHY
these old campaigners have acauire5 ~ III
| the arts and economies of MARCHING
an Illustration to the marching done d.
ing the campaign of the past fortnigbt
may mention that, on the lith, WaTro,,,a
| corps marched twenty-four miles anS
| fought two engagements. AS to the pnsbnt
of the wonderful tramps which thew haTe
been making, through the days and nights
of this late curious campaign, they feel Sn1
zled, amused, and are somewhat disnpSad
to think they have been bamboozled. Rut
they are the same patient, all-sufferinp. he.
roic men. Yet how seldom do we hear
WORD OF praise to these brave, self-sacrifc-
ing fellows.
Our losses in men during the campaon
have been inconsiderable, and in material
very slight; but the horses have suffered
severely. Gen. Pleasanton, Chief of Cav
airy, tells me that the number of killed
wounded, and broken-down horses. dur
ing this campaign wiz reach srhirty-fve
hundred.
. INCIDENTS By THE WAY.
In the counter-march, we passed over
much OF the same ground over which we
had come up, and almost every spot of
which has been rendered famous by some
action during the last three years. As
rode over the battlefield of Bull Run, nv
horses hoofs knocked about the skulls Of
poor fellows who, having been laid in shall.
low graves by the hill slopes, had been lit
orally washed out of their last resting pla-
ces by the rains. All along the way the
army was followed by flocks of carrion
crows preying on the dead horses that
strew the way, or picking out the ewes of
unburied rebels lying in the woods.
l coEve1sed on the way back with sever
al citizens who had seen and talked with
Gen. Lee. They say he never looked so
well. Gen. Ewell was with him, looking
cadaverous and wasted with long sickness.
Though minus leg, he rides his horse
and mounted orderly attends him with
crutch for his use when he dismounts. The
citizens report the rebel army appears in
fine condition, physically and morally
being, as a general thing, well clothed and
fed. The cavalry and battery horses are,
however, in wretched plight, being al
most universally utterly broken down.
The rebels, in passing through the coun-
try, took everything they could find in the
way OF forage and subsistence, and corn
fields belonging to Virginians which our
troops had protected, We're unceremon-
ously stripped by the rebels. The rebel
army started out with but fourteen DAYS
provisions, and the heavy rains OF Satur-
day had carried away the railroad bridge
ever the Rapidan, thus endangering their
supplies. Gen. Lee, accordingly, sent all
round to hunt up everything III the way of
food and forage he could find. At War
renton Gen. Jeb. Stuart, being invited to
dine by citizen, sent back TO inquire if
the proposed host could feed his command.
On receiving reply to this droll interrog-
atory that he could not, the famous raider
sent back word, "Then you cannot feed
me-"
PROSPECTS.
1t remains to be seen what action the
military authorities at Washington will
take in regard to the Army of the Poto-
mac, in view of the pass to which affairs
have been brought by the late campaign.
Livery one in the army here agrees that ac-
tive operations against Richmond by this
line are over for this year. l may say,
further, that everybody is persuaded that
nothing can ever be done against Rich
mond by this line. The map is against
our ever being able to do anything effective
in this way by any such force as we now
have. Every General in the army agrees
that the south side Of the James River is
the only line on which to operate directly
against Richmond. If, therefore, the army
OF the Potomac is for the present to do moth
ing, we should at once abandon this bar
rem wilderness, fortify the fords of the Po-
tomac, man the defenses Of Washington
thoroughly, and send two or three of our
best corps to the decisive theater of war in
the Southwest. When the business there
is once we'll done up, it will be no longer
question either of Richmond or of Vir-
GINA.
RECEPTION OF GENERAL RosECRANs.-