The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-10-23
Rebel Opinion Of Rosecrnu's Cam
pnign.
CnATTANooGA Oct. IL.


Rebel Opinion Of Rosecrna's Cam
pnisn.
! CnATTANooGA Oct. IL.
The following is E leader from the
cX Chattanooga Retel, OF the Stu OF
October. 1t puts the case in very
, plain terms: A. D.S.
"Upou reaching the Tennessee riv-
or from..thc field Of. Chiclamaugo,
Rosear1 addresscd his troops -
Eel Hers" said he, "the OBJ
fect Expedition was the poses
Sion ON 5ttanoogr, and here we are. -
; Brief, and to the point; forcible and
adroit, Thus far the campaign, whose
mysterious sYrges are rolling above
: us, has no eleafer, as IL certainly can.
not have more laconic history. The
few words of the Federal General IL.
Illuminate the whole page as d ray f'om
n dark lantern, and no man can close
his eyes to the somewhat painful glare
which they throw full upon him.
Not even Gen. Bragg himself can
contradict them, except with his sword,
and such strokes as it may please
heaven to send us through his hands
in the fair weather just before us. -
Unless we hasten to make hay when
, the sun shines, the story rs thus told,
will hold good through all time; the
Spring will open untoward dangers
to our arms; the cause which nov
turns upon the pivot of its crisis, will
drop like flower which has been un.
tended; and the end must fade out of
sight in rolling torrent of disasters
in fogs and gloom. God forbid i'll
"At present the case stands about
in this wise: We have lost the gate
to lower East Tennessee, the river,
which was our base, and the facilities
which these afforded for progressive
movements into East Tennessee and
Kentucky. We have gained hand
to hand fight; we have repelled
powerful invasion; we have preserved
Georgia, and secured q commanding
position around the enemy. Rose.
Grams on the other hand has acquired
all that we have lost. He has reach
ed Chattanooga and fortified it, taken
ND the river line rs his base, and now
prepared to winter quietly in his new
quarters, leaving us unclvilly out in
the cold to take care of ourselves as
best we can or must. Physically, and
to all appearances, in the aggregate
he is the gainer for, after the prison
ers, standards and artillery taken at
Chicamauga are counted, our victory
is told, whilst our deficit in the long
sum total, glory included, does not
make up for any results yet achieved.
ain q word, we have lost ten or
twelve thousand men without gaining
an equivalent in producing territory.
The whole question, therefore, turns
upon the situation, and what we will
do with it In military circles, it is
generally believed that Rosecrans has
blundered into position which, i'm
proved by an adversary OF genius,
might be turned in three adroit move
ments to his eternal ruin. If this be
so and the movements speculated, but
by no means explained, are made, the
victory of Chickamauga will be com
plete and the many lives there sacri-
feed will become as so many trophies
to q noble work. But if this opinion
be false and the movements suggested
as possible fail to be made, and we
continue to gaze listlessly from the
bold knobs of Missionary Ridge upon
comfortable barracks Of the blue var
lets below, then may we tremble for
the next campaign; for as sure as
there is any surety in the future, the
Spring Of Ga must see us far from the
borders of Georgia, or near to the
verge OF destruction. Nail it toyour
door post, men of the South, and re-
fuse to be deluded into any other be-
lief. Food and raiment are our needs.
We must have them. Kentucky and
Middle Tennessee can only supply
them. Better give up the sea coast,
better give up the Southwest, aye,
better to give up Richmond without q
struggle, and win these, than lose the
golden field, whose grain and wool
are our sole hope. The enemy has
just one army too many IN the field
for us. We must crush this overplus;
we must gain one signal, Stonewall
Jackson campaign. Destiny points
the very place. Be Rosecrans the
victim. Defeat him, pulverize him,
run him to the Ohio river, and then
close the war with the next Summer.
And how? Nothing easier. The bee
which has really stung our flank so
long, once disposed of, our triumphs
and legions have q clear road before
them. Fed sumptuously through the
Winter, well shed and clad, they have
only to meet dispirited foe, retake
the valley of the Mississippi, secure
the election OF peace Democrat to
the Presidency in the Fall, and ar
range the terms Of treaty and indie
ipendenco.
"These results can be accomplished
no where Use than in this Depart
ment. The North west is our real adj
lversary."
"No matter how often we whip the