Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-09-22
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As we anticipated, another bloody ba:-
tie has been fought upon the banks of
the Tennessee. But we did not antiei-
pate that our noble army would be over
powered and forced to retreat. Yet soft
seems to be. The extent Of the misfor-
tune, at the time we write, is not known.
We have received only the two reports
one giving an account of the fighting en-
Saturday, which was of the most desper-
ate character-yet Indicating no defeat;
and the other, from Louisville, announc-
aug ell1Fs fsuseoi - q i-'i<
beaten and forced to fall back on Chat
tanooga If the General, finding him. I
self hard-pressed by superior numbers on |
Saturday, retreated to Chattanooga on
Saturday night in good order, and with i
out any fatal loss of artillery, the rebels
viii have derived no advantage common
surate with their efforts They have con-
centrated every available man in the
Southwest, besides drawing largely from
Lees army in Virginia, for the purpose
os annihilating the Army of the Cumber-
land by one of those sudden, impetuous
dashes for which they are celebrated
The fighting on Saturday indicated that
the rebels felt that everything depended
upon the quickness with which they &C.
complished their object. They realize
that delays are exceedingly dangerous.
They have so weakened their armies at
other points for the purpose of defeating
Roseerans that those armies may be
overthrown before the troops taken from
them can be returned, if short work is
not made of his command.
With his army safely entrenched at
Chattanooga, Gen. Rosecrans could bid
defiance to the rebel hosts so long as his
supplies last; or he might cross the
river and fall back to Tullahoma, by
which time he could be heavily re-
enforced, and again enabled to assume
the offensive
But it is useless to conceal the fact,
that if the battle was renewed on Sunday
and the Union army was defeated and
thrown back in confusion upon Chatts-
IN the loss Of thousands of prisoners and
a large amount of artillery An exult
ing enemy would press on with desperate
vigor, flank US at Chattanooga, compe
another retreat, which, at best, would
amount to q rout, and thus at one blow
recover East Tennessee and all the
ground lie has lost during the last cam
paign. We trust that the latter SUPPOSE
ton is not the correct one, and that i
viii he found that Gen. Rosecrans has
only fallen back to better and stronger
position, and that when the rebels assai
the Notifications at Chattanooga, they
will find, as they did at Corinth, thai
Rosecrans is never so dangerous as wher
he retreats.
We do not wish, however, to hold ou
false hopes We cannot conceal that VIC
feel the deepest anxiety to hear further
intelligence, nor that we are apprehen
sive that it will be of a character tt
spread gloom instead of Joy throughout
the land
From the Southwest we have some
important successes announced. Gen
Croker has returned from an expedition
in which he successfully captured or de
strOyed q lot of rebel property. There
were no rebel forces to oppose him. They
are all after Rosecrans
The Government is pretty well assured
~ this time, we suppose, that troops have
been sent from Lees army to reinforce
Bragg. The information is confirmed il
away to place itbeyOnd dispute, but GER
tainly not in a way to occasion any sat
isfaction. We can conceive of nothing
more irritating than to read dispatch
from headquarters of the Army of the
Potomac, announcing that it is now def
nitely ascertained that Gen. Ewel's
corps of Lees army has gone to Chatta
nooga. The Government may have
fiarna Cen Ro
secrans IN time, but We fear they did moi
take the same interest in the matter they
did to reinforce Grant. When that off
Ger was supposed to be in danger, Burn
sides corps was promptly sent to his re
lief We frusf ono of Granite arr,1
corps has been sent to Rosecrans' assist
ance. Troops from that department
can reach the hard-pressed General by
the way of Corinth quicker than from
any other point