Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-10-01
Perseverance and Strategy of Gen
RoSecranS

The following para graphs we cut from
the special correspondence of the Chi
cago Journal, (B. F. Taylor.) Read
them-they give us an insight into the
character of the man whose name is
in the mouths of so many at the present
time:
The rebels would readily abandonthe
cold Dominion" if they only could re-
possess Tennessee and Kentucky, and
it can hardly be doubted that they will
make determined stand and a desper-
ate struggle. But our army is strong in
heart and hand, having a faith undim-
med by breath of doubt, in General
Rosecrans and gunpowder He has
pushed the columns into Georgia his
tent has been pitched and struck in the
onward march, almost like the opening
and closing Of a butterfy's wing. Trace
his progress on the map, and count the
days in the almanac. Said he, to the
lumber makers Of Nashville, "give me
the lumber for my bridges, and [ will
have Chattanooga in ten days." and he
was as good as his word.
And hoao did he do ut? Without los
ing man or firing a gun, he entered
the rebel hold which nature and art had
conspired to make impregnable. Plunge
into the gloomy clefts and Chamber the
crazy mountains that ridge this region
as if the greater gods had followed it for
the very growth Of Businesses, and then
think by how adroit flank movement
he laid it all open to his exulting legions,
and your respect for mastery strategy
will be wonderfully deepened Trace
the whole story of this conquering "Pil-
grim's Progress from Murfreesboro to
Chattanooga; so over the road with me,
and take it gradually, as [ have tried to
do, the immense difficulties that stood
like lions at every milestone; roads the
most formidable to traverse, mountains
to Chamber, a railroad to build before
him, rivers to be bridged, the Tennes-
see to be passed. his immense trains to
be trailed after him hundreds of miles
and the campaign will assume a grandeur
Of proportions which, perhaps, you had
almost failed to comprehend. Shelby.
vile, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, how they
rise in the ascending scale And then
when you think about Murfreesboro, can
you wonder that the man whose alchemy
could turn defeat into triumph, should
have the lives of the whole army thrust
willingly into his hand? "Why," said
a veteran to me, "on one of those terri
BILE days, when the rebels were every
where and we seemed no where, 'Rosey,
came dashing down through the pelt-
ing storm Of lead, the big shot cutting
off trees as siekles cut corn, and waving
his hat as he rode along the lines, cried
out, Now boys, we've got them where
we want them | " Got them where we
want them Who could have dreamed
it, and then the grand wing swung around
like mighty gate and shut out the en-
envy from all hope of a victory they had
fancied won. Can you conceive what
love, admiration and enthusiasm he in
spired that day-what heroes he made
in twinklin ?
You may hear of repulse and falling
back, but be sure that General Rosecrans
never takes a step backward unless tri-
umph lies behind him. That he is mas
ter Of the situation that he has under
his eye all this vast theatre of war-a
theatre comparatively unknown in it's
details to the general reader, no man
can doubt, who knows what he has done
and where he has done it. Strategy is
seeing with the eye Of the mind and not
Of the body, and this General Rosecrans
possesses in remarkable degree. Be
lieve it, his march is only stayed, as the
torrent is stayed, to gather strength :;
not obstructed. AS he has found the
enemy in force, so his own combinations
will be vaster, and those wings" of his
will by and by, brood the enemy to
death or to defeat.
A CLEVER HIT.-We find the follow
ing terse communication in the London
Daily Neaos, Of the 9th inst:
"Sir: We are at war with the New
Zealanders,-'we for empire-they for
independedce.'
What if President Lincoln recognizes
their belligerant rights ?-and what if
New York capitalists take a New Yea
land loan-and if an American Laird
furnishes a New Zealand Alabama to be
commissioned by Maori lieutenant and
manned by British seamen from the
naval reserve, and SO on? Why not?
and what then?
I am, sir, &C., NEMEsUs."
n@-A mans best help is himself
his own heart, his own resolute purpose.