East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-05-19
THE GRAND RESULT.

agate, correspondent Of the Gin.
cinnati Gazette summed up the result
of Rockers nine days campaign, in a
recent communication, from which We
make the following extracts: '-t.'..
We are not in any sense successful
We started out to capture or annihllate
the rebel army. We did neither. w.
expected at least to take no steps back.
ward We have taken them
In its totally it was not even drawn
battle. We may sometimes have held
our ground during the day, but then
We fel! back at night. We may some.
times have repulsed the enemy from
certain positions, but then they always
got them next morning. We did not
hold our battle feli-which high mii
tary critics pronounce almost the invari.
able ign OF deieat-our wounded are
IN the cney's han l.; we have retreate,l
10y the way We came, and made haste
To place deep river between the enc
my we had talked of annihilating aud
ourselves. ....... ....t
a We have lost heavily in prisoners,
killed and wounded. The army can
not be bit for weeks, if tho ideas of the
old regime prevail, for new attack
Without better fortune than we dare
hope within the next four weeks, the
doings of the last five days will have
put US back six months at least-possi
lily even further-in reaching the ond
of the rebellion which We had exultantly
thought so near. .....
Those are the plain, simple facts. as
they 90 out To our cold critics across
the water; we shall at least show better
our national fitness 20 earn victory if
We fairly face the repulse. .... .,...
1t is too early yet to attempt explain
ing the secret of this sudden termination
to the long hcral1ed movement. The
plan for our operations is admitted on
all hands to have been only equaled in
the brilliancy of it's conception by the
skill with which its execution WAS be-
gun. The troops 10 the main fought
well; and though our lines We're forced
back, it was still supposed we We're in
no danger Of being forced into the river
But the plan had one element of fatal
weakness. 1t violated one of the FIRST
axio,ns Of war, by dividing the army
before the enemy, and giving him an
opportunity To- concentrate in turn on
each wing. and thus Defeat US in detail
To do this in tho face of such an enemy
az We had was hazardous in the extreme,
but it was essential to the plan '-rb
Napoleon said the secret Of his sue
cess over tho Adstrians was that they
didn't understand the value ,uf half an
hour. II was the failure To improve u
few half hours to the utmost that gave
tho enemy their first opportunity. -
Hooker's right was attacked aud over
powered Oh Saturday. IL Sedgwick
had been ono day sooner in has attack,
that days battle would hardly have gone
against Us 40 sOrely ut Charlottesville.
But for some unexplained reason the
moveDts tailedi 10 c,,-0perate; the rebels
werc permitted first to attack Hooker,
thea turn aud attack Sedwick, then
back ON HW,ker again l"Vu pfuhasi
The evidence secms conclusive that
Lee had been heavily reinforced. Even
Longstrect's corps, which we Thought
at Suffolk, is said to have ioined him. :
They were perfectly familiar with the
ground, while we had neither map nor
personal knowledge Of IT; and tins gave
them another advantage. maaat,f f.
Stonernan, too, was not heard from.
and Ilookers plan involved Stope,nsn's
work as one Of it's essential elements of
success. Aud the heavy rain storm wss