Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-23
FRON WARRINGTON.
uancuvers Of gen. John~ton against
Gen. Grant-Consequence OF Burn
sides Incompetence to be
Removed-Neccssity of the Abandon.
menr of the Chattanooga Campaign
-Causcs OF the Failure of that Cam
patgu.
Especial Correspondence of the Chicago Times
WAsHIvGToN, November is


IL j. said that within the las forty eight hours
the " ar Department has received positive intel
lieence from the West to the effect th Il General
Grant hs> become convinced that his position at
Chattanooga Is untenabc aud that he will be
compelled 70 abandon il, and TO retreat 10 Nash
willie NJ esry day and that this is owing 10
two causes First. the msconduc, and ncom
petence OF Burnside and second the success of
General Johnston ~ DESTROYING General Grants
lines OF communication The position, OF
Chattanooga is impregnable But. il the op
eratious of General Johnston and the sulky
obstnacy of Burnside are continued two weeks
longer General Grants army must either starye
or else make disastrous retreat Ii is stated
that when General Grant first assumed
the command at Chattanooga he explicitly
informed the President that he expected General
Burnside to be under his orders. and
that II vas distinctly understood that that vas
to be SO: and, also. that Gen Grant gave the
PRESIDENT To understand pretty explicitly that he
would submit 10 10 dietation or Interference from
other Stanton or Halleck For both of these
martinets Gen Grant i known 10 entertain the
most sovereign contempt he can imagine moth
iug more ridiculous than the attempt on the part
OF such mea 10 manage aud direct the operations
OF distant Campaign ms, or. indeed. OF any campaign
whatever And il distinctly un ersiood be
tween him ana the President. when he under TOOK
the command of the Military Division q The
Mississippi embracing The heretofore Depart
ments Of the Ohio. the Cumberland and the Ten
nessee" that his authority in that immense lie
uartment was 20 be supreme and uncontrolled
IL has not been 50 month has not vet eapsel
Yet already Burnside relying the high favor
he enjoys With the Administration. has diso5evei
eertain positive orders of Gen. Grant. and has
thereby Gissrtange. the plans Of the latter and
la, appealed to the Administration 10 support
him. on the ground that he was promised an IL
dependent command when he undertook the ex-
petition into Eastern Tennessee. aud that his re-
cent action. although il might TOT he altogether
pleasing - Gen Grant. vet called for and
JUSTIFIED by the wauts Of the Union men o. EsS.
Tennessee
Gen Grant, however, Is not q nan 10 be trifcd
with he never had any faith ia Burnside a a
General A. soon a his orders had been disc
beyet he telegraphed here Immediately for the
instant removal of Burnside and sent here. be
siGes an officer who was the bearer OF 4 commun
cation 70 the President, in which that step Vas IN
sisted on - absolutely necessary Gen Grant
requires the troops under Burnside But lie
wants them under IN officer Who vii obey his
Orders. tud IN whom he can have confidence Il
: >aid that. after a stormy discussion between
Lincoln, stanton, anu Halleck, il has finally
been decided 10 translate the Butcher OF Freier
ickSbufs 10 some other sphere OF action. and 90
send Zen Foster 10 command the troops at or
near knoxville, Before dismissing Burnside for
the present. would Ike the readers OF the Times
u observe that the public has been desgncdly and
Systematically hum5ugged snd deceived in re-
gard 20 he operations ever since he entered East