The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-31
Army Incidents and Items.

usually appear, even under the most try-
ing circumstances in great army, we
notice the following: ~
Gen. Burnside few days ago issued
an inspiriting address to his army, an
nouncing that the suspicious time" for
an advance had come. Hardly, how
ever, had his army commenced moving,
when torrents of rain poured down and
rendered the roads totally impossible.
Artillery and pontoon wagons sank hope
lessly in the mud. and we're only relieved
by hundreds Of men taking hold of long
ropes and dragging them out In this
way hundred brave fellows were tug.
ging at a rope attached to pontoon
wagon, when it broke, letting half of
them fall back in the mud Nothing dis
couraged, however, one of them jumped
to his feet and shouted to his compan-
ions, "never mind, boys; try again,
Gen. Burnside says this is the 'auspicious
time. F.
The heroic conduct of the regu-
lars in the battle Of Stones River has
never, we fear, been fully appreciated by
the country. The following statistics
viii show the material of which they
@ere made Rousseau's division con-
sisted of four brigades, of which the
regulars were one. Its losses were, in
killed, 10 officers and It's enlisted men,
of whom 5 officers and 90 men were
regulars. The wounded amounted to SO
officers and SS3 men, of whom % officers
and 474 men were regulars. The miss
ing we're officers and 364 men, of whom
not one officer and only 40 men were
regulars A more praiseworthy tribute
to the bravery and discipline of this gal
liant brigade could not be given. The
figures speak eloquently.
The Richmond Examiner says it is
not altogether an empty boast that the
Yankees hold all they have ever held;
''and, it continues, the pledge of the
President, once deemed foolish by the
South, that he would hold, occupy, and
possess all the forts belonging to the
United States Government, has been re-
deemed almost to the letter by Lincoln"
With one or two exceptions, all the
strongholds on the seaboard, from Fort
ress Monroe to the Rio Grande, are in
our possession. The Examiner is fully
convinced that, unless 1900 or 100, 900
men can be added to the rebel army of
the Southwest within the next two
months, the cause of the rebels is lost
Yet, while rebel papers are thus unwill-
ingly conceding the continued triumph
and progress of our army, our own poor
timid and Responding souls-intimidated
by the effrontery of a few plotting trail
tors among US here at home--are be-
coming discouraged, and concede the
truth Of the traitor cry that the rebellion
can never be put down Away with such
croaking God will endorse and sustain
the cause of justice, mercy, and human
ity! -,
There are unmistakable indications,
in the language of the New York Trib-
une, that it will soon begin to thunder
all around the horizon, and they who
fancy the vitality or vigor of the Union
exhausted by twenty months of warfare
will read their mistake in the flashes of
o thousand cannon.
A clever correspondent Of the
New York Tribune tells of the following
ruse adopted by Cen Rosecrans to de-
ceive the rebels as to the strength of his
army. If not purely imaginative, it in
dictates that the Commander Of the Army
of the Cumberland is cup to snuff :" in
more points than one:
A cunning ruse-a Roland for Bragg
Oliver-was practiced upon the enemy,
Friday night, Jan 2 1t was apparent
that their numbers exceeded ours. Mai.
General Thomas, who is habitually de-
Eberate. said the enemy outnumbered us
some so Q. or g 700 men. After we Q
cupied Murireesboro, we ascertained be-
yond doubt that Kirby Smiths 10000
men, which we knew bad been detached
from Bragg ostensibly to 60 to Mississip-
pi, had been quietly bivouacked among
the mountains within call of Murfreesbo-
70, and when the Army of the Cumber-
land moved upon Bragg, they were order
ed back to the front. 1t was cunning
ruse. Bragg did it to bring on an at
tack, vainly imagining that his re-en-
foreements would turn the scale of victo-
ry in his favor. But Friday night Gen.
Rosecrans directed Lieut. Col Langdon
of Gen. McCooks staff, and Capt. c. R.
, Thompson of his own, each possessing
voices Of fine volume to move the l4th
Division" to the right Of our line, and de.
monstratively as possible. You will un.
derstand that the 'l4th Division" was a
myth. There was none such in the
army Langdon and Thompson, howev.
err, with powerful vocalization, deployed
its columns into line, and Illuminated the
woods with blazing bivouac fires. Sub
seauently Gen. Rosecrans visited tht
camp of the "l4th Division" and taking
a lot If orderiieu each with n frebranC