The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-20
The Successes of the Union Armies.


augurated civil war, has the cause of the Union
and the Constitution, the cause OF the Republic
rs it was made 10y the fathers looked as hopeful
az 1t does now. Victory has followed victory
wherever the Federal armies have moved. The
grand success of Grant az Vicksburg. and Of
Banks at Pot Hudson, has opened ct last, and
now without any reserve, the great Mississippi
River from its source to the Gulf, ard the COM
merce of the Northwest has again that open
channel to the sea. This cuts the rebel Confed-
eracy in two parts, completely isolating the vast
territory west of the river from the Gulf and
Atlantic States now in rebellion. 1t stops com
municatlon between these two parts, prevents
the transmission Of supplies from the more fer
tile west to the needy cOmmissariat at Rich
mond, and leaves Texas, Arkansas and w estern
Louisiana completely at our mercy this
is but a small part Of the fruit of these great
achievements. Grant has not only taken Vicks-
burg he has destroyed a rebel army of nearly
10000 men since he crossed the Mississippi in
May and commenced his march on Vicksburg.
He has taken from this army all its material of
war, its arms, cannon and ammunition. In this
time he has captured nearly if not quite 800
pieces of artillery and 10000 prisoners, besides
the great number Of the enemy put horS du COM
bal in his numerous battles. He has destroyed
mills, navy-yards, steamboats,, rams, aud all the
formidable preparations of the rebels up the
Iazoo river for an active river campaign against
our Western ae-t. 10 word, he has, SO far as
any thing more than guerrilla warfare is con-
cerned, put an end to the military power OF the
Confederacy in the vicinity Of his operations,
leaving scarcely enough of the rebellion alive
to form the nucleus, if let alone, of any serious
disturbance. He has beside this, released his
own army larger, better appointed, with more
artillery than ever before, and flushed and tri-
umphant with its brilliant successes, to hurl
itself upon such forces of the rebels between
Vicksourg and the Gulf as may have the rash
ness to stand IN its way, or be too slow of foot
to escape its swift and tireless marches. Already
this army has smitten Johnson again and again.
and is rapidly scattering and destroying his
army, now the only rebel force of magnitude
west Of Georgia
Although Banks successes since he COM
menced his campaign, marching from New Or
leans to the investment of Port Hudson, have
been less magnificent, they are not less complete
in themselves, and hardly take less important
positions in this great Western and South West
ern campaign. The army from New England
and the East, moving up from New Orleans,
have met and shaken hands with the army of
the West moving down from Cairo, on the
banks of the Mississippi, and the old Stars and
Stripes now float on the tide of that inland
sea Of commerce from the Lakes to the Cult
Further Eas. Gen. Rosecrans has pushed back
and conquered the rebel forces under Bragg
and with his old vigor and success is finishing
up the campaign in his department lie has
cleared all Middle Tennessee of traitors and it
now seems impossible that the rebel army in
his front will not be scattered or destroyed
And in the East the cause of the Union, is
brighter than ever before. The Army of the
Potomac has won splendid victory, and given
Lees army, the best of all the rebel armies a
stunning blow at Gettysburg. And if this
victory was not made as complete as we could
wish by the after destruction of Lees army.
let US not therefore depreciate it, but estimate
it at whatiit really was, a severe and disastrous
defeat of an army entirely confident of victory
an army. that has, at the first opportunity, re-
treated across the Potomac, and is making all
haste To nut Az great a distance 90 ,,oss;blo l.