The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-01-16
The Campaign in Tennessee
GEN, ROSecranS' LnbOPs.

General Rosecrans has certainly de.
non;trated that he is an officer of great
nerve and daring. At the time Of his
attack on Brugg's superior force he was
cut off from supplies and from reinforce
ments. He began the contest with
terrible disaster-the defeat of his right
wing. His genius here revealed itself
in brilliant man9ure--the maSsing of
his arlillery--by which the right wing
was saved from total annihlation and
the enemy repulSed with terrible slaught-
er. BY the brilliant achievements of
General Negley, in breaking and turning
the rebel right wing, the contest was de-
cided but TOO late on Friday to permit
US to follow up the adyan ages gained.
On Saturday vigorous shellng of the
rebel position was all that could be done
in the midst of drenching rain. Dur.
lug the night the enemy evacuated. -
Thus the great victory has been in a
great measure rendered barren of results
by the imbecility which exposed the right
wing to danger and destruction.
The brilliant and daShing charge Of
General Negley, by which the rebel right
was turned, must add much to the repu-
tation Of that brave young commander.
lie is represented as having displayed
great gallantry aud much splendid gem
eralshp, and to have been the true hero
oI the fight op Friday. He has long
been recognized as splendid diSciplin-
arian, and his affairs Of Lavergne, Nash
vile anil GoodlettsvIle but gave prom
ise of bis last splendid achievement
The TASK now before General Rose.
craus is one much more serious and diff,
6cult than that just finished. The la
bors of Hercules are but begun. j.;
has failed to destroy the rebel army, an,
must make another attempt. Our iates
: dispatches represent Bragg at Shelby
vile, south Of the Important stream Q
Duck liver From Murfreesboro to Shel
3 byVille must be another campaign =
e General Rosecrans cannot immediatel
!, follow. His army must be- recruite
!. and his communications with NaShVill
It and the North re. established.
The failure to destroy Bragg's arm
is one Seriously TO be deplored. W
have evidence going to show that tn
!, was not impossible, aud was only PR
/. vented by the disaster on the right flanE
" In scattering this army General Ros,
d Grams would have destroyed the mo-
W magnificent Of the rebel Western armies
" We have published lately list of Bragg
le regiments, showing him TO have bee
1t in command ofnot less than one huI
- dred and ninety i've regiments and bal
2, tallions of infantry, sixty regiments
r cavalry and thirty batteries Of artillery
ct If we average the infantry at fov
G, hundred to the regiment there is fort
le of over seventy-fve thousand men. II
ut cavalry and artillery will augment tn
ry to nearly one hundred thousand men,
en- We learn that the men are comfOrtab
I'd though roughly clad. Our correspo
ye dent makes particular mention of Il
ie fact. During the summer we had Il
It's doubted evidence Of their ragged conc
a. tion. 1t now appears that this W
lie economy on their part, They cou
o. then, without suffering, go ragged a
he bootlesS, aud thus afford, when wint
81. approached, to clothe themselves me
Ia. comfortably. IN. Y Herald.