The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-21
The Situation i'm Georgia.
What the Rebels Think OF Results and
Prospects-A Remarkable Article.

/ What the Rebels Think OF Results nm
ProspectszA Remarkable Article
From the ex-Chatanoogs Rebel, Oct. 9.
Upon reaching the Tennessee river fron
the field .of Chickamauga, Rosecrans al
4 dressed his troops: Ia ID eE.'- ITO
"Fellow soldiers" said he, "the object o
our expedition was the possession of Chat
tanooga, and here we are.' Brief and t.
the point forcible and adroit Thus IA
the campaign, whose mysterious surges arr
rolling above us has no clearer, as 1t Ger
tainly cannot have a more laconic history
The few words from the Federal General
illuminate the whole page as ray from a
dark lantern, and no man can close his eyes
to the somewhat painful glare which they
throw full upon him. ". -
Not even General Bragg himself can
contradict them, except with the sword
and such strokes as it may please heaven to
send us through his hands IN the few days
of fair weather just before us. Unless we
hasten to make hay while the sun shines,
the story as thus told, will hold good
through all time the spring will open un-
toward dangers to our arms the cause that
now turns upon the pivot OF its crisis, will
drop like flower which has been untended;
and The end must fade out of sight in roll
ing torrent of disasters-in fogs and gloom.
God forbid it
At present the case stands in about this
wise: We have lost the gate to lower Ten
nesee, the river, which was our base, and
the facilities which these afforded to pro-
gressive movements into East Tennessee and
Kentucky. We have gained hand-to- hand
fight; we have repelled powerful inva'
sion; we have preserved Georgia, and Sc
cured a commanding position around the
enemy. Rosecrans, on the other hand, has
acquired all we have lost. He has reached
Chattanooga and fortified it, taken up the
river line as his base, and now prepares
quietly to winter in his new quarters leav-
ing us uncivilly out in the cold to take care
of ourselves as best as we can or must
Physically, and to all appearances. in the
aggregate he is the gamer; for, after the
prisoners, standards, and artillery taken at
are counted our victory is
told, while our deficit, in the long sum total
glory included, does not make up for any
results yet achieved.
In word, we have lost ten or twelve
thousand men without gaining an equiva-
lent in producing territory. The whole
question, therefore, turns upon the situation
and what we will do with it. In military
circles it is generally believed that Rose
Grams has blundered into position which,
by an adversary Of genius, might
be turned Ia three adroit movements to
his eternal ruin If this be so and the
specuated, but by no means
explained, are made, the victory of Chick
amauga will be complete, and the many
lives there sacrificed will become as so
many trophies to noble work. But if
this opinion be false, and the movements
as possible fail to be made, and
we continue to gaze listleSsly from the bold
knobs Of Missionary Ridge upon comfort
able barracks Of the blue varlets below
then may we tremble for the next cam,
paign for as sure as there is any surety in
the future, the spring Of ga must see us
far from the borders of Georgia, or near to
the verge of destruction.