Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-21
Remoral of Gen. Rosecrans.

Removal OF ten. KOSecfdnS.
No intelligence that we have laid be-
fore our readers for many days, will
occasion such surprise as the report of
Gen. Rosecrans' removal. Their first
and most natural feeling will be that
/" it can't be possible; " that the report
is without foundation" This view of
the case we were disposed to take until
certain other facts were thrust upon our
attention, which seem to confirm the !
truth of the disagreeable rumor. These
facts we.nowssgive our readers, as they |
have already made their appearance in
other papers. The St. Louis Democrat
Of. Monday contains the following:
"ImpOrtant Military Change-Gen-
eral Grant Succeeds General Rose
Grams in the Army of the Cumber-
land.
aroma gentleman who came through
from Cincinnati, yesterday, we learn that
General Grant and staff were at Odin,
on Saturday night, en- route for Louis
Vile Lieutenant Colonel Kent, of the
29th Illinois, late of Grants staff, &C.
companied the party From Col Kent
our informant learned that Grant would
probably be ordered to the command of
the army of the Cumberland, vice Gen
Rosecrans, removed We also learn
that the three departments, the Cumber-
land, the Ohio, and the Tennessee, will
be merged into one under the immediate
command of General Grant. What dis
position will be made of Generals Burn
side and Rosecrans, we are not advised.
The Terre Haute Express of the same
date publishes the following paragraph:
"Gen. Grant and entire Staff, requfr-
ing ten or dozen coaches for their
transportation, passed here yesterday
morning, on a special train eastward
The General is fast recovering from the
injuries received from the fall of his
horse, but he is still compelled to use
eruteh. To state his destination would
of course be contraband, and we will
not inform our readers, for the very good
reason that we do not precisely know.
But from the fact that this train goes to
Jeffersonville, it. is no hard matter to
guess The hero of Vicksburg will not
be idle long.
THUS, it will be seen, that the move
ments of Gen. Grant go to sustain the
reports that he has superseded Rose
erans Gen. Halleck's well known par
TALLY for Grant must also be taken into
consideration 1t is not probable tina
he has ordered that officer to report to
Rosecrans, except as his successor.
Gen. Grant will have nothing to do with
the Army of the Cumberland except az
its commander
We frankly assert that we dislike this
new scheme of the commanderin-chief
To US it Is ominous of defeat. While we
are willing to admit that Gen. Grant
in the light of his Vicksburg campaign
is all that his most enthusiastic admirer,
claim for him, we do not believe he il
the equal of Rosecrans in any particular
and that the removal of the latter officer
in the face of the enemy, is one of thos'
ill-advised changes which has 'alread..
done SO much to delay the success of gu
armies and protract the war. Better ;
thousand times to have removed Hallecl
than to have interfered with Rosecrans
The Presidents policy is becoming to
complicated for our poor comprehension
In Missouri he refused to remove an off
Ger whom three-fourths of the people de
sire removed, and in Tennessee he 81
pereedes an officer whom no one wishe
disturbed, and in whom the people hav
the most unlimited confidence. Whc
the meaning of all this is, we can't, fo
the life of US, comprehend. Gen Ha
leck seems to have personal animosit
against any commander who looms u
too prominently before the people, an
down he tumbles that officer without an
assigned reason or excuse.
In one thing, however, we common
the prudence of the Administrator
Having determined on the removal
Rosecrans, it was wise to wait until aft
the elections for its accomplishment.
would have had damaging effect upc
the cause of the Union in Ohio for Il
people to know that Gen. Rosecrans WI
to be superseded.
It is some consolation to kno
also that Rosecrans gives way
a General who has thus far been en-
nently successful, and in whose " goo
luck" the people have as much con
dence as did Napoleon in his star Ora
may win another Vicksburg campais
and efectually suppress the rebellion
the West; and, as he appears to
about the only officer whose succe
don't annoy Gen. Halleck, it is to
hoped that victory may yet again perc
upon his banners We trust, also, tn
Halleck has had the discretion to ser
Gen. Sherman to Chattanooga. Gener
Grant might feel awkward without hir