Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-28
from ~ Arlington.
EXTENT OF rnE DisAsrKE ~ GsoEois-LiScoLs
AND BuRSsiDE ALoSE 10 BLANE-AsorahR
DHAFT PRoBABLI
Special corrssponasnee Of the csiesgo Tines
WARRINGTON, Sept %

In my letter Of September 10. have already be T
gun 10 be realzel ludeei the moment had
hni-hed writing that letter. At IL o'clock on int
day. the bsttle commenced which resulted 10 ne
retreat OF Risecrans 90 ChauHhoogs The DIS +
n-er that thus beiel the Federal arms J. believed
here 10 be much more serious than the public nc
count. indicate aud will probably result ~ the
retreat Of the whole Union force 20 Nashville.
and the reoccupston Of Chatunooga. Knoxville
and the whole OF Eastern aud Middle Tennessee
by the Confederates This Disaster. IL IL beialls
u including tie reposses-IOn OF the Great South
ern railroad thoioughout its whole extent by the
COnfederates, and the disaster which We have nj
ready suffered In the defeat and retreat OF Rose
Grams. will very naturally be attributed by your
readers 20 the III management Of Halie,k, whose
business il IL provide Tor all such contingencies
and TO see ~ 10 that Rpsecrans was strong enough
To- make the advance on Atlanta. which he or
dered him 90 make Technically. that j. true;
and indeed il is impossible a. relieve Halle'k ot
much of the blame OF the affair But. Ia point
of TACT. the blame rests first and chiefly upon
Burnside: and second. upon Mr. Lincoln. who.
you will remember is managing the war himself
Htllecks orders 20 Burnside. even before the lat
ter began To move on Knoxville. we're. u con-
slider himself and his movements as mere AL
iunets aud supports of Rosecrans, aud To h"ld
himself ready at all times, TO operate with and
support the latter officer. And. alter Chatt'-
nooga and Knoxville had been occupied and The
movement on Atlanta had been agreed upon.
these orders were repeated distinctly. and Halleck
depended on their being obe,e ell. Had this been
done. the affsr of the Goth might have resulted
differently Burnside will he called ON To expliin
why he failed to 0bey this explicit order. Certain
il i that the combined forces Of Rosecrans ami
Burnside were really match for the combined
forces Of Bragg and Johnston. although the latter
was still further reinforced by LongStreet's corps
Of Lees armv Aud here Hilleck's responsible
tv ends aud Lincoln's responsibility begins. The
depletion of Meade's army by sending 4O,oOo OF
his II ops to New York TO euforce the con-crip
ton. WAS an act against which haeck strongly
rem pnstrated but demonstrated in vain. That
foolish blunder was done by Lincoln's orders. aud
against the advice of every prominent military
/ man who nc the time had the Presidents ear
Behold the result, IL enabled Gen Lee to de-
tach Longstreet's corps for service in Georgia,
and the presence of Longstreets corps with Gen.
/ Johnston's enabled the latter officer to defeat
] RoSecrans on the 2Oth inst
We are now assured by the administration
organs the same papers who told Us such bare
faced falsehoods "that Banks WAS co opera
ting with Burnside, in December last, IN an nc
tick on chm nd THAT the Army of the
! Potomac under Hooker. aud alter Chancellor
vile, had not suffered any serious revere. and
would soon again ume the Off nsiye, that
Lees armv after Getty sburg. WAS utterly routed
and never could get across the Potomac into Vir
ginia again." and that, by the IL h OF July last
such measures had been taken "a would en'irey
] prevent any potron of the fragments of Lee.
army from ever reaching Richmond again. =
| told, by the same organs which thus de
ceivei the people that Rosecrans is being largely
reinforced. and will soon be able To withstand
Bragg and Johnston successfully. Whether true
or false. this statement is dsgraceful To the Wa
Department and To the administration II there ART
any troops which be sent To Rnsecrans now
they could have been sent to him equally as vel
two weeks ago. and it is criminal in the admins
tration not To have sent them But IL ~ not q
be believed that in m king such a move tina
on Atlanta. II ,lleck dl not send To Rosecran
all the troops his disposal Whatever may he
his faults, rashness and foolhardlness are no
among them.
! | observe that your very able correspondent
T with the Am, OF the Potomac expresses tn
opinion that Gen Lees army has been dismem
bered and that he has not over 40 900 men, AN
that the Confederates intend TO ab ,ndon th
whole of Virginia and North Carolina Nv in
formation Oh these points leads me to entertain
different opinion From all that can learn.
an satisfied that Gen Lee has the forces enumer
D ated in INV last letter. with the exception of th
1 corps of Longstreet; that any further advanc
= southwark, on the part of Meade's army, will b
attended with disaster; and that. so far fror
abandoning Virginia, the last stand of the Con
feierates will be made there In regard to th
n latter points. the Confederate idea is. that. j
a order to hold Meades army in check-estmate
by them at about 80 900 slrong-a force two
: thirds that strong. $4,000 men. is amply suff
b cient. In point of fact, however, they have. Q
!. | understand. at least So 900 And the mo.
probable suppOsition is that these troops, he the
more or less, will maneuver before Gen MEADE
and perhaps even fall back toward Richmond.
order that the Federal army may be drawn sti
z further away from their base, until matters me-
Chattanooga decided. which will probably !
n early in October Aud then. if those matte
result in the final defeat of Rosecrans. there wi
be nothing left for Gen Johnston to do except
reinforce Gen. Lee in his turn. and To such
extent that Confederate movement on Was
ington will be practicable
Il The citizens of Illinois fortunate in tn
they will not be cOnscTipted under the prese
~ draft But it is well understood here that. So f
s. As the raising of troops Is concerned. the col
n scriptiOn has proved an entire failure, and th
either another draft under il will have IN be q
dered CT the conscription itself ab indoned tn
question will be one of the first 10 be broug
n before Congress at the approaching session, u
10 less the President steals Il march upon the Repr
sentitives of the States and the people. and iSsu
another proclaim ttion for another draft beio
next December. And il i not at all improhah
u that he will not DO this Instead % 900 .OOO IN
which the Administration expected TO get by u
at draft, they will not get over CO. 900: aud. It
h. war goes on. they must have more men Lo
49, out therefore, for another draft. hen COnsrt
does assemble, strong effort will be made
repeal the conscription altoe ether. IT. inu;ili
- as measure is easily shown. while ia Z
81 forcement $50 odious as to require the presen
MT ct An army of 81 900 mem cost infinitely mt
on to the Government than it produces The tire
N u bic will be that the war itself has become so
DO popular. and confidence in the Administration
so completely gone. that 1t Will require enormC
bountes to secure any enlisi ments and that int
/, Iigent men will not willingly enlist at all
:. The act of Congress under which Mr. Line
% seeks his authority for abolishing the the writ
- habeas corpus does not justify the terms OF
:. proclamation An editorial article in the
tional Intelligence. attributed "a the pen OF
Seward so concluSvely establishes this point I
beg to direct the attention OF your readers
IT, II is in the paper OF the 18th y
in Suspension of the writ of Ha be
Corpus.
We commend the following article. which
~. copy from the Rockville Democrat. upon
The suspension Of the writ of habeas corpus TO