Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-03-11
General Jackson, besides being known as

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General jackson, besides being known as
a hard fighter, is pre- eminent in deep strate.
gy. He is stern disoiplinarian, and is re-
garded by the soldiers as an exacting com.
mander; but they love him, nevertheless,
follow him wherever be leads, cheerfully
retreating, standing or fighting at his order,
and doing the latter with stubborn valor,
inspired by the reckless bravery of his in'
dividual example.
General Joseph E. Johnston is consider.
ed superior officer both by the Govern.
mept and the people though General Lees
particular friends assert that it was fortu.
nate he was disabled at Fair Oaks, other.
wise their favorite military genius might
not have been called into play to produce
the more satisfactory results Ito them) Of
Confederate operations in Virginia since
then, His wounds yet prevent him from
engaging in, active service, but he is eer.
tainly Commander-in. Chief of the rebel
forces in the West.
General Bragg has enemies who measure
his operations by the scale Of impossibility,
they under-rate him, but beis generally re.
garded as combining the best qualities Of a
great General
Generals Lowell, Hindman and Van Dorm
are not considered capable Of commanding
large armies Pemberton is on probation
for high houors. General Price is consid.
cred one of the best Generals, and is thought
to have been badly treated by the Rich.
moud Government. He is noted for his
lack of ambition, and earnestuess in the
cause of the rebellion. Among the rising
men are Ewell, Early, Evans, Anderson,
Cobb, Polk, Hardee, Cheatham, Buckuer,
Kirby Smith, G.. W. Smith and Breckin,
ridge, all of whom were looked upon as
future Commanders.i Chief. The Missou-
ri Brigadiers, Pryor, Echols, Humphrey
Marshall, Preston, Jones and many others,
rank in the same scale Of mediocre ability,
but earnest and brave leaders in the cause.
General Wise is not considered good Gen.
eral; and, though now commanding in
force, he is kept directly under the control
of the Richmond War Department.
General j. E. B. Stewart has made a
great reputation, and the right bowers,
Hampton and Lee, share in the fame
Morgan and Forrest are representatives in
the same dashing class, whose exploits have
made the South ring with their Names
Jenkins and Imboden have also become IA
nous for their guerilla operations in West.
eru Virginia. 81
The DISPOSITION OF THE REBEL TROOPS
THEY ARE.-.The 100000
troops in active service are located as fol
lows: In Virginia, 100000, of-uhich 1885,
900 compose the rebel army Of the Poto.
mac under Lee, $4,000 the forces Of Gen.
Wise on the Pamuukey and Peninsula, and
G. w Smith around Richmond, Peters:
burg and on the Blackwater, and $4,000 a
force embracing the army Of General Echols
in the Kanawha Valley and other small de.
tached commands; in North Carolina, TO-
900 under General Evans; in Tennessee,
65, 900 under Bragg, including the com.
mands of Kirby Smith, Humphrey Mar
shall, Morgan and Forrest; in Mississippi,
$4,000 under Pemberton, including the
forces at Yicksburg and Port Hudson; in
Western Arkansas, Is, 900 under Hindmap;
in Southern Arkansas and Northern Loui-
siana, 5000 under Holmes in Texas, l0,-
900 State troops; in Alabama, $4,000 un-
der Beauregard, for the defence of Mobile;
in Georgia, 10000 under the same, around
Savannah; in South Carolina, $4,000, and
also under the same General, around Char.
lesion, and making the total force under
Beauregard 100000, which it is expected
can be concentrated at either Of the three
cities he is engaged in defending.
These figures are supposed to represent
the actual strength of the rebel armies, in
cluding infantry, artillery, cavalry and que
rillas, and show the combined forces to
number 4lS, 900 troops. Of this force, it
is estimated at least $4,000 are at all times
in the hospitals, disabled by sickness and
wounds, which leaves an effective force Of
about 365, 1000; the loss being proportion
ately divided between the various armies,
and making their respective strength about
twelve per cent. less than those estimated
above. Absenteeism weakens the armies
but very little, as officers can rarely obtain
furloughs, and no private is allowed to 60
home while he is able to load and shoot
This rigid discipline caused much dissatis-
faction; but it is considered by the rebel
leaders the best plan to keep their armies
on war footing. The men sometimes de-
sert and go home, but, if they elude mill
tary coercion, they are soon driven back to
the ranks again by public sentiment, which
is intensely bitter against all able bodied
persons showing disposition to evade mil
itary service.
THEIR ARTILLERY AND How THEY
USE IT.-The deficient resources of the
South, at the beginning of this war, to
provide field artillery, forced her Generals
to depend greatly upon fortifying with the
heavy guns seized at Norfolk aud other
points, but this ordnance was mostly of old
and inferior patterns, and the reduction of
the strongholds they defended with it by
our guns of heavy calibre and longer range,
soon convinced them they had either to a.