Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-10-08

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For SIX months: 9o
The Great BATHS of Chickamauga.
Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatch.
NEAR CHATr ASooeA, Tenn,
Sept 23d, 1868.
The most important battls of the war. after
that of the first of Manassas, has asst been
fought aud wen by the Confederate arms. Ths
result is teld in q word There is longer
armed enemy on the soil of Georgia! Only the
Federal dead, wounded aud prisoners,
maio. Tns mu!tltudinous host, swelling with
confidence and PRIDE, who lately invaded that
powerful State, threatening TO overrun her ter
ruory and devas,ase her homes, has been de-
teateo and forced to seek refuge behind barri-
cades aud oreastworks along the banks OF the
Tennessee river. Let every heart in all our
suffering land give tharks to Almighty God
for H,s great kinduess for TINS sguai deliver
SBce!
Having been detained on the route, arrived
upon the field too late to witness the battle.
am also almost wholly unlmiostned OF the ~r-
ganzatiom of the various corps, divisions aud
bryades whea compose the Army ot Iennes-
see. Under thess circumstances | am constrain
ed to rely, in great part, upon the statements
ot others who were IN a position 30 be we'll IN
formed, and do not pretend to speak with alb
solute CERTAINTY, to enter much into detail.
But there is one fact which may be affirmed
with great confidence and emphasis, to wit !:
that the Confederate troops never fought bet~
ter, nor did any other troops upon any other
battle field ever conduct themselves with high
or courage or more distinguished gallantry.-
Lonastreet's veterans and Biagg's braves
tered into generous rlvai,y, aud each strove
10 set az example OF daring and to ould0 the
otber The one rushed to the conhlct with
thar old battle hags, bearing upon their ample
folds the Inscription oil the hfst ano second Ma
nassas Sc yen Pines, Malvern Hill, F,edercks>
burg aud charlottesville, and fully resolved to
wave tnus.. glorious standards in triu,n pn over
w es ern, as they had already done over an
Eastern toe The other, conscious OF their own
manhood, and yielding TO none in high resolve
aid auntless courage, yet stung by the MEM
ory of fortner disasters, went upon the neId
with their minds and hearts fully made up he.
er to QUIT it but vctors, nor uhui they mao
proved TO all the world that they were the wor
tn, brotners OF the heroes "t the Chiekaho,nins
aud the Raprahaanock. Before men thus anl-
mated aud thus resolved, many Of whom (theI
Geurula,,s) fought in view of their household
gods. nothing cnad stand and live. Tbeir
fierce battle cries rung out above the DIN ano
nproar Of the mighty strlfe---ths trumpet note
OF victory to Confederate arms, and the kneii
OF defeat and death to the enemy. Great CLOUDS
OF yellow dust and blue smoke from the guns
and burning words euvelcped the field aud the
strass ling conbatan.s, and ascending from the
pans, settled upon the crests OF the bills AND
mcuntains il festoons of fantastic shape; but.
deep as was the gloom, there Were hashIns
eyes there that sa~ through it all, and folio"-
&c with steady gaze the path that led TO VIC
tory.
Nor were Bragg and Longstreet ipsensible
10 the feeling whicn animated their followers
To them it was the las. opportunity to reverse
the decreas of a hitherto unpropitious fortune;
to the ether it was new field of hope and am
bitiou, where another blow might be struck tor
his country, and fresh laureis gathered for his
own brow. Each did his duty nobly. IS did
all their officers and men, aud the rewards of .
grateful country await thsm. Only portions OF
two oil Lof gs reefs divisions arrived in time 10
take part in the fight, but they were a host
within themselves Thsy were Benniag's Laws
and Robsrtsbn's brigades. Of Hoods tdiv.sion
and Kershaw's and Hunpres's . brigades, OF Me-
Laws. But let us proceed with the battle.
Il 10 already known that Gen. Bragg dseued
it prudent to withdraw his forces frera Chatsa.