Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1864-01-15

We proclamation. This handful is to be
posted through all the rebel territory occu-
pied by us, and it is expected thousands Of
secesh will avail themselves of it.
The following is an epitoms of the official
report Of Gen. Roseorans Of the battle of
Chickamauga, showing;
|. That he maneuvred Bragg out of Chat
tanooga, but was obliged to fight him before
getting secure possession Of il himself--and
thus the stretching of his line, 80 much COM
planned of, was a part of the strategy which
accomplished the main purpose.
2 His own army was quite too small for
the work he had in hand, being largely out
numbered by the infantry force of the enemy
Hence much more depended upon active and
correct handling of his men than il his forces
had been sufficient. 1t is plain, too, that
while his dispositions were made to his mind
for the first day of the fight, and so succeed
ed, that on the second day there was some
thing of laundering by somebody, and that to
this the enemy owed all the advantage they
gained 1t would not be strange il it has to
be distributed somewhat; nor that it should
prove to be due to the extreme tension Of
brain and muscle to which all parties had
been so long subjected. Men bodily over
worked cannot always be themselves. The
country, too, was rough, broken, and unex-
plored.
8 His own losses Gen. Rosecrans puts
definitely down as SO pieces OF artillery. 20
caissons and 5000 stands of small arms.
Our loss in prisoners exceeded that of the en-
my $500, Of whom $500 we're wounded.
Aswe took 1000 prisoners, we lost of course
1900
4. There was no general defeat of the
.,t L -.
two brigad g., and a regiment, were routed,
and no more. All the rest of the army was
in position on the second night. Gen. Rose
Grams attributes the loss of so much artillery
to the broken nature of the ground, which
made it impossible to get it off under the
presence of superior forces
s. His REIMBURSEMENT Of the ground, after
the second day, was partly the result Of ns-
cessity and partly strategical His road to
Chattanooga bad been secured the first day
of the fight and had never been lost. The
fight was for the possession of this road. He
could have probably held his position where
it was the evening of the second days battle
But as his army had not been at any time
sufficient, and had been weakened by the rout
of one division, and no supports we're near,
aud as Chattanooga was the real object in
view, he deemed it prudent to withdraw into
it, and to relinquish the advantages of pos
sessing the battlefield.
That the enemy did not really gain the adj
vantages Of which they have boosted. is prov
ed by events subsequent to the hattie
PHrLADELPHIA, Jan. 10.
The Enquirer has the following
chattanooga, Jan. II. - Affairs in East
Tennessee are very exciting A very heavy
cavalry fight occurred near strawberry Plains /
last Monday. The enemy were repulsed |
with serious loss. Longstreet has been /
heavily reinforced from Lees and Johnston's /
armies. The reinforcements from Johnston's /
army are on the south side of the Houlsten .
river Longstreet's headquarters are at Red I
Ridge. Our pickets front each other at
Blar's cross roads, 90 miles east of Knox
vile. Our repulse at Bean Station was very
irfling. Longstreet's position is a splendid
Dne.
Forrest has been badly handled in West
and Middle Tennessee, but has managed to
escape with most of his command. The reb-
81 army in our front has been largely increas-
ed by conscrlpts. Johnston maintains bold
'front.' at Tunnel Hill Gen. Grant has left
Knoxville via Cumberland Gap making
complete circuit Of this Department. having
reached Knoxville via Chattanooga. The
army is In good condition and have plenty to
eat. The weather is fearfully cold, but there
is little sickness.
NEW YoRK, Jan. 10.
The Heralds dispatch says the Army of |
the Potomac is still subject to occasiona! in
cursions of the rebel guerrillas, but beyond |
this, quietude prevails there. few nights |
ago the rebels made dash into the camp Of
the Massachusetts, cavalry, near Warrenton, |
seventeen men, and thirty-ive hor-
SEES. The ensuing day another party struck .
upon the mule train of the LIST Maine cavalry |
and captured four or five men. Desertons !
in the rebel army continue
Dispatches from Gen. Kelley's Depart /
ment in Western Virginia yesterday, state .
that scouts report Early falling back up the
Shenandoah Valley The latest news from
Kanawha Valley is very encouraging.
A Washington letter to the Tribune says |
it has been decided TO remove the rebel cap
tal to Columbia, South Carolina. The wri-
ter is union man, lately from the South |
where he had been a clerk in the rebel War
Department. He also says that the gunboats |
md iron cads, at Richmond are, with one ex-
;eption, ready for service. On the 5th ult. /
they were ordered to make demonstration
N Hampton Roads, but after proceeding few |
miles, the order was countermandod.