Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-07-27
uUNTER,s VIRGINIA. oAmPA1GN.

Rebel ReUieW of the Recent Operations IN
Western Virginia-Ihe Mastery Plans of
General Grdnt-Efect of MorgdH's Dash
into Kentucky, DC.
From the Richmond Examiner, July u.
Nor yet is the campaign fully under
stood which has occurred in that part of
Virginia west of the Blue Ridge, extending
from the Potomac to the Tennessee and
Kentucky lines. How that country has
escaped utter desolation, under the militia
~ direction of the Auld Council, which
until recently issued orders from this city,
seems now an unfathomable mystery. The
Central directory seems to have been to.
tally blinded in regard to the eremy's
schemes, both for May and June, in that
quarter; and nothing but plumber and des-
truction marked the progress of the CAM
paigu, until three Yankee armies combin-
ed were actually laundering at the gates
of Lynchburg, when our generals in that
quarter, fortunately and TO the joy of the
Inhabitants, began to receive orders from
another voice. 81
That the designs of the enemy upon the
western country may be fully understood,
it is proper to republish sketch of Grants
plan of campaign for this region, as di-
yulged by one of their military correspon-
dents, which was once before given in these
columns, and which has been completely
authenticated by the actual movements.
The writer several weeks ago declared
as follows:
The theory which limits General Grants
plan of the campaign to the capture Of
Richnond does but half justice. BE may
capture the rebel capital without capturing
the rebel government machinery, and with
out oYerthroWing Lees army. In that
event further active and prompt opera
tions will be necessary. General Grant
foreseeS this and has provided for it, 'i
The second movement CGrants being the
first) is that of Sigel and Stahel up the
Shenandoah valley towards Staunton, with
the view first Of taking possession of the
Virginia Central railroad, and ultimately
effecting o lodgment upon the Virginia
and Tennessee railroad ct Lynchhurg.-
The third is that of AYerill moving to-
wards the same great railroad with de-
sign of striking Il at Salem. The fourth
mat of General Crook, who is moving with
strong force and large supplies from
Charleston towards Newbern, dublin de-
pot, on the same road. The tifthr that OF
Major Gallup, moving up the Virginia side
of the Big Sandy, towards Abingdon on
the same road.
! In one single phEtlCulAH uiN hAiS -~N-
commit an error. The movement from
Kentucky, by way Of the Big Sandy, was
/ a much more important one than to be en-
trusted to major. 1t was to have been
made by an army of seven thousand troops
I-iufantry, mounted infantry, cavalry and
artillery-under command of major
general, and the general has since become
known to fame under the name of Bur
bridge. In another particular was the
plan altered and enlarged, namely :-in the
movement from Winchester entrusted e
Sigel. 1t was altered by the defeat which
that general received in Nay at New Mar
ket from Breckinridge; it was enlarged BY
the subsequent augmentation of its forces
by several thousand troops, drawn IRON
the extreme Northwestern States, and BY
the appointment of General Hunter, al
officer of higher rank, to its command-tht
same Hunter, by the by, who inauguratet
negro enlistments and miscegenation II
i the Department of Beaufort, South Caro-
lima, as early as the first winter OF th'
war. Too
The invasion thus planned for Western
Virginia comprehended heavy aggregate
iof forces. First, there were the sever
Thousand of Burbridge from Kentucky
twelve hundred of whom actually got int
virginia through Pound Gap; and mex
there we're the six thousand of Crook
which came from the lower KanaWhs:-
These last were Joined by ATerll VIII