The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-03-17
English Opinion Of Our Generals.

The unmeasured ridcule which the EDg.
llsh journals used to heap upon our Gener.
ais and soldiers no longer finds place, and
some Of them, indeed, have 80 changed
their minds as to express a hearty admira-
ton Of our military movements.
1n the last Edinburgh Review, for instance,
there is an elaborate dissertation on the
Last Campaign in America" 10 which the
writor gives no stipted praise to our lead.
ing Generals. Referring TO tho sneers with
which little minds used to speak Of tho war
in America. he says: 90. .t
The year has closed upon series of OPP
erations 80 vast in design and so interest
ing in detail that ii may he broadly asserted
that modern warfare affords none more
profitable as a study when viewed with due
reference to the condition of the struggle.
And the main particulars are already
made known to the world through reports,
public and private, as gastly superior in ac-
curacy and clearness to tho wild extrava-
gapces which filed the American journals
of three years since, as WelliDgton's dis.
patches to Napoleons bulletins. The New
York weekly paper, named at the head Of
this article, (tbe Army and the Navy Jour.
nal has alone more honest and painstaking
information as 10 the current campaigns,
than the whole press, North and South, con.
tanned in the days of Pope and Mcclellan.
The correspondence of one Of the CHIEF
Generals, Sherman, will certainly bear COM
parisou with anything of its class which
modern military literature can produce
while others are not far behind him.
Of Grant and the Vicksburg campaign,
tho writer remarks incidentally: 4
Meanwhile, another and surer path to
power in this great contest lay before
Sherman and bis chief in the West. The
sword of victory which Grant waved over
Vicksburg was destined to win him triumph
before the year should close. and to give
him tho upchallenged position Of the first
soldier in the Union. His late campaign
bad shown we'll planned strategy, tri-
umphing over great batnral difficulties and
elaborate defenses by the bold execution of
his march upon tho enemy's rear, and his
after patient watching. His next was to
prove him the ready General, who, at close
distance, can search out the weak points OF
his enemy'a position, and use his own forces
with tactical dcxterity to pierce them.
period of enforced retirementfrom severe
accident passed BY and found him restored
to duty at most critical juncture OF the
war. s
Again, Of Grants campaign at CbataDoo-
ga he says: s.
| The next six. weeks of tho campaign Of
Chattanooga are, however, of more lnte, Go,
by far than eur readers would perhaps ac
KIN owledge on their present information
We would say, therefore, that tho surprise
OF the rivor passage near Bragg's center by
Smith. and the maneuvring by which the
Confederate lines we're forced bS Grant .
month later at the battle of Chattanooga,
areas tactical achievements, fer filter to be
classed with the best feets Of Napoleon and
Wellington than any advantages won by
any European General since the days Of
those giants of war. We assert this with
out fear of any contradiction from those
who examine the subject With care and
give their verdict with candor. They will
find in the well-prepared and thoroughly
executed details of these offairs none Of the
blind. uncertain striking which won the Al
ma and Magenta"