The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-04-11
General Rosecrans.

The distinguished officer who has recently resgned
his rank as Brigader- General in the Regular Army
WILL perhaps be referred 10 in after times con-
spcuous witness, if of the ingratitude of Repub
lies at least of the fact that like all ether pro-
fessions is good deal of lottery in which it is not
ALWAYS the deserving who win the substantial rewards
Victor in the first important engagement which re-
suited favoraby TO the Union in the of the
Rebellion pauner and executor of four distinct
paigns, three of which eminently successful;
hero of several great battles decidedly beaten
in any engagement, frank and resoue in has patriot
ism, and idozed by hundred thousand veterans who
fought under him, General Rosecrans, by a strange
combination of misfortunes has been in favor
with his official superiors, and never obtained
from the people fair recognition of his eminent
SERVICES. There are two things" said Abraham
Lincoln in 1884, 'ffor which can be grateful
''enough to General Rosecrans is the battle of
''Stone River, which accompanied my proclamation of
emancipation, and was the beginning OF cur perma-
''nent and the other is his letter to the Ind
'ana Legislature about the time, throwing all
"the weight of his name and fame against the Cop
.pe heads. For this he deserves the lasting gratitude
''of the nation We hope he may receive this graft
tude future day he certainly has not had it
yet. ~'n
IL was less than sixty days aftel the attack upon
Fort Sumter when he did his first great service in
western virginia Dy competing the surrender OF
gram at Rich Mountain. The planning and fighting
both exclusively his: the reward given to
Mcclellan. After the Great Deayer had been trans
erred to the Potomac Rosecrans fought the battle of
Carnfex Ferry, drove Wise, Floyd, and Lee across
the mountains, finished the campaign with brilliant
rapidity, and when there Lardy a rebel picket
lett on this side OF the Allegheny Mountains,
ieved for no fault OF his own, that Mountain De-
partment might be created for Gen. Fremont He
fought and the battle of Iuka in September, 1862
while his superior officer, Gen. Grant, lying in
active with his troops four miles from the field Of
hict, and although for this engagement be made
major general of volunteers, there sprang out of II
misunderstanding with General Grant which has had
much to do with the marrng of all Rosecraas's SUBJ
sequent career. Tn. next month Corinth he beat
Van Dorm and Price with but little than half as
many men his adversaries, gaining the most i'm
portant victory of the up to that time. Recalled
from the puasuit, greatly against his Judgment,
by Gen. Grant, he relieved of his command nine
days after the battle and ordered to Cincinnati.
Two months after his appointment October 80, TO
the command of the Fourteenth Corps at Bowling
Green, KY, he had converted demoralized rabble
into magnificent army, and led it the Cum
beriand. The four days battle of Stone River
won not more by the nrePidity of the soldiers than
by the personal valor and skill of Rosecrans himself
paign of the Summer of 1858, by which he drove
Bragg's army out of Middle Tennessee, and across
the Tennessee River. The battle of Chickamauga in
September bloody encounter, in winch both
sides too badly crippled to continue the fray but
it secured in the possession of Chattanooga, the
objective point of the campaign and the key of all the
country south of the Cumberland Mountains. Never
theless, Rosecrans again relieved of his COM
mand, an for several months allowed to remain
in obscurty. Then he sent to Missouri, where,
beside doing efficient military SERVICE he discovered
the secret conspiracy of the Knights of the Golden
Circle Yet he removed, and has
had a command since.
Whether Gen. Rosecrans's unfortunate relations
with the War Department and the Headquarters of
the Army to be traced any fault OF his own, We
have of knowing. We only know that of
al, our generals he has uniformity been one of the
most fortunate in the field and of the most I'M
fortunate everywhere else and that his retirement
ought to awaken in a double regret that we have
lost the services of accomplished Officer, ana have
rewarded SO inadequatey what he has done for us
heretofor,.--TN. Y. Tribune. ftr zFs -=7