The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-01-24
NUMBER 4.


We have but one point more to make be-
fore concluding the eveE-memorable, ex.
pensive and yet grandly campaign
before Vicksburg It is this Had Grants
army after the victory at Champion Hill,
and upon reaching Big Black river. pushed
ahead after the &c nolalized and retreating
Rebels, they could have followed them into
Yicksburg, and taken the place without the
loss of regiment. In place Of this celori-
ty, halt was called the Rebels we're all
lowed time to recover. and dispose them
selves in their works 30 that when, two
or three days later, the Eortifcstions were
assaulted, We sustained bloody repulse,
and the seige of Vicksburg was prolonged
nearly two months.
There is general conclusion from this
Vicksburg campaign, to the following eff
| feet:
". The capture of VIcksburg was de-
layed unnecessarily for six months and
when it finally took place, was the result of
move that was originally unattended, and
afterward became necessity.
AT CHATTANOOGA.
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Af:er Rosecyans' terrible defeat at Chick
amauga. he was removed and Grant placed
in command. Badeau himself describes
what imme diately occurred. He says (page
47O):
"1He continent shock sgith tile tramp Of
advancing armies. Bridges were built in
Eastern cities for these soldiers to march
over engines were brought from Western
towns to transport supplies. The greatest
! rivers of the republic-the Tennessee, and
the Cumberland, and the Mississippi, and
the Ohio-.were crowded with steamers
bringing clothes and shoes to those who
were wearing out their garments in mighty
marches; and ammunition and food to re-
place what had already teeE expended in
the campaigns of Chattanooga. Over
half the territory in rebellion, through
these great mountain rangee, and by the
side of these rushing streams, along the
0esolated cornfelds, and amid the startled
reeesses of prime yal forests, the hustle and
stir of war were rife. ZaOO hulsdeos thousand
soldiers a0ere concentrating from tile East and
Hest, either IN motion for this one battlefield
Chattanooga or gaurdiDg its approaches
or buying up supplies, or waiting anxiously
for those who were, with them, to fight the
battle"
In this paragraph we have key to Grants
success at Chattanooga F; and, we NAV add
of his success at Vicksburg and before
Richmond. Suppose the continent had
been shaken with the tramp of armies ad-
vancing to relieve Rosecrans when he was
hemmed up at Chattanooga? TO what ex-
tent would Grants presence, or that of any
other man, been necessary TO eztricate him
from his difficulties? ...,-.t
Wherever Grant went, there was beard
the tramp Of advancing armies, Wherever
his headquarters were, thitherwards went
every available man from the Atlantic 10
the Missouri, and from the lakes to the Rio
Grande river.
The result Of the Chattanooga Gght is
well known. Bragg detached Loucstreet
to capture Burnside in East Tennessee. IL
He was then left with limited force to de-
fend position extending from Lookout
valley to Chicamauga river. After awhile,
the concentrating thousands, whose tramp
was shaking the continent marched against
him. Assaulted vigorously by Sherman
on his right, he was obliged to denude his
centre and left. through which poured the
swarm of Thomas and Hooker, and speedi-
] ly the victor of Chickamauga was in ful
retreat.
We do not baI;a,a ,h,t ornr a. =
dent admirers Of Gen. Grant claim for him
any particular display Of genius at Cbatta-
noOga. Bragg, weakened by his stupidity in
sending away LOngstreet, was simply in
undated by our columns, who swept him
away as mighty torrent carries away
straws and drif-wood. It was battle in
which the victors outnumbered the van
qdished Eve TO one.
The principal deduction from the brief
Chattanooga campaign is this
V. At Chattanooga. Grant reinforced to
enormous dimensions, carried weakened
position by sheer weight of numbers.
The WIFE.-It is ASTONISHING to see how
we'll man may live on a small income. Who
has handy and industrious wife. Some
men live and make far better appearance
on six or eight dollars a week, thar others
do on fifteen or eighteen dollars, The man
does his part gsii, but his wife !s good for
nothing, She will even upbraid her hus-
band for not living in as good style as his
neighbor, while the fault is entirely her
own. His neighbOr has neat, capable and
industrious wife, and that makes the differ
ence. His wife, on the other hand, is 3
whirlpool. into which great many silver