The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-07-21

which the officer In command ha
less than half as large a number
Meantime General Cox to whom ha
been confided the task of holding th
KanaWha Valley, found himse
about to be overwhelmed by the C
operation OF the columns OF Wis
and Floyd, the former holding hi
front, the latter advancing so as {
menace his communications AM
having already oVerwhelmed AM
scattered to the four winds cOnsid
erable outpost under Col Tyler a
Gross Lenes.
General Rosecrans pramptly me
the emergency. Calling In outpost
and detachmentS everywhere he dit
what he could to strengthen Genera
Reynolds, and then trusting to tina
officer 8 sagacity not less than to hi
admirably fortified position, he let
him to cope with Lees threateneI
attack, collected such raw regiment
as were within his reach. and at TIA
head of seven and a half regiments
three Of which had just receives
their arms, marched southwark from
the line Of the N. w. Va. Road t.
the Kanawha, to the relief Of Gener
al Cox. By the 10th of Septembe
he had reached SomerYille, few
miles from Gauley, where he wa
duly informed by the frightened cit
iZens and scouts, that Floyd lay ;
few miles ahead of him, intrencheC
near Cross Lanes with force Of from
10, 600 to 1000 men. "We can't stoI
to count numbers, was his remarl
to one of his staff, 1--WE must figh
and whip him, or pass by him anC
join Cox"
The result was the battle of Car
mick Ferry, which was followed by
LEES RETREAT. - --
? Meantime the sagacity of his judg
ment concerning affairs at Chea
Mountain had been vindicated. Lex
had made partial attack and baC
been repulsed his able, strategl,
plan for combined movement thai
was to maneuver the National Com
mander out Of his intrenchments
had failed through want of cohesion
in the different parts, and abandon
ing the effort, Lee had hastily
marched southwark apparently with
q view Of concentrating Floyd's and
Wise's with his own, and over.
whelming Rosecrans. He soon had
Floyd's army, and, at the head O.
90 600 men, awaited Rosecran's ad,
vance at Mount SeWell. Uniting
with General Cox, General Rose
Grams was now able to muster only
about 10000, but he, nevertheless,
pressed hard on the enemy's front,
till terrible sstorm intercepted his
communications, and he judged II
prudent 10 retire to the junction OF
the GauIey and New Rivers. 9
SOUTHERN OPINIONS OF RosECRANs'
e. GENERALSHIP.
General Lee was now recalled and
sent to the Coast; the rebel forces
were all retired, and General Rose
Grams was enabled to put his troops
IN winter quarters, with scarcely q
rebel bayonet TO be found in the De-
partment ofsWest Virginia. No fur
ther comment on the campaign is
required than that which the enemy
himself supplied. The rebel annalist
Pollard says: The campaign, =
after its plain failure, was
abandoned by the Govern
lnent. ROSecIan was esteemed at
the South as one of the best Generals
the North had in the field. He was
declared by military critics, who
could not be accused of partiality, to
have completely out-generaied Lee,
who made it the entire object of his
to Surround the Dutch
- and his popular manners
and amiable department to our pris-
1neFs. on more than one occasion.
procured him the respect Of his enc
my.
IS REMOVED TO make ROOM FOR
--~' FREMONT.
) In April, 1862, under the pressure
which demanded Of Mr.. Lincoln that
John O. Fremont should not be
oanished the public service for de-
claring the principles of the Eman-
eipatl0n Proclamation sooner than
himself, General Roseerans was re-
lieved to make room for Fremont,
and ordered to Washington. -
Es TRANSFERRED TO THE DEPART.
e MENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI
= IS By the middle of Nav he
vas ordered to General HaiIeck be.
lore Corinth. For a General who
has commanded a Department, and
planned his own campaigns, to be
reduced not merely to the position
1f 3 subordinate, but to that of q.
sal boFdlnRte'5 subordinate, as General
R0seerans now was by his assign.
nent to the command Of some divis'
ions in General Pope's column, con.
the left wing of Halleck's
army, Is never a grateful change;
but the General bore il handsomely
was alert enough to be among the
very first In discovering the eVacua.
Hon Of Corinth and getting of troops
10 pursuit; kept his place in the ad.
vance till the enemy were found in
new positions; held this front till or
1eRed back to assume command of
the Army Of the Mississippi on the
departure OF General Pope for the
East. % -zI
GRANT, ''WHosE SUB
sERUENPILL-WILLWAs TO PROVE
so BALEFUL." EsEFt ga5.L e.
The departure of General Halleek
, little earlier to assume the General
ln-chief at Washington left General
Grant in chief command at the South
west, and thus for the first time
brought General RoSecrans into re-
lations with that ofneer, whose SUBJ
5equent iu-WiH was to prove so bale
full =
ONE OF GRANTS BLUNDERs.
Whether It was through his own
engHOssment with the civil cares of
his great department, or through the
chilling influence OF General Hat
leck's excess of caution, General
Grant suffered the rebels Quietly to
recuperate from the Generalization
into which they had been thrown by
the retreat from Corinth, the fall of
New Orleans and HatcheZ,
and IN their Own good time 10 as
sumo the defensive. hegsz' c1ss--sg. tiE
RETRIEVEs 1T AT THE
-o --s BATTLE OF IUKA. -
On the 10th Of September, General
Sterling Price, with a force of about
twelve thousand, marching north
ward, took Jacinto,l and moved on.
luka, a point on the railroad between
and Memphis. Rose
Grams, sending out q. reconnaissance,
under Colonel Mower, determined
that Iuka was occupied In force and
80 advised General Grant Mean
time it had been assertaIhed that
Earle Van Dorm, with another rebeI
column was rapidly advancing in
the direction Of COrfnth. By rapid
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