New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-17
THE BATTLE OF NASHVILLE
"REMINISCENCES OF HssToxx
eEgrRsLsH1P OF GRANT AND MoLELLka
The 81. Louis Democrat of the tWeina
contains the following dispatch:

The ST. Louis Democrat of the tWei1e-
contains the following dispatch:
NEW YosK, March 1.-THE Tribune to-
morrow will contain.a letter, evidently from
some one intimate ec9 ualnted oa, WIN Snho- m,n-
field. replying to the statements recently
published in the Cincinnati Gdze0e ano
other papers, relative to the Dattie OF NASH
Vile. The letter says that, while preparing
to attack Hood during the siege, the onsy
practical question was as to the strengtn
which should be given to the attacking
force. or the number OF men necessary 10
be left comparatively idle; and III this zen
eral Thomas made a mistake or Iuh Ten
thousand men. Upon the error being ex-
planned to him, he gave verbal orders for Iss
correction, so far as to place the surplus ten
Thousand men in reserve near the attacking
force. when it lay idle from early in the
morning until three o'clock in the afternoon.
at that time Thomas discovered that his at
tacking force was not sufficient, ana ordered
nm the reserve. Had his error been fully
corrected by putting in the ten thousand
idle men in the morning, it is safe to say
that the success would have been mucn
greater.
| the pursuit of Hoods army, and says tnas
after Hood had escaped, General ThomaS
| announced the campaign ended. ordered tnS
| troops into winter quarters, and began
| planning a campaign against Corinth for the
| next spring and summer. General Schoneids
| apparently not appreclatlDg such mooe oa
| pros ecuting the war, on the tWenty-slxtn os
| december wrote to General Grant, saying
| Hood WAS then used up, and even by spring
| could not reorganize and recruit up force
capable of coping with Thomas army, less
| his corps. the twenty third, urging that Mo-
bile instead of Nashville was the point frona
which to operate against the Gulf States, If
indeed such operations had not become I'm
necessary that in fact Lees army was
abont ali there was left of the rebellion, and
the true policy was to concentrate against
Lee. and asking to be transferred with his
corps to the Atlantic. On the seventh OF
January, 1865. General Grant telegraphed
to General Thomas to send Schofeld ana
his corps east, and about the same time
ordered the fourth corps to the Gun. Inus
| ended Thomas plan tor campaign during
The summer efter the close OF the war. The
Tribune editorially disavOws the above con-
, clusions of its correspondent
POLLARD ON THE GENERALsHIP OF GRANT ANB
MCCLELLAN.
Edward A. Pollard. the Confederate his
| torian, has written letter to the ITa0ssns,
replying to the recent charge that General
| Grant would have been defeated had he
been in McClellan's place in the first year OF
the war. He says that in February, 1852
General Mcclellan had in his front, to dis
pute his passage to Richmond, a force which
numbered, of all arms, little more than
27, 600 men, and when he went down to
| Yorktown and opened another campaign
the army that then opposed him was exactly
1900 men, while the army to oppose Grant
in 1864, was over $1,000 strong, and Of the
best material and that the South was really
conquered by the acts of Jefferson Davis
/ occurring principally after General Grant
/ had fought the most important battles o.
. | the campaipn.