The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-11-16
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h.d bssn bssa SI's eth
slaughter OF his tf6ops-over 1900 killed
and wounded, sco0fding to his report. 1--WE
awaited bis attaokiall the next day. but he
ilfprcements were marching to hiS Assistance,
wh;;;;o sssao1e T.s :: rc.eihiity Of reinforce
ments for General Lee; and the latter had the
Potomac Immediately in bis rear. He, there
@ Mcclellan pdIid aid nos 'S felioW 6im to ronew the the
battle. t3 st E
Some persons are disposed to consider this
campaign into Maryland g failure; but that
did not raise Maryland as we hoped, but that
Was not becsuse OF any reverse to our army.
The spirit OF resistance had. in great mea-
sure. died out in that State. The love OF
ease, money and the comforts Of life had be-
come stronger than the love OF liberty. Many
wished us success, provided it did not cost
them any great sacrifice; but there were very
few Sho S were disposed to Join u.s. even when
however, furnished many most gallant col
diers, who came South at the beginning OF the
war.
mas great success, though it did not &C.
compiish all We desired. When General Lee
took command of the army. the enemy had
invested the Confederate capital, and was in
5e.h relieved. tho enemy ;nyesting il driven
out OF the State, aud the Confederate COM
mander. at the CLOSE OF the campaign, stood
proudly defiant on the extreme Northern bor-
der of the Confederacy, while his SPPc:ent
had had his ''bsse" removed to the Northern
bank OF the Potomac, at q point moro than
ITS miles from the Confederate cs rital, as the
bird flies, and his army had been 30 crippled
that he was not able tD resume offon sive ope-
rationo for near two months When hia army
did move, General Leo gaa in 3 position to
interpoos and infiict at fredericksburg an
other signal defeat on tho invading for:s.
might multiply the instances of the at.
tempts OF our enemies to tal.ify tho truth of
history, in order to excuse their manifold
failures. and to conceal the inferiority OF
| their troops in all the elements of manhood,
but would become too tedious.
Tho world Csnnot be made to believe that q
population OF 5000000 could produce more
soldiers than one Of 22,000,0 900, especially
| when the latter had all the world besides to
recruit from This ID too much like the old
| story of the IrishInan who captured Eve men
by surrounding them all at one time.
Burnside WAS little doubtful which had
The numbers at fredericksburg, and he states
frankly: cit was found to be impossible to
get the mon up to tho works. The enemy u
lire was too hot for them." His force across
the river at The battle was 100000; ours was
very considerably smaller.
Joe Hooker-"Fighti,,g Joe." as he was
called-for a worder, did not claim that VIC
had the odds against him, when no crossed
the kaPpahaunock to Chanceliorsviile, and
| issued an order to his troops. stating that he
had the '.rebel army" just whore he wanted
1t, and would proceed to crush it-and then
| went back, under compusion, and ssid, with
great flourish OF trumpets, that the Army
! Of the Potomac was the custodian of it's own
honor; that it advanced when it pleased
| fought When it pleased and retired when il
pleased. Fighting Joe. however, said some
thing quite as amusing as the old story about
| superior numbers, which will give you. II
hafOra no mi Ga 1s
Conduct Of the War, he said:
| "Our artillery had alwayR been superior to
| that OF the rebels, as was also our infantry
| except in discipline, aud that, for reaso .Is
not necessary to mention. never did equa
Lees army. With rank and hle vastly infe
rior to our own. intellectually and ph. sically
that army mas, by discipline alone, acquired q
| character for stexdiness and efficiency unsur
| passed, in my judgment, in ancient or modern
times. We have not been able to rival it, MOI
has there been any approximation to it in the
other rebel armies"
! Hooker ID menifestly of opinion that the
| successes OF Lees army were due to it's supe
rior discipline, nOtwithst nding its inferiority
i'll numbers. and its vast inferiUrity, inteiiecta
ally dnd physically, to his own. He give.
another opinion which is n0t little amusing
and may throw some light Oh the subject. Ir
tho Same testimony, he says:
SOme OF our corps commanders, aud also
oficers Of other rank, appear to be un willing
to go into fight; in my judgment, there arc
not many who really like 70 fight"
This was said OF the army which was tho
custodian of it's own honor. It did not seem
to occur to Hooker, that, perhaps, there
might be snmething i'll the oft quoted ma kin
OF the great dramatic poet, who has said,
Thrice IL he armed that hath his quarre
just;
"And he but naked, though looked up III
steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupt.
| cd"
to explain the difference in the conduct Of the
| two armies.
At Gettysburg, Meade. with an a. my o
100000 at least, WAS outnumbered by ours
less than 60 600 strong; and he was very m ucl
relieved when General Lee, after drawn
| battle, determined to retro because Liz
ammunition was drawing short. When Grant
took command Of all the armies, he determined
to get rid OF the bugbear of superior mum.
bers, and to have the odds on his side, 80 that
he might destroy Us by the mere attrition o
numb bsrs, il nothing else. 1t WAS very costly
experiment to him, in that wonderful cam
paign, from the kapidsn to the James, where
the military genius Of General Lee, and the
fighting capacity and endurance OF his army
we're go conspicuously displayed-a campaign
which. in my opinion, stands unsurpassed in
| the annals Of warfare, for the marvellous ex
hibition OF all the clements Of the nj cat exait.
ed military genius, on the part OF our com.
mander, and the sublime courage and steadi
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