The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-10
GEN. ROSECRANS.
How he Stands with the Army of the Oumber

How lie Stands with the Army of the Cumberland.
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / was much
pleased with Mr.. Furay's article IN The Ma
TIONAL TRIBUNE of Nov. 80 1t is well, even
at this late date, to pay tribute to the great
soldier who, time after time, organized an army
ont of a mob and grasped victory from the
arms of defeat. The great General who took
the demoralized Army of West Virginia, and
placing it on fighting basis, drove all organized
resistance out of that territory; who gathered
together the broken masses of the army OF
northern Mississippi and hurled back the
hOrdes of Price and Van Dorm in crushing de-
feat at Corinth and Iuka; who came to the
Army of the Cumberland when it was nearly
wreck on account of the strange conduct OF
its commander at the victorious failure at Per-
Fyville, and placed that army in few months
on probably as fine a fighting basis as any IN
the world who, by his splendid organization,
efficient spy service and mastery manuverlng
forced Bragg, with one of the best Confederate
armies in the field, to withdraw from his strong
position at Tuilahoma, and kept hlmmoVlng
across the Tennessee, selzlng the key to the
Confederate situation at Chattanooga, and
would then, with his little army of veterans as
d wedge have split the Conederacy In two had
not the inactivity of the Army of the Potomac
allowed the sending of Longstreet to their as
sistance to crush the indefatigable intruder.
And did they crush him? No. Beaten back
/ Dy vastly -Su peTlOr HuulDoISJ Nc hlbliu4Sn w
the Businesses of Chattanooga and turned at pay,
and Gen. Bragg, with all his array of strength,
was satisfied to take back seat and watch him
at a safe distance And then on half, and after
ward on quarter rations, the sturdy little army,
under Pap" Thomas, his ablest and most
/ trusted Lieutenant sat down to wait, with
never a thought of yielding the valuable posi-
tion won by their hard fighting and the SPLEEN
/ did generalship of their great leader
! At last the Government came to their relief
/ with reinforcements and the consequent open
/ ing up of the cracker Inns" while the grand
| giver of this good and perfect gift was COM
+ PEELED to sit back in his enforced retirement
and see the hard-earned laurels plucked from
| his brow and proudly worn by another Truly,
/ Republics are ungrateful
But until history shall render the fall meas
ure Of justice to the greatest strategist of the
age, the thinking bayonets of the old Army OF
! the Cumberland will never be satisfied. God
! bless Old Rosy" His was the hard fate to
1 SOW and cultivate that others might reap; but
/ he will always have a warm place iii the hearts
/ of those that remain of the 10000 boys he led
to victory when he had half a chance, and TO
/ glory always.
! Yes, comrades, while we remember Mission
! airy Ridge and Atlanta, let US not forget the
! grand old man who made those brilliant victo-
ries possible Though obscured under a cloud
| of that soldiers faint" jealousy, his name
/ will shine in the galaxy of the grandest aud
! best of the Nations defenders. 1t has been
said, and truly, too, that the best estimate of a
| military leader is to find out what your enemy
thinks of him, and Gen. Loring only echoed
the general sentiments of the military men oil
| the South in placing his achievements fore
most in the list of causes of their DOWNFALL
/ L. E. KNOWLES, Co. q, LIST Wis, Ness City, Kan