The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-03


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Antietan or
Sharpsburg. ........ s7.16l Pass BIZ $3.50
! Chicknmauga. ....-... 5000 l3s"i go 1920
cod harhor ...... .- Is! 'o5 w. ioU w i,03
renk ~ i- - IN 10 n -
Gecoy'i W6nasSas 10 000 800 I'd 0oI f05J
Murfreesboro or
stone River ..-..-- 70 400 II 59s 49, o l0125
Nashville ...-...;.... 5000 2lio 10000 1900
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st MN ' 'G G 10 ,i= or 40 , S3
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and Wilderness |l50 900 q 1qs| - 600 20 400
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so as 10 lake ia pAJtIes OF greater HIoiiLeHU L.
! or nave suuSlltuleu at least Two oInerS
Tor those mentioned.
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| or ny appropriation Sniuh / am SuS-
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SHOWING rouno huIHoerS' tne NUMBERS
/ gwen IA Vho Seven Ndl > RI, Udtti ~ 05 wen
/ HIohu' '7VNuHu Nlai'9Sc9' luo w lIucII'eSS
ana oVhcrS' WHO NuIl rees Qoro ana
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Si'.'u are lo1eO ""E ,i u NloSo 70 CurdCy as
/ nc ny ~ % 'uSH toU H'o IiSe - lIou IA
/ VhtoiotoElcdl otucr mas hothlhR TO 90
/ WIN the merit OF me case out the accu-
| ragY OIL some OF ms igureS heeu cQrreGVloh.
IA UuS hIthuIoH1 odl'es' Ool Moore MOOR
places Tue feIatlNe forces Ieuerdi luo'o1V'
.omlciGI"'t '''o0o' p'Sl Illo rIll' ION 0n-
| sdIHuott EiNes UHtSo armies. 1l3'Iu|
| ieuefaIs' o4'o- eohleueraIeS' snow
ing III tie aggregate "a leu-
/ cI"I prcIo"ucr4hOe o. +'''4V more
troops. IN each OF these series or
NtCleIlah' oehlhu WORKS tnaU must al
! ways remain a, lIlohunlehl TO ms genius as
| an engineer oihCet, was ioIceu from post
t,oh TO positioh ana nhaiIy. driven under
inc protection oil ms Heet IN James river
ms HE uIeS 'or oetoHu manassas leu
eral DO'Vov: confederate 4o'Ooo) are not ac,
cuIdIe. NJ, quad an authority IN clVll
war s1&ustcS' says rope army 70
ReVnSt WIN tne fe-ehIorcenehts hurried
! nun from -AcOIeIIan, rom OroVeton' un-
Vil ms oeateh army Sought safety oehihu
the irownlng works around Washington,
! mum oefeu l=uOoU' or JUST uouple une
FORCES given oJ Col moore Inc Con1ed-
crate army AT second Manassas pore on
us rolls b9,o" men yet history tells the
story ana lts bloody sequel or That san
gulhary oattIe' Col; Moore places lee
losses IN thlS pattIe o'Ooo' yet gives MN IN
the next pdllle lohoWlhg, SharpsourR,
DuV Ihreo weeks later oo'Io', making no
aIIoWahce Tor the losses at Cfampton
ana urher Gaps, Bo0nSOoro ana the
storrnlhg anu capture OF harper ferry.
! BEST authority gives Mcclellan AT SharpS-
burg' as stated by Col Moore Sf,164,
| Wnlle Lee army from ltS nerCe cam
| PalSh from second Manassas TO SharpS-
burg, brought into line but 1920,
nearly nail OF whom came INTO
action on the run so rapidly dld they
march from Harper's Ferry TO Long
streets assistance. Col Moore places
Lee losses AT Sharpsburg at 10 V9. III
this be accurate, then Mr. Lincoln was
Just in censuring Mcclellan for allowing
Lee ana his ragged remnant TO escape.
Common sense Will readily show the i'm
| posslolnty OF Lee standing grlmly on the
defensive on Sept. Il, the day following
the bloody Sharpsburg fight with less
than 10000 men, against McClellan's -,
900 ALLOWING losses for sept ~. We
must accept the figures of President Davis
and Col. Walter Taylor (35, POO as against
those shown by Col Moore.
fredericksburg, though omitted by Col.
! Moore, Is too conspicuous in American
! history 10 be rejected as a test battle. ="
True, Lee had Out-marched and out-gen-
eraled Burnside, but that cuts no figure
in the statement that Lee had recruited his
army up to 10000 men and fortified a
naturally strong position. Public clamor,
that hydra headed monster forced Burn
side to action. In his testimony before
the congressional committee on the con
duct of the war, the federal commander
testified he had crossed 100, 900 troops and
thrown them upon Lees lines and to a de-
feat more bloody and crushing than the
! Potomac army had ever experienced. ]
will again quote M Quad" as authority.
He indorses Burnside's figures and states
further that not more than 10000 of lees
10000 We're actually engaged.
The strong position al Fredericksburg
and the result of Burnsides disaster
Justified Lee in detaching Longstreet
with more than one half of his corps for
service near Suffolk, Va Hooker was
not ignorant of this and having recruited
the Potomac army up to standard never
before attained, felt justified in his
Rrandiloquent dispatch TO Halleck: THE
rebel army is now the legitimate prop