The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-06
between Los Angeles and Redondo

midway between Los Angeles and Redondo
Beach.
There. almost any day, he can be seen
stretched at full length on shaded ver-
anda, comfortably resting and passing his
days In peace. He was not well enough
to attend the reunion of the Army of the
Cum berland.
Commenting on his campaign the Free
mans Journal says:
The campaign which ended in the occupa-
ton OF Chattanooga and which included the
great battle OF Chickamauga was one of the
most brilliant OF the whole war, when the con-
dllons under which II was carried out are I'M
derstood. General Rosecrans started from
Murfreesboro on the oath OF June, 1868, with
the Army of the Cumberland, which had been
promised support from Burnside's army of the
Tennessee, General Bragg, the Confederate
commander, had been REINFORCED by troops
from Virginia under that brilliant and
able officer, General Longstreet Regard
less OF the counsels of Commanders, the
ciamor OF the press and the prin-
G G; -, OF military science, RosecTans,
sent TO dlslodge an enemy of equal
strength from country we'll known to him,
ana well adapted on account of its mountain
Gus character to defensive tactics. Governors
Austin OF Pennsylvania, Andrew of Massachu-
sets and Yates of Illinois offered to send Rose
Grams seven regiments of two-year veterans,
who were willing to re-enlist on condition that
they should go as mounted infantry to the
Army of the Cumberland, but Secretary Stan
ton, who was 1mplacably hostile TO its COM
mander, would not listen to the proposition.
General Lowell H. Rousseau bore letter to
the Secretary OF War explaining how very i'm
portant the service of such a body of men
would be in guarding the long line of commu-
nications which would have to be kept open in
the advance upon Chattanooga.
When the Secretary read General Rosecrans'
letter, he said to General Rousseau: ST would
rather you would come to ask the command of
the Army OF the Cumberland than to ask re-en-
forcements for General Rosecrans. He shall
not have another id man."
So the Army of the Cum berland set out alone,
and this, in brief, is what it accomplished un-
der the general to whom Stanton refused to
send "another ID man: Dislodged the
enemy from two strongly fortified camps
crossed the Cumberland Mountains, the Ten
nessee River, Sand Mountains and Lookout
Mountain; fought the battle OF Chickamauga (;
niuety-two days from starting from Murfrees-
boro. 119 miles away, held Chattanooga, the
objective of the campaign. Then Rosecrans,
IN campaign OF nipety-two days, secured and
held Chattanooga, the gate through which
Sherman and his army entered the Confederate
wall when starting for the sea.
At the most critical moment during the bat
tie of Chickamauga, General Rosecrans dashed
into the hottest of the fire TO rally the men of
Davis command who had begun to Waver be-
lore the terrific assaults of superior numbers
OF the enemy. young staff officer who &C.
companied Rosecrans begged him to retire TO a
SAFER place and not expose himself TO almost
certain death. To the expoStulation of the
young officer "Old Rosey" replied
Never mind me, boy, but make the sign of
the cross and go inl'
AS battlefield remark il is entitled to
be classed with Grants famous, "I'li fight
1t out on this line if it takes all summer"