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At the time of the reception of the order, Rosecrans was busy with preparations for a movement to open the direct road to Bridgeport having received in the interval, since we came back to Chattanooga, considerable reinforcement by the arrival in his department of the Eleventh and Twelfth corps, under General Hooker, from the Army of the Potomac.
The Texans at Antelope Peak never returned to carry the "Stars and Bars" across the Colorado. Vain boasters! While Bragg toils and plots to hurl himself on Rosecrans in the awful day of Chickamauga, where thirty-five thousand dying and wounded are offered up to the Moloch of Disunion, Valois bitterly reads Hardin's account of the puerile efforts on the Pacific. It is only boys' play.
When Rosecrans reported the result of this council to Halleck, the latter reminded him of the maxim that "councils of war never fight," and that the responsibility for his campaign rests upon a commanding general and cannot be shared by a council of war.
"I don't seem to see anything treasonable so far," said the General. "Sergeant, take the rest of your prisoners up to the Provost-Marshal, and leave this man with me." "Gen. Rosecrans," said a familiar voice, "you ordered us to report to you this mornin' at 10 o'clock. We're here." The General looked up and saw Corporal Si Klegg and Shorty standing at a "salute."
Condition of Kentucky and Tennessee Halleck's instructions to Burnside Blockhouses at bridges Relief of East Tennessee Conditions of the problem Vast wagon-train required Scheme of a railroad Surveys begun Burnside's efforts to arrange co-operation with Rosecrans Bragg sending troops to Johnston Halleck urges Rosecrans to activity Continued inactivity Burnside ordered to send troops to Grant Rosecrans's correspondence with Halleck Lincoln's dispatch Rosecrans collects his subordinates' opinions Councils of war The situation considered Sheridan and Thomas Computation of effectives Garfield's summing up Review of the situation when Rosecrans succeeded Buell After Stone's River Relative forces Disastrous detached expeditions Appeal to ambition The major-generalship in regular army Views of the President justified Burnside's forces Confederate forces in East Tennessee Reasons for the double organization of the Union armies.
General Halleck had, long before my coming into this new field, ordered parts of the 11th and 12th corps, commanded respectively by Generals Howard and Slocum, Hooker in command of the whole, from the Army of the Potomac to reinforce Rosecrans. It would have been folly to send them to Chattanooga to help eat up the few rations left there.
He contended, moreover, that a raid into Indiana and Ohio, the more especially as important political elections were pending there, would cause troops to be withdrawn from Rosecrans and Burnside for the protection of those States. But General Bragg refused permission to cross the Ohio, and instructed Morgan to make the raid as originally designed.
General Grant was again displeased with him, and never became fully reconciled. General Rosecrans was soon after relieved, and transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, in Tennessee, of which he afterward obtained the command, in place of General Buell, who was removed. The effect of the battle of Corinth was very great.
"Undoubtedly so," said Colonel Winchester, who felt at this moment not as if he were speaking as colonel to sergeant, but as man to man, "and I hope that our artillery will be ready again. It is what has saved us. We have always been superior in that arm." The colonel had spoken the truth, and the fact was also recognized by Rosecrans, Thomas and the other generals.
Rosecrans had begun to feel the necessity of opening a new route to Bridgeport before he was relieved, and on the very day he laid down the command, he had directed Brigadier-General W. F. Smith, sent to him to be chief engineer of his army since the battle, to examine the river banks in the vicinity of Williams Island, six or seven miles below the town by the river, and to report upon the feasibility of laying a pontoon bridge there which could be protected.
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