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This whole retreat, from Bowling Green to Corinth, a distance of nearly three hundred miles as traveled by the army, and occupying six weeks, was one of the most trying that an army was ever called upon to perform in its own country and among friends. The army was not far from 60,000 strong, after General George B. Crittenden's forces were added to it at Murfreesboro.
There was a big crowd in the lovely woodland over which hung the haze, and the music of horn and drum came forth to Crittenden's ears even that far away, and Raincrow raised head and tail and quickened his pace proudly. For a week he had drilled at Chickamauga.
Crittenden met and upbraided for his extravagance in municipal affairs, such conduct tending to bankrupt the city. It is Mr. Crittenden's pride that he has had no serious litigation, his care in making contracts having saved him the unpleasant necessity of resorting to legal means to compel his debtors to fulfil their obligations.
Crittenden has shown to be possible, furnishing good, well-paid work at home for the men who would be otherwise forced off into cities, our poor mountains have been lumbered every generation or so, on an immense, murderous, slashing scale, to make a big sum of money for somebody in one operation. When old Mr. Burton Crittenden's nephew came to town it was a different story. Mr.
But of course the commonplace that all dreams are expressions of suppressed desires is true. And it's very apparent that Mrs. Crittenden's desire is a very fine one for freedom and power and momentum. She's evidently not a back-water personality. Though one would hardly need psycho-analysis to guess that!" He changed the subject as masterfully as Neale could have done. "See here, Mrs.
"What!" the English reader will say, "sundry States in the Union refuse to obey the laws of the Union refuse to submit to the constitutional action of their own Congress?" Yes. Such has been the position of this country! To such a dead lock has it been brought by the attempted but impossible amalgamation of North and South. Mr. Crittenden's compromise was moonshine.
At the same moment hoofs beat the dirt-road behind him familiar hoof-beats and he turned to see Basil and Raincrow for Crittenden's Colonel was sick with fever and Basil had Raincrow now on their way with a message to Chaffee at Caney. Crittenden saluted gravely, as did Basil, though the boy turned in his saddle, and with an affectionate smile waved back at him. Crittenden's lips moved.
"I saw some pussy-willows out, today," answered Elly. The old woman and the little girl lifted their heads, threw them back, and looked up long into the sky, purely, palely high above them. "It's quite a sightly place to live, Crittenden's is," said Aunt Hetty. Elly said nothing, it being inconceivable to her that she could live anywhere else. "Well, good-bye," said Aunt Hetty.
Then Crittenden heard a familiar grunt behind him, and the next minute Bob's figure sprang out into the open making for the wounded man by the sympathy of race. As he stooped, to Crittenden's horror, Bob pitched to the ground threshing around like an animal that has received a blow on the head.
From the events of the day and evening of the 3oth, it was apparent that the two armies were in close proximity, and orders received during the night revealed the fact that Rosecrans intended to attack by throwing his left on the enemy's right, with the expectation of driving it in toward Murfreesboro', so that the right of Crittenden's corps could attack Bragg's centre in reverse, while Thomas supported Crittenden by a simultaneous front assault; and from the movements of the enemy at daylight next morning, it was plainly indicated that Bragg had planned to swing his left on our right by an exactly similar manoeuvre, get possession of the railroad and the Nashville pike, and if possible cut us off from our base at Nashville.
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