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Rosecrans's march to join me Reaches Cross Lanes Advance against Floyd Engagement at Carnifex Ferry My advance to Sunday Road Conference with Rosecrans McCook's brigade joins me Advance to Camp Lookout Brigade commanders Rosecrans's personal characteristics Hartsuff Floyd and Wise again "Battle of Bontecou" Sewell Mountain The equinoctial General Schenck arrives Rough lodgings Withdrawal from the mountain Rear-guard duties Major Slemmer of Fort Pickens fame New positions covering Gauley Bridge Floyd at Cotton Mountain Rosecrans's methods with private soldiers Progress in discipline.
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He had been out of the army for some years before the rebellion, and was acting as professor of mathematics in St. Xavier's College, Cincinnati, when he was appointed to the colonelcy of the Twenty-third Ohio upon Rosecrans's promotion. Like Rosecrans, he was a Roman Catholic, though himself of Puritan descent.
I like to see any man start into a game with a full hand and a big stack o' chips." "Well, from the talk that comes down from headquarters," said Si, "he may need every man. We've never had enough men so far. The rebels have always had more men than we did, and had the advantage of position. We only won by main strength and bull-headedness, and Rosecrans's good management.
By it Bragg lost a fine large division of cavalry, that, if added to Buckner's force, already equal to Burnside's in East Tennessee, might have defeated Burnside; or, if thrown across Rosecrans's flanks or long lines of supply and communication, or used in reconnaissance on the Tennessee River, might have baffled Rosecrans's plans altogether.
General Burnside was directed to move simultaneously, connecting his right, as far as possible, with General Rosecrans's left so that, if the enemy concentrated upon either army, the other could move to its assistance.
In General Rosecrans's campaign against General Bragg, it was a matter of importance to him to cut the railroad lines and destroy bridges, arsenals, etc., in Bragg's rear. He wished particularly to cut the railroads leading from Chattanooga to Atlanta and Nashville, and thus prevent the free movement of troops.
To omit Rosecrans's name and to substitute Thomas's was equivalent to a public condemnation of the former. Garfield had been promoted to be major-general for his conduct in the battle, and it was popularly understood that this meant his special act in volunteering to make his way to Thomas after Rosecrans and the staff were swept along the Dry Valley road in the rout.
Garesche's appalling death stunned us all, and a momentary expression of horror spread over Rosecrans's face; but at such a time the importance of self-control was vital, and he pursued his course with an appearance of indifference, which, however, those immediately about him saw was assumed, for undoubtedly he felt most deeply the death of his friend and trusted staff-officer.
When Rosecrans's last division was forming its échelons it was itself enveloped on its outer flank by the active foe. Rosecrans's line, as he formed it a division at a time, had been constantly outflanked. The battle was a failure thus far. We could all see that, and some of us saw how nearly it became an irretrievable disaster.
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