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Grant had sent General Rawlins, his chief of staff, from Petersburg to St. Louis to see that A. J. Smith's corps went promptly forward from Rosecrans's department. Louis on the 10th, but even this was much sooner than they reached the river. We occupied the fine open wood on rolling ground, and made ourselves as well acquainted with the village and surrounding country as time would allow.
Yet I found he had reached the same judgment of his mental qualities and his capacity as a commander which I had formed at an earlier day. Rosecrans's perceptions were acute and often intuitively clear. His fertility was great. He lacked poise, however, and the steadiness of will necessary to handle great affairs successfully.
About half of Pegram's men had succeeded in passing around Rosecrans's right flank during the night and had gained Beverly. These, with the newly arrived Confederate regiment, fled southward on the Staunton road. Garnett had learned in the evening, by messenger from Beverly, that Rich Mountain summit was carried, and evacuated his camp in front of Morris about midnight.
How trying, after hours of hard fighting, to see the lines waver and behold the Rebels move victoriously over the field! with disaster setting in, and to know that all that is worth living for is trembling in the scale! There are such moments in battle. General Rosecrans's army was outnumbered.
If these forces had been sent to General Rosecrans by Nashville, they could not have been supplied; I therefore directed them to move by Corinth and the Tennessee River. The necessity of this has been proved by the fact that the reinforcements sent to him from the Army of the Potomac have not been able, for the want of railroad transportation, to reach General Rosecrans's army in the field.
He noticed the report of Ewell's coming against him and promised stout resistance, finding satisfaction in the thought that it would give Meade the opportunity to strike a decisive blow against Lee's reduced army. He reported the condition of his trains and cattle droves on the road from Kentucky, and the contact of his cavalry in the south part of the valley with Rosecrans's outposts.
An impulsive man is too apt to meddle with details, and so to weaken the sense of responsibility in the intermediate officers, who hate to be ignored or belittled before the soldiers. But if Rosecrans's method was not an ideal one, it was at least vigorous, and every week showed that the little army was improving in discipline and in knowledge of duty.
Rosecrans's entire force still numbered only 11,000, and he deemed it prudent to concentrate his army around St. Louis. General Ewing's forces and a portion of General Smith's command occupied Pilot Knob. On Monday, the 24th of September, 1864, Price advanced against this position, but was repulsed with heavy losses.
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.
Organizing and arming the loyalists Burnside concentrates near Greeneville His general plan Rumors of Confederate reinforcements Lack of accurate information The Ninth Corps in Kentucky Its depletion by malarial disease Death of General Welsh from this cause Preparing for further work Situation on 16th September Dispatch from Halleck Its apparent purpose Necessity to dispose of the enemy near Virginia border Burnside personally at the front His great activity Ignorance of Rosecrans's peril Impossibility of joining him by the 20th Ruinous effects of abandoning East Tennessee Efforts to aid Rosecrans without such abandonment Enemy duped into burning Watauga bridge themselves Ninth Corps arriving Willcox's division garrisons Cumberland Gap Reinforcements sent Rosecrans from all quarters Chattanooga made safe from attack The supply question Meigs's description of the roads Burnside halted near Loudon Halleck's misconception of the geography The people imploring the President not to remove the troops How Longstreet got away from Virginia Burnside's alternate plans Minor operations in upper Holston valley Wolford's affair on the lower Holston.
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