. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . himself to the front, Polk remained snuglyensconced in his defensive position, while Crittenden marched back andforth before him with what the Confederate General Hill calls, delight-ful unconsciousness that he was in the presence of a force of superiorstrength. But it was not alone because of his failure to demolish the scat-tered divisions of his enemy that these movements were unfortunate forBragg and his cause. The narrow e
. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . himself to the front, Polk remained snuglyensconced in his defensive position, while Crittenden marched back andforth before him with what the Confederate General Hill calls, delight-ful unconsciousness that he was in the presence of a force of superiorstrength. But it was not alone because of his failure to demolish the scat-tered divisions of his enemy that these movements were unfortunate forBragg and his cause. The narrow escapes of Crittenden and Negleywarned Rosecrans that his antagonist was not making a disorderlyretreat but was really concentrating and preparing to give him into frantic activity by the discovery, Rosecrans sent out vigor-ous orders providing for the immediate .concentration of his whole Union army was almost instantly put in motion. Longand rapid marches were made, and by the i8th the greatest danger waspassed and a substantial concentration of the army efTected. To allthis activity on the part of his foes Bragg was seemingly blind. He. IN THE TKLNCHES. BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. 307 allowed after clay to pass without striking the blow he had orderedPolk to strike on the 13th, and which might have been delivered withequal effect on any one of the two or three days following. So firmlyrooted in his mind was the idea that Rosecrans was doing nothingtoward rectifying his positions, that, when General Longstreet reportedto him some highly im[)ortant and correct information concerning thewhereabouts of the hY-derals obtained in a reconnoissance by ColonelBaylor, the Confederate commander exclaimed petulantly, ColonelBaylor lies. There is not a Union infantry soldier south of to this opinion he obstinately adhered until it was too late toprevent the concentration of Rosecranss army. The night of the i8th of September saw long lines of blue-c
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