. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . agic telegraphforce of circumstances rather than of education or was cut, whieh prevented the possibility of orderspractice, yet of infinite use to his chief throughout of any kind from the rear coming to delay orthe war and up to the hour of his death as Seere- hinder us from fulfilling what I knew wascompara-tary of War, in 1869. General Rawlins was en- tively easy of exectition and was sure to be a longthusiastically devoted to his friends in the West- stride toward the goal we
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . agic telegraphforce of circumstances rather than of education or was cut, whieh prevented the possibility of orderspractice, yet of infinite use to his chief throughout of any kind from the rear coming to delay orthe war and up to the hour of his death as Seere- hinder us from fulfilling what I knew wascompara-tary of War, in 1869. General Rawlins was en- tively easy of exectition and was sure to be a longthusiastically devoted to his friends in the West- stride toward the goal we were all aiming at—ern army, with which he had been associated from victory and peace from Virginia to Texas. HeCairo to Vicksburg and Chattanooga, and doubt- was one of the many referred to by Mr. Lincolnless, like many others at the time (October, who sat in darkness, but after the event saw a1864) feared that I was about to lead his com- great light. He never revealed to me the doubtsrades in a wild-goose chase, not fully compre- he had had.—W. T. S. 258 THE GRAND STRATEGY OF THE LAST YEAR OF THE RATION-DAT AT CHATTANOOGA IN 1864. FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH. killed on the very parapets, to Schofields loss of 2326. Nevertheless hepushed on to Nashville, which he invested. Thomas, one of the grand charac-ters of our civil war, nothing dismayed by danger in front or rear, made allhis preparations with cool and calm deliberation; and on the 15th of Decembersallied from his intrenchments, attacked Hood in his chosen and intrenchedposition, and on the next day, December 16th, actually annihilated his army,eliminating it thenceforward from the problem of the war. Hoods losseswere 15,000 men to Thomass 3057. Therefore at the end of the year 1864 the conflict at the West was concluded,leaving nothing to be considered in the grand game of war but Lees army,held by Grant in Richmond, and the Confederate detachments at Mobile andalong the sea-board north of Savannah. Of course Ch
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