. The Civil War : the national view . tanooga, August 28th, pushed onrapidly through the Cumberland Mountains and on Sep-tember 13th reached Glasgow, Kentucky, followed by Buell,both armies straining to reach Louisville. Bragg delayed tocapture Munfordville, Buell caught up with him; Braggdeclined a battle and turned toward Bardstown, while Buellhastened on to Louisville, which he reached on the , Bragg was learning that Kentucky was not Con-federate at heart—all his efforts to win reinforcements andto provoke a rising against the Union failing. Yet the Statewas almost equally di
. The Civil War : the national view . tanooga, August 28th, pushed onrapidly through the Cumberland Mountains and on Sep-tember 13th reached Glasgow, Kentucky, followed by Buell,both armies straining to reach Louisville. Bragg delayed tocapture Munfordville, Buell caught up with him; Braggdeclined a battle and turned toward Bardstown, while Buellhastened on to Louisville, which he reached on the , Bragg was learning that Kentucky was not Con-federate at heart—all his efforts to win reinforcements andto provoke a rising against the Union failing. Yet the Statewas almost equally divided in sentiment, and both Braggand Smith were present at Frankfort at the inauguration ofthe Confederate provisional governor—the State having beenadmitted into the Confederacy and being represented in theConfederate Congress. The Union army met the Con-federate at Perryville, October 8th, but Buell had not ex-pected a battle there. Bragg fell back on the 9th but was noteffectively pursued. The Confederate invasion of Kentucky. <5: .y txD _c ■^ !U s^ ^~ THE SECOND YEAR OF THE WAR 285 had failed. On October 3d, General W. S. Rosecransrepulsed a Confederate attack on Corinth. These successes,of rather a negative character, in the West did not satisfypublic expectation, and Lincoln indited, through Halleck, avigorous communication to Buell, directing him to greateractivity; to possess control of Eastern Tennessee, plainlytelling him that he should be able to live in a country inwhich the Confederates could live, to march w^here theymarched and to fight as well as they fought. Halleck, andapparently Lincoln also, had the idea that the army couldlargely subsist on the country in which it was operating—asystem, which, if carried out, would have antagonized Unionsentiment both in Kentucky and Tennessee, as it must havesunk into mere pillage and destruction. Buell was unpopu-lar, though able, and his enemies were on his track. Theyincluded not only his military rivals b
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