. Rosecrans.
surrender of Cumberland Gap.
Rosecrans fortifying Chattanooga.
Mr Seward on flag-of-truce boat.
Burnside evacuating East Tenn.
Rosecrans, who had advanced into Georgia, has fallen back on Chattanooga, which he is fortifying.
If he be not driven from thence, we sh0,000 men on the 5th inst., when he had not fallen back far from Chattanooga; since then he has received more reinforcements from Mississippi
A dispatch from Gen. Bragg, received today, three miles from Chattanooga, and dated yesterday, says the enemy occupies a strong position,n. Bragg, but there is reason to believe Rosecrans is fortifying Chattanooga, preparatory to crossing the river and retreating northward withthe enemy, at last accounts, toward Knoxville.
Between that and Chattanooga he may be intercepted by the right wing of Bragg.
The Presideved our cavalry is in his rear, and that we have the road below Chattanooga, cutting him off from his supplies.
The President sent for t
h we learn that one of Bragg's batteries, on Lookout Mountain, opened fire on the Federals in Chattanooga on the 5th inst., which was replied to briskly.
Night before last an attempt was made to more than eight or ten miles the next day, before it was halted, and ordered to march toward Chattanooga, after giving the enemy two and a half days to strengthen the fortifications.
Bragg's army rent energy and judgment in that quarter, He says it would be better to send reinforcements to Chattanooga, where it is practicable to conduct a winter campaign.
He could drive the enemy from the Pecorps, and Gen. Johnston were to penetrate into Middle Tennessee, forming a junction north of Chattanooga, it would end the war in three months.
October 30
We have nothing new to-day, except th will always sustain) is assigned to the Mississippi Department.
The latest accounts from Chattanooga show that the enemy are stirring a little, and trying to flank Bragg's left wing.
The bom
d meal would decline in price.
But a lethargy has seized upon the government, and no one may foretell the consequences of official supineness.
The enemy at Chattanooga have got an advantageous position on Bragg's left, and there is much apprehension that our army will lose the ground gained by the late victory.
The Commissolina, and there was some danger of the President being intercepted at Weldon.
Thousands believe that Gen. Bragg is about to retire from before Grant's army at Chattanooga.
And to-day bread is selling at 50 cents per loaf-small loaf!
And now the Assistant Secretary of War, Judge Campbell, is allowing men to pass to Maryland, ne pounds of good beef, and a shank — for which he charged nothing, it being part of a present to him from a butcher.
November 14
Some skirmishing between Chattanooga and Knoxville.
From prisoners we learn that the enemy at both those places are on half rations, and that Grant intends to attack Bragg soon at Lookout Mountain
agg's dispatch to-day, dated 29th ult., asking to be relieved, and acknowledging his defeat.
He says he must still fall back, if the enemy presses vigorously.
It is well the enemy did not know it, for at that moment Grant was falling back on Chattanooga!
Mr. Memminger has sent to Congress an impracticable plan of remedying the currency difficulty.
To-day I saw copies of orders given a year ago by Gen. Pemberton to Col. Mariquy and others, to barter cotton with the enemy for certain army in, $60; French brandy, $80 to $125; old Hennessy, $180; Scotch whisky, $90; champagne (extra), $350 per dozen; claret (quarts), $90 to $100; gin, $150 per case; Alsop's ale (quarts), $110; pints, $60.
December 12
There was a rumor that Chattanooga had been evacuated; but it turns out that the enemy are fortifying it, and mean to keep it, while operating in East Tennessee.
It is said Gen. Grant is to bring 30,000 men to Virginia, and assume command of the Army of the Potomac, supersedin
icate himself from the exigency by marching into Middle Tennessee or Kentucky, or both.
Soon after this document came in, another followed from the Tennessee and Kentucky members of Congress, inclosing an elaborate plan from Col. Dibrell, of the Army of Tennessee, of taking Nashville, and getting forage, etc. in certain counties not yet devastated, in Tennessee and Kentucky, Only 10,000 additional men will be requisite.
They are to set out with eight days nations; and if Grant leaves Chattanooga to interfere with the plan, Gen. Johnston is to follow and fall upon his rear, etc. Gen. Longstreet approves the plan — is eager for it, I infer from his dispatch about corn; and the members of Congress are in favor of it. If practicable, it ought to be begun immediately; and I think it will be.
A bright windy day-snow gone.
The Federal General Sherman, with 30,000 men, was, at the last dates, still marching southeast of Jackson, Miss.
It is predicted that he is rushing on his de
rm and cloudy in the afternoon.
The enemy have disappeared.
On the 17th inst., Gen. Lee wrote the Secretary of War that he had received a letter from Gen. Longstreet, asking that Pickett's Division be in readiness to join him; also that a brigade of Gen. Buckner's Division, at Dalton, be sent him at once.
He says the force immediately in front of him consists of the 4th, 11th, 9th, and 23d corps, besides a large body of cavalry from Middle Tennessee. Gen. Lee says the railroad from Chattanooga to Knoxville, being about completed, will enable the enemy to combine on either Johnston or Longstreet.
He (Gen. Lee) says, however, that the 4th and 11th corps are small, and may have been consolidated; the 23d also is small; but he does not know the strength of the enemy.
He thinks Pickett's Division should be sent as desired, and its place filled with troops from South Carolina, etc., where operations will probably soon cease.
The Secretary sent this to the President.
The President
Forrest has been ordered to report to Gen. Hood, in Middle Tennessee.
The railroad iron between Corinth and Memphis will be taken to supply wants elsewhere.
Gen. Dick Taylor is to guard communications, etc., has directed Gen. Cheatham to issue an address to the people of Tennessee, saying his and Gen. Forrest's command have entered the State for its redemption, etc., and calling upon the people to aid in destroying the enemy's communications, while the main army is between Atlanta and Chattanooga, when the purpose is to precipitate the whole army upon it, etc. Gen. B. doubts not he will soon be able to announce good tidings, etc. etc.
This letter to Gen. Cooper is submitted to the Secretary of War, by whom it is submitted for the information of the President, and sent back by him-Read and returned, 4th Nov. ‘64.-J. D.
Gen. B. was to leave that day to join Gen. Hood, in vicinity of Guntersville, on Tennessee River.
Sherman's army was between Dalton and Gadsden, 15 miles from Ga
rgia; but many rumors of much fighting.
It is said Gen. Hampton has got in front of the enemy's column at the Weldon Railroad, and is driving them back.
Gen. Hill, it is presumed, is this side of them.
It is also reported that Gen. Longstreet is now (12 M.) attacking the enemy on this side of the river, and driving them.
Distant guns can be heard southeast of us, and it may be true.
Major Cummings, Confederate States, Georgia, dispatches that the railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga should be repaired immediately, to bring off supplies from Middle Tennessee. Gen. Bragg concurs.
The following was received from Gen. Bragg to-day, 11 A. M.:
Augusta, December 10th, 1864.
The following dispatch is just received from Gen. Wheeler, twenty-seven miles from Savannah, 10 P. M., 8th December.
Enemy are still moving toward Savannah, obstructing the road in the rear, and resisting warmly this morning.
I cannot learn that any have crossed the Savannah River.
I hear
n.
Another anxiety was his knowledge of the fact that an undercurrent of disloyalty still existed among the people on account of their Southern proclivities.
The few days intervening between the receipt of his orders and his proceeding to Chattanooga to assume command of the Fifteenth Army Corps General Logan spent in making speeches for the local candidates of the Republican party and in final appeals to the people to defend the Emancipation Proclama- Proclamation which Mr. Lincoln had ishat I had saved at least one poor creature from being maltreated.
We had taught him to read and write and trained him to be a good and useful citizen, of whom we have often heard good reports.
General Logan was delayed so long in reaching Chattanooga from Vicksburg that he did not arrive there till after the battle, greatly to his disappointment, as he desired to take part in what he felt was to be a brilliant victory.
After assuming command of the Fifteenth Corps, Army of the Tennesse
and associate, Johnston, was in command of the forces in and about Atlanta.
Sherman had the most exalted opinion of Johnston's military abilities and courage; he was, therefore, very careful that every precaution should be observed.
The almost impregnable mountain barriers encircling the well-fortified city of Atlanta added much to the advantage of the enemy.
With an army of less courage and experience, Sherman would have had reason for solicitude.
Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, and Chattanooga were ours.
General Grant and the Army of the East had scored many victories; the enemy were dispirited and rapidly reaching the point of desperation; therefore, the Union troops had reason to expect intrepid resistance to their advance.
This, however, in no wise deterred them, and they were only impatient for active operations, growing quite restive under the delays incident to the mobilization of such an army.
May I, 1864, they started breaking up the headquarters at Huntsville, Al
