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The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Notes of the War. (search)
ssippi. But perhaps the most auspicious feature of the Western programm is revealed in the contemplated movement of Gen. Van-Dorn from Northwestern Arkansas to co-operate on the west bank of the Mississippi with our Generals on the east side of the river. If the enemy, as now seems probable, intends to attempt an advance down the Mississippi, the appearance of Gen. Van-Dorn on his flank, and threatening his rear, near New Madrid or Cairo, would unquestionably disconcert the plan, and compel him to enter upon a new campaign in Missouri as a preparation for invasion. Even if this movement of Gen. Van-Dorn should accomplish nothing but t gain time for maturing our river defences by arresting the progress of the enemy, its wisdom would bembraced in a general plan of operations in the West. We have no doubt that it has all along been entertained, and that Gen. Van-Dorn's purpose in so speedily attacking Curtis was t cripple him as much as possible, and, leaving him in te wilds of No