The late Gen, Rosecrans.
--The New York Herald, has an editorial article upon General Rosecrans's removal, in which the following appears:‘ General Rosecrans in 1861 laid before the Government a plan by which he could operate from Western Virginia upon the rebel position at Manassas and flank it. Though practicable, it was not acted upon. In the next year he projected a plan for the capture of Lynchburg, which would have give us possession of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad. Gen. McClellan and the Secretary of War both approved of this plan; but "the clamor of politicians and the necessities of military rank compelled the Administration to create the Mountain Department for the benefit of other Generals;" and thus, "to please a political faction, a practical plan of operations which would have proved of immense advantage to the Federal arms was thrown aside, and the season frittered away in a campaign barren of results." Had General Rosecrans's second plan been acted upon Stone wall Jackson's advance down the Shenandoah Valley would never have taken place; McDowell would have formed a junction with Gen. McClellan, then in front of Richmond; Richmond must have fallen, and Gen. Lee, instead of crushing Pope and advancing into Maryland, would have surrendered with Richmond or have been compelled to retreat through North Carolina, while the State would probably have risen against him at every step of the way. Now, to have presented these plans to the War Department, would, inasmuch as they were not acted upon, be a great crime in any man; but to present these plans and tell of it also is a crime too great to be horde, and it should be expected that any General guilty of it must die, if two or three Secretaries of War and a military adviser could between them shuffle off his mortal coil. Gen. Rosecrans appears to have been guilty of the greater crime.
’ In the recently published "Annals of the Army of the Cumberland" there is a biography of Gen. Rosecrans, in which these facts appear. If we may judge from appearances the facts were furnished by General Rosecrans, and the severe reflection on the War Department which they imply, and which were thus assumed to emanate from that General, were more than the War Department could bear. Gen. Rosecrans was removed immediately upon the publication of the book.
