Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . esumptuous mercenaries collected for our subjuga-tion ? One more manly effort, and, trusting in God and thejustness of our cause, we shall recover more than we latelylost. Let the sound of our victorious guns be re-echoedby those of Virginia on the historic battle-field at York-town. It should be explained, concerning the first words ofthis address, that among the reinforcements of Beaure-gards army were Van Dorns troops, who had fought atPea Ridge, Arkansas, a battle which the Rebels calledElkhorn; and concerning the closing words, that on thevery day when thi
Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . esumptuous mercenaries collected for our subjuga-tion ? One more manly effort, and, trusting in God and thejustness of our cause, we shall recover more than we latelylost. Let the sound of our victorious guns be re-echoedby those of Virginia on the historic battle-field at York-town. It should be explained, concerning the first words ofthis address, that among the reinforcements of Beaure-gards army were Van Dorns troops, who had fought atPea Ridge, Arkansas, a battle which the Rebels calledElkhorn; and concerning the closing words, that on thevery day when this address was issued, the Rebels fledfrom Yorktown before the advance of McClellan ! GeneralBragg also made an address to his soldiers, saying : M Youwill encounter the enemy in your chosen position, strongby nature and improved by art, away from his main supportand reliance—gunboats and heavy batteries—and for thefirst time in this war, with nearly equal numbers. Thisremark about equal numbers was certainly untrue, since at. GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN. MARCHING AT A SNAILS PACE. 201 Shiloh the Rebel army on the first day actually outnum-bered the Union troops. And now at Corinth it is hardlypossible to believe that the Rebels had anything like a hun-dred thousand men. Forty-seven thousand is the estimategiven by one careful writer, and sixty-five thousand byanother. There really seems to be no good reason forbelieving that Beauregard had at most more than two-thirds as many soldiers as Halleck, and there was no pros-pect of his getting any more, for McClellans huge armywas menacing Richmond, and all available Southern troopswere needed there to cope with it. Of course, Hallecksmen were still comparatively new to war, and it would havebeen injudicious to hurry them forward against Beaure-gards entrenched position. But under another leader theydoubtless might have been conducted with certain successagainst the foe in half the time that Halleck took, andwith far more satisfactory res
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