| Show attack and defense difficulties of the campaign there is no doubt a very great disparity between the forces of the union and those of the rebels we have perhaps one bundled men inen to their fl forty ort y and we have bave not then a man too many if tile contest wet acie e reversed rever bcd the not tit being on oil the defense and tile the south the invading power to guarantee success against us its they would be obliged to muster moil men to our 40 this superiority of numbers is always to ic by an invading aimy and no courage arms and discipline being e equal can compensate for a lack of numbers num beis napoleon had the best troops of his times but when lie he invaded germany it was with an army vastly greater than that of tile the aus arians and prussians and though 1 his whole foice was neally neaily he be found himself unable either cither at ulm austerlitz Aust eilitz jena or friedland to muster a hundred thousand in battle tile the test guarding his line of communication ni cation with fiance covering liis his flank or watching ta over his necessary depots of army supplies in the war now waging 5 in Derit the invaders inva deis dois number whilst the whole movable force oi of the danish king hing is but the germans are to alie danes as 1 13 is to 4 and yet their lines aie short while horn the narrowness of tile peninsula their flanks cannot be seriously tile the first problem leili to be solved by an invader is that of far his army the next dextie ie in case of disaster and finally a clear field for retreat if lie should be beaten if the enemy to be assailed is feeble in war but rich in necessary essaiy bubbis tenca the advance can be made without care for rear lines as tile invader may then subsist his army on oil the people but if either one of cheso conditions is against him lie he must glaid his line of advance if both aie against liim him lie roust not only glaid his line of advance with great but also carry liis his subsistence si with hirn him those these the stein conditions under which N napoleon apoleon invaded russia and when the immense depots of subsistence which had been collected by the russians at moscow destroyed desti oyed by y fire his loll 1011 long lines of communications being cut aai and d the surrounding rounding sm sui country st tipped of everything that could feed art an aimy they made that necessary essai essaiy Y which tile cossacks and cold and stai signalized signalizes by loute and digest disaster lie he entered russia with moil men complete in all arms the most splendid army the alie world ever behold beheld tile the russians did not have a movable force exceeding to oppose him yet for causes above stated they ultimately boat beat him and destroyed desti dest oyed Loyed his army in all respects but the rigor of climate our armies invading the south are similarly situated brave and disciplined armies aie before them as these fall back they destroy the limited subsistence the country affords aff and thus compel our to guard their lines as they advance and to carry subsistence with them this is precisely the difficulty of capturing richmond biorn the line of advance which general grant is is pursuing and it is for these reasons that lie he must be ic enforced as his lines lengthen he must have at least two moil men to lees one lie shall have reached a 1 wi within 1 abin lal miles of richmond or his line of supply will shiely be severed because the countey and around him is a desert and his subsistence must all como come bioni behind in ili Sher shermans mans cafe case tile the odds are still greater chattanooga n is his base there lie has collected depots foi a laige 0 aimy it is neatly neaily miles front from atlanta this long oil line is and threatened by the cavalie of chal mors wheeler and foriest with an ail infantry foice under bishop polk who is along the coosa river toady ivady to strike at any exposed pait of shermans Sher nans mans rear by tit the time general sherman Sli erman reaches atlanta it will to le quite a langei force to protect his lines than to whip johnston it is in this view view that the rapid retreat of the latter becomes the least encouraging 9 circumstance connected with the booi gooi gia campaign if sherman can manage to delude the rebel leader into a decisive battle lie may then manage n to subsist his aimy deiy well upon tile the enemy as geoegia is a licit country and so far but little devastated by the war but should johnston linston Jo reheat to macon or augusta without risking a battle burning and wasting the subsistence si stence of the countey as lie he falls back it may go hard with the union army 1 especially if lee and beanie gaid aid should slip away fi aiom om gi giant ant into tile the cotton states keeping 0 these suggestions in mind the leader will dundei stand wily it is that with a geteian aimy of at least inon it has been found expedient to call out tit alie better pai pait t of a hundred thousand state militia to man works and fai boits ts in tile the south and watch copperhead Copper licad scoundrels in the north the conditions of tile invasive war are arc such and buch their advantage 0 of f position and hailway means ot of concentration tra tion that ichel sol soldiers sold icis diets aie nearly equal to of ouis though in a clear field and an ail open fight like that at gettysburg or chickamauga ai we no have always beaten them man arum to man whenever nevet they have attempted invasion and we have stood upon tile defensive they have been beaten and repelled in a few days or weeks if we can call this tin s summer manage to bein in and capture but one of their two gloat ain armies lies as is reason to believe we shall their day is done and the other must soon follow the same fortune foi tune stocton lon independent |
