Show I 1 1 quick work every leader caller i of history has been struck with admiration mi ration at the wonderful marches of the gibat gi eat napoleon and the celerity with which ho be moved great nesses Iss 38 of men how in a single night he would set foith and tale take the enemy unaware as much by tile the rapidity of his movements as by the valor and esprit of his troops bat in these days of railroads lail roads steamboats and lightning bonaparte is fairly eclipsed and during the present rebellion feats of army transportation have been accomplished which europe little dreamed of a quarter of a century ago and has not paralleled since the transfer of Beau regards army to virginia while 11 alleck was wag besci ging I 1 it in cornith mississippi is well remembered the transportation of several corps of leos lees allay aimy from the banks of the rappa han hannock nook in virginia to chattanooga in tennessee enabling bragg to overwhelm by superior numbers rosecrans Kosec Rosec ians hitherto victorious army was a feat the accomplishment of which was only rendered possible by a vast system of internal railroads ra i inroads which has so greatly aided the rebels in the concentration of largo large bodies of men at given points along their lines of defence but we have to record rc corda ta feat which for rapidity of execution has we think no parallel in this as of course it has not in any previous war we see it stated on authority that a division of men of the federal army was recently transferred from cul cal popper 11 cobit oui t house m in the heart li ca rt of Vii gima 1111 a to t 0 stephenson alabama a a distance of 1200 miles in four days they went by railroad to alexandria vieginia Vi iginia thence to washington by steamboats thence via the baltimore and ohio railroad to bellisle thence by marches and railroad to columbus columbu ohio and indianapolis indiana thence to louisville kentucky and via nashville tennessee to stephenson alabama in a little over four days aiom this time they struck their tents north of the rapidan Ra in front of lees army they were confronting braggs forces on the tennessee at chickamauga |