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11 706 HAEPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 8, 1862. MAJOK-GENEU.YL UOSECRANS. \\ K devote the preceding page to a portrait of MA.III-GI-:NEIIAL \VII.I.IAM STAKKK ROSKCRAKS, the new commander of the Army of the Ohio, and the hero of the li.ittlo of Corinth. General Rosecrans was born in Delaware County, Ohio, on Oth November, 1819. His family were nf Dutch descent, though of the Roman Catholic f.utli. In the year 1837 lie was appointed a cadet at West Point, and graduated among the five first In 1811. Entering the corps of engineers, he was successively employed in works of construction at Fortress Mem roe; Newport, Rhode Island; New liutlford, Massachusetts, etc., and served four years as Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Acad emy at West Point. In 1863 he left the army, and opened an office ns civil engineer at Cincinnati. In Ib55 he accepted the Presidency of the Cannel Coal Company of Coal Uiver, Kanawha Court House, Virginia; but a couple of j ears afterward resigned the position to commence, at Cincinnati, the manu- factnre of coal oil. At tliu outbreak of the rebellion General Rose crans was one of the first men whom General MTlellan called to his aid. lie accepted Uie post of aid to M'CIellan when the latter entered West- mi Virginia, and was soon afterward appointed Ilrigadi-r-Ueneral. In the short bat brilliant campjl^n which cleared the rebels out of Western Virginia Rusecrans took a leading part, and when General M'CIellan -was called to Washington to replace M'Uuwell ho WHS left in command. He prosecuted the campaign with moderate success, failing, however, in his great object, which was to bug the " thief Floyd," through some mischance of General Benhain's. For some time Subsequently to this but little was heard of General Rosecraus. lie turned up again at Corinth, and was in com mand there when the place was attacked by the rebels under Van t)orn on 8d and 4th October. Ills victory has been thoroughly acknowledged by the rebels. Whin the escape of Bragg rendered it Incum bent on the President to replace General Buell by some more fortunate if not more energetic jcom- nmnder, General Rosecrans was at once selected for the command. The public have every hope th.it he will vindicate the wisdom of the choice. We published a sketch of General Rosecrans a. little more than a year ago. The writer remarked that among the papers which be examined in search of materials for his biography, he discovered a tes timonial to " Mr. Rosecrans's high abilities, Integ rity, and energy," signed by Jefferson Davls, and dated 18W. HAllPER'S WEEKLY. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1862. THE FIFTH ACT OF THE DRAMA. T UIE events of this war repeat themselves with uniform regularity. We began the war with a pretty general contempt for our ad versary, and a complacent self-assurance of early and easy triumph. That delusion was dispelled on 21st July on the field of Bull Run, and there the curtain fell on the first Act of ourgrentDraina. From that ill-omened day till the close of the year 18G1 the hand of fate was against us. \Ve lost battles, and we lost territory, nnd we lost hope. Our armies lay idle, secmyigly through want of energy on the part of their leaders. People began to despond, nnd the great North, which had been welded into an integral whole by the attack on Fort Sumter, began to exhibit symp toms of division into parties. The rebels could boost of holding more territory than they had ever expected to inclose within their Confed eracy. They had blockaded the Potomne, be leaguered Washington, menaced Cairo and Lou isville. ' Our blockade of their ports had been ron by oVcr throe hundred vessels. The pres tige of victory was with them; and the official organ of Jeff Davis's Government assured its readers that the independence of the South had been actually achieved, and that henceforth the contest was merely for boundaries. This was the condition of affairs nt New Year 1862; and here we may say the second Act of the Drama ended. The third Act began with the fulfillment of M'Clellan's famous promise that "when the storm does begin, it will lighten along the whole line." It began on the battle-field of Somerset in Kentucky, where, on 19th January, the first real victory won by the North was achieved. The news had scarcely been received in New York before the telegraph Bashed the welcome intelligence of the bombardment and capture of Fort Henry, on February Cth; and from that day to the end of Juno the record was one of uninterrupted Northern success. On February 8, two days after the fall of Fort Henry, Burnsido wrested the island of Itoanoke from the rebels, and thus achieved the conquest of Albe- marle and Pamlico Sounds, and of the whole sea-board of North Carolina. On 16th, Gener al Grant " moved npon the enemy's works" at Fort Donelson and captured that strong-hold with many thousands of prisoners. The fall of Forts Henry and Donelson compelled the rebels to evac uate their two strong-holds in the West, Colum bus and Bowling Green. On 1st March the form er was abandoned, and on 12th General Mitchell commenced his glorious career by entering the latter. Meanwhile, on 8th March, Cartis nnd Sigcl had enrolled their names in the book of fame, by defeating the enemy under ll'In- tosh, Price, and Van Corn at Pen Ridge, in Ar kansas. On llth, the Army of the Potomac moved: Banks occupied Winchester, and M'CIel lan obliged the rebels to cvacnatc Mnnnssas with- ont firing n gun. The two last weeks of March witnessed the capture of Ncwbcrn and Beaufort, North Carolina, by Burnside; of Florence, Ala bama, and luka, Mississippi, by Mitchell; and of the whole const of Florida, by Commodore Dupont. April began as brilliantly. On 7th, Island No. 10 surrendered to General Pope; ou 8th, Commodore Farragut and General Bntler took New Orleans—the most brilliant exploit of the war. On the same day, General M'CIellan commenced his parallels against Yorktown. On the lame day the terrible battle of Shiloli, or Pittsburg Landing, by far the most bloody of Lfhc war, terminated in the victory of the North ern forces, and destroyed the hope of Bcnurc- Rard's army. On llth, General Mitchell took Huntsville, Alabama—thus securing about 100 miles of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad; and on the same day Fort Palaski, Georgia, surrendered to General Gilmorc. . The next event of importance was the evacua tion of Yorktown, on May 4th; and the battle of Williamsburg, in which a portioji of M'Clel lan's army wou a victory on 5th. Then fol lowed in qnick succession the battles of Hanover Court House, West Point, and Fair Oaks—all victories for the North; and on the 80th May the evacuation of Corinth. This, together with the naval victory of Commodore Foote, on 6th June, compelled the snrrendcrof Memphis on 7th. Ou 18th Jnne, General Morgan occupied Cum berland Gap. This event appears to us to have closed the third Act of the Drama. For five months onr successes had been nnintcrruptcd and substantial. Once more we were relapsing into our old blind self-confidence, and falling into the errors which this feeling naturally engen ders. Enlistments were stopped and no means of recruiting our decimated regiments even pro posed. Politicians were .agaiu beginning to dis count the future, which they deemed so certain, and to quarrel over the distribution of the hon ors which seemed so secnrcly won. There was a general relaxation of the energy which had enabled ns to win victories. Add to this that the season precluded the operations of our gun boats on the rivers o. the interior, and a part of the succeeding events will seem less unintelligi ble than they would otherwise appear. The fourth Act of the Drama commenced with the operations of Stonewall Jackson in the Shcnandoah Valley, which, though depressing to the Northern mind, were indecisive. The bat tles of the seven days before Richmond, ending July 1, were far more important. However high ly wo may praise the skill of M'CIellan and the bravery of his troops, it can no.t be denied that the substantial fruits of victory on this occasion were with the rebels. Our army was driven in a shattered condition to the banks of the James River, and the siege of Richmond was raised. The success raised the hopes of the rebels once more. Their conscript Act was enforced with rigor, and their armies throughout the Confed eracy strengthened. An aggressive policy was adopted. Bragg moved northward from Chat tanooga, Lee from Richmond, Hindmnn from Little Rock, Arkansas, while Brcckinridge and Van Dorn undertook successfully to prevent the reopening of the Mississippi. We foiled to toko Vicksburg, and were forced to evacuate Baton Rouge. Pope, with a handful of men, strove bravely, but of conrse ineffectually, to resist the overwhelming advance of Lee upon Washington: the last week of August was almostas disastrous to us. as the last week of June. Bucll, choosing rather to circumvent Bragg than to fight him, operated so as to protect Nashville and Louis ville, nnd succeeded; bnt he could not prevent the fall of Murfreesboro', the abandonment of Cumberland Gap, the capture of Frankfort and Lexington, and the occupation by the rebels of the whole Blue Grass Region of Kentucky. In the far West Hindman actually threw ont skirm ishers into Missouri. This Act naturally term inates with the passage of the Potomac by Lee's forces in the first week of September, and the halt of Bragg's and Kirby Smith's armies before Louisville and Cincinnati. At this moment the rebels had driven us out of Virginia and follow ed ns into Maryland; had rcoccupicd the best part of Kentucky, and left ns only two small corners of Tennessee; had rendered the naviga tion of the Mississippi as dangerous as it ever was. They were flushed with victory, we were dispirited by defeat. Their papers reported, to use their own words, " a snccession of triumphs so monotonous as to pall npon the taste." Our people had begun once more to lose faith in themselves, in their cause, and especially in then leaders, and traitors were again rearing their heads at the North. . The fifth, and, we hope, the last Act of the Drama, commenced on September 14, when Gen eral M'CIellan defeated the rebels at South Mountain nndcr Lee. On 17th he fought them again at Antietam, and drove them ont of Mary land. On the same day Kirby Smith's army began to fall back from Florence, Kentucky, abandoning the enterprise against Cincinnati in despair. On 25th, Quell arrived at Louisville, and Bragg began to fall bock. On 4th October General Rosecrans utterly defeated the rebels at Corinth, as acknowledged at Richmond, par alyzing the armies of Van Dorn and Brcckin ridge. On the same day we took Galveston, Texas. On 8th, the battle of Pcrryvillc was fought, which, though perhaps not a Union vic tory, still compelled Bragg to fly rapidly toward the Cumberland mountains, losing the whole fruit of his expedition. On 22d, the rebel army in Arkansas was defeated and scattered at a second battle of Pea Ridge. On 23d, General Mitchell attacked the Savannah and Charleston Railroad. On 2Cth, the Army of the Potomac crossed into Virginia to renew the campaign. On the same day the Army of the Ohio, under instructions from its new commander, General Rosccrans, marched southward toward Tennessee. Events indicate that the tide of fortune has turned once more, and that when the curtain falls on this fifth Act the laws of art will be fulfilled by the denouement of the drama. This hope is en- conragcd by the fact that our armies arc far stronger than they ever were, and are daily re ceiving fresh accessions of strength; that they are perfectly armed and equipped, and that their officers have nt length learned how to handle them; and that in the conrse of a few days we shall hnve a fleet of Monitors afloat for the reduction of Charleston, Savannah, and Mobile. It is further confirmed by the fact that though, during what we have termed the second and fourth Acts of the Drama, success was with the rebels, we lost no important strategic points which we had previously won. Though they seemed to win every battle, nnd we seemed to hear of nothing but reverses, we continued to hold Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, Corinth, Norfolk, Beaufort, Fort Pulaski, Pcnsacoln, San Angustino, and to control the Mississippi River,' with the exception of a few miles above and be low Vicksburg. The difference batwcen them and ns appears to be that their triumphs are barren of practical results, while ours have al most invariably secured for us substantial'ad vantages in point of territory, strategic points, or influential towns. We have been so often disappointed that it seems rash to risk any more predictions. But if we gain as much in this fifth Act as we did in the third, there will be very little left of the Coufederacy by next spring. A JOKER UPON THE WAR MR. JOHN VAN BURF.N is an unseasonable jester. The airy way in which he cries " Ho, for Fort La fayette 1" shows simply bis consciousness of what he deserves, and his equal consciousness that the Government which be accuses of suppressing free spsech does not mind his slanders enough to sup press them. Mr. Van Buren's political opinions have ceased to be important, except as indicating the views and. policy of others. There was a time when be was the most popular orator of the princi ples against which the insurrection is directed. Thete was a time when be woe the leader of the party of the future. Tlmt future has arrived. That party, with all men of all parties who are true to the fundamental principle of the Government, is vigorously fighting for the existence of the nation, and its old champion stands by with folded arms, leering aud laughing, jesting cheerfully, amidst peals of applause which Jeff Davis bears and smiles, over that excellent but tedious joke, the bloody de struction of the Government of the United States and the ruin of all hope of popular civil liberty hereafter. Mr. Seymour himself Is too sagacious to unroll his programme. Bnt his friend, the jester, is !ess wise. The whole story of the desperate effort of the rump of the old Democratic part}1 to get upon its legs is told in a few sentences by Mr. Van Bnren. "Let us take Richmond," he says in substance. " Then ask our erring brethren what they want; if we can't agree, let ns say,' Wayward sisters, depart in peace 1'" "Here's richness!" cried Mr. Squeers, as be sipped the sky-blue skim-milk. Here's states manship! may we net all cry as we contemplate this patent Sherman's lozenge warranted to cute rebellion in one dose ? But why take Richmond ? If Mr. Van Buren bad reall' enlisted for the war, we could understand that he burned for the fray, and could not bold until he had fieshed bis doughty blade. But as he did not go, and the only war he wages Is against the army .and the Government, why should he send thousands and thousands of citizens, quite as valuable to the country as he, to be slaughtered, maimed, and mangled before Rich mond, when by his own statement it is all to be in vain? If the Government is to surrender to the rebellion, why not surrender before another life is lost? If Mr. Van Buren and the friends for whom be speaks are so anxious to let "our Southern brethren" do exactly what they choose when they constitutionally administer the Government, and when they constitutionally lose control of it, then smother it and the country, and all the rights of every man in blood, why wait until we take Rich mond? What connection is there between all this and Richmond ? The jester gets a little ghastly here. For if he is willing to let them have all they wish when Richmond is taken, be simply gives Ills consent to the murder of all bis fellow- citizens who may be slain in taking it. He may have sons or brothers in the war for all we know; but if be has not there is scarce a true-hearted fam ily in the land but has eont its brave and cherished there, and they may be pardoned if they prefer that, if the wayward sister's are to deport in peace, they may be allowed to start now, satisfied with the misery they have already caused. Here are our streets and the whole country filled with wounded nnd maimed soldiers, heroic monu ments of the national valor. Thousands sleep in the foul soil of Virginia, slain in bat lie or deml of sharp torture and lingering disease. But the lively jester skips in and capers upon their graves, and shaking his bells, cries "Pooh, pooh! if a man's wife wants to leave him, she can make him miglitv uncomfortable, nnd he bad better let her go. Lu her go ? yes, nnd pack her trunk too." This is the gay view of our tremendous sirup;! for the perpetuity of civil order to whii-b Mr. V. Buren invites the fathers and brothers and friend of our soldiers in the field, when he asks iheiii .o vote for Horatio Seymour. To lie sure a few tl on- sands more, including your Son,' may lie killrd, but as soon as they are safely dead we'll make it all up! If that is what you wunt, don't fail to vote for Seymour. If you think that at such nn hour as this the people of the State of New Yo> k should express a preference for a party whose chief orator makes the war a joke, by all means vote for Sey mour. But if you earnestly mean crushing the Kbellion by war, then vote for Wadswortb, who means it just as earnestly as you. "OUR OWN." THE New York correspondent of the London Times is handled without gloves in'a rec/ nt num ber of the London Daily News. The person who writes these letters had declared, after the retreat of Pope: "Brag, bold, brazen, unblushing, un conquerable Brag is lord of the ascendant, and strives to keep up the spirits of the people.... But all this is, in one word, 'Bosh.'... It is not per mitted to the newspapers of New York to promul gate the fact, but it is known in almost every cir cle, and all but the willfully blind can see, that neverijkice the disruption of the Union were I he fortum» of the North at a lower ebb than at this moment." The Daily Ifews quotes from New York papers of about the same date as this letter, showing a perfect appreciation of the position of affairs, vilh no effort to disguise it, and then asks: " What do our readers think of a gentleman who is capable of sending home, to be read by tens of thousands of his countrymen, reports which stand in such rel-i- tions to the facts as we see here? What but th t they ere sent home for a purpose very different from that of enlightening the mind of England ? And it is of such material that public opinion is made. " It is supposed to be for the advantage of the public that the accredited correspondent of a nev s- paper should be unnamed. The New York news papers, however, lately contained a letter in which Dr. Charles Mackay, late of London, announced himself as the correspondent of our contemporary in that capital. Some of our readers who remem ber Dr. Mackay as the poet of ' The Good Time Coming' may be surprised to find him working in the interest of the slave-owner, especially as, in his own touching words, 'The great cause of Hu man Progress has required, at every period of the world, the support of earnest and thinking men.' Could it have been the rise of the Slave Power he was thinking of when, sixteen years ago, he Bang, joyously, There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam. There's a warmth about to glow. There's a flower about to blow. " No, for the word was then, Onward while a wrong remains To be conquered by the right; While an error clouds the reason, Or a jorrow gnaws the heart, Or a elare awaits hia freedom, Action is the wlae man's part. " Then, too. it would have se' ned—so we gather from the record—an nnworthy • ccupation to row the seeds of hatred and strife between the nations, and past errors of that kind were things to be repent ed of. Once we thought It right to foster Local jealousy and pride; Right to hate another nation Farted from us by a tide: Old opinions 1 rnga and tattsrnl Get you gonel get you gone I "Dr. Mackay has told us that in writing puch poetry its this be was much encouraged by sym pathy and approval from the other side of the*At- lantic.* But sixteen years bring reflection an-1 experience. These verses were tlie inspirations of sentiment. Since he wrote them, Dr Mackay has been to the land of slavery, and having stood face to face with the hideous monster—having seen at New Orleans men with faces as white as his own bought and sold as slaves—he lias become convert ed to the cause of the South." EIGHTS AKD GUARANTEES. " If it is true," says Horatio Seymour, " that slavery must be abolished to save this Union, then the people of the South should be allowed to with draw themselves from that Government which c,.n not give them the protection guaranteed by its terms." But if the protection of slavery is guaranteed by the terms of the Constitution, it is so in one case only and that expressly mentioned, the return of fugitives held to service under the laws of one State escaping into another. Certainly neither Mr. Seymour nor any other American advocate of human slavery will contend that the protection of a right claimed by any man to a slave is more, ex pressly guaranteed than the protection of the right of the same man to bis life. If, then, his rebclUor. forfeits the constitutional protection of the one • iglit, when it conflicts with the supremacy of th • O \- ernment, it clearly forfeits the other in the ^.in case, unless bis right to bis slave be more sacruit than that to his life. The utter absurdity of Mr. Seymour's sophism, therefore, becomes at once evident, upon substitu- H«aven forgive usl— Lounger. NOVEMBER 8, 1862.] HAKPEKS WEEKLY. 707 ting the one right for the other. His propositioi would then read thus: " If it is true that life musl be taken to save this Union, then the people of th South should be allowed to withdraw themselve; from that Government which can not give them the protection guaranteed by its terms." BRETHREN. THE meetings and speeches of the gentlemen whom Mr. Daniel S. Dickiuson, a tolerable demo cratic authority, declares to have been the mcncli. cants, office-seekers, and camp-followers of the oil Democratic party—crippled Democrats, who havi been carried for life in the ambulances of the party and attached to its commissariat—have been the source of so much satisfaction to the rebels that no honest man can doubt that every vote for Mr. Seymour, the candidate of those meetings, will be hailed with true delight by the same "erring breth ren." Mr. John Van Buren, as we have elsewhere said, lias been the speaker of chief importance, because he has spoken explicitly. Mr. Seymour has con fined himself to generalities, some safe, some not so safe, as he will find. Upon receipt of the speech es the re'iel pnpers burst into a chorus of joy. The letter of General Scott, which was read by Mr. Van Buren, and was aimed in the orator's intention against the fair patriotic fame of Scott, against the Government and the war, in the opinion of the Richmond Dispatch, "exalts General Scott from the abyss into which he has been dragged by Sew- ard." Mr. Van Buren meant to give the rebels the aid nnd comfort of knowing that Scott, at the time of the inauguration, wanted to let them go. He has succeeded. He has delighted the enemies of his country. They break into vehement
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Page 23 and 24: HAKPEK'S WEEKLY. AT SOUTH MOUNTAIN.
Page 25 and 26: CO ? "Vl^/v W ^f^MAXW* Mooafriaf **
Page 29 and 30: 686 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [OCTOBER 25,18
Page 31 and 32: 090 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 1,18
Page 33 and 34: [NOVEMBEB 1, 1862. NOVEMBER 1, 1862
Page 35 and 36: 698 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 1, 1
Page 37: 702 HARPER'S WEEKLY, [NOVEMBER 1, 1
Page 41 and 42: 710 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBEB 8, 1
Page 43 and 44: 714 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 8, 1
Page 45 and 46: 71R HARPEK'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 8, 1
Page 47 and 48: 722 HAEPEE'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 15,
Page 49 and 50: 726 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 15,
Page 57 and 58: 742 THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC-GENERAL
Page 59 and 60: (46 HAKPEKS WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER 22, 1
Page 62 and 63: •'Now, Boys, rub out! ADVERTISKME
Page 66 and 67: 760 HARPER'S WEEKLY 7G1 GENERAL M'C
Page 68 and 69: 764 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBEH 29,
Page 70 and 71: 1(11 7G8 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [NOVEMBER
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Page 74 and 75: 776 HARPER'S WEEKLY. 777 .— [S ee
Page 76 and 77: HAHPER-S WEEKLY. MAP OF RICHMOND, V
Page 78 and 79: •H HARPER'S WEEKLY. OLD MB. SECES
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Page 84 and 85: 796 HABPEB'S WEEKLY. [DECEMBER 13,1
Page 86 and 87: POO JOHN BULL. JOHN. "All right, ME
Page 88 and 89:
t) 00 \ \ DAVIS MILLS, ON THE MISSI
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808 HAMPER'S WEEKLY. 809 FREDERICKS
Page 92 and 93:
812 HAKPER'S WEEKLY. [DECEMBER 20,
Page 94 and 95:
81G HARPER'S WEEKLY. [DECEMUEK 20,
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820 . HARPER'S WEEKLY. [DECEMBER 27
Page 98 and 99:
824 WEEKLY. 826 A BATTLE AS SEEN BY
Page 100 and 101:
828 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [t)ECEMBER 27,
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HHI I I!. 882 HAEPER'S WEEKLY. [DEC
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