THE ARMY AT CHATTANOOGA: Gen. Grant on the Conduct of the War; Close of the East Tennessee Campaign (1/1/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/1/1864

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CHATTANOOGA, Saturday. Dec. 19, 1863.

It is said that Gen. GRANT has forwarded to Washington his views on the way the war should be conducted in future to insure the earliest and most complete suppression of the rebellion. What these views are in detail, is not of course known; but it may be assumed for a certainty, that the concerted movement of all our armies under one policy, and, so far as practicable, under one direction, is the principal feature of Gen. GRANT'S plan.

Assuming that it is true that Gen. Grant has forwarded to Washington his plan, -- and whether he has or not can be ascertained by inquiry at the proper department, -- no one will question his title to do so, or the weight his recommendations should have. Standing before the country the first General in the field, with results proving his great abilities, almost marvelous, it is not to be supposed for an instant that his views will fail to excite the greatest interest. To suppose that they will not enter largely into the future conduct of the war is to imply a disposition to deny him the influence his great services entitle him to have, and a suspicion that the powers at Washington are inimical to the General, whom the country recognizes as not only having done most, but as best qualified to give counsel. Of course nobody thinks this. Therefore it may confidently be expected that the future movements of our armies and the policy that will prevail in the campaigns to follow will be much in accordance with the suggestions of Gen. GRANT.

No one, within the limits of our country, is so far removed, or so dull in observation, as not to perceive the necessity of a greater

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The Army at Chattanooga: Gen. Grant on the Conduct of the War – 2
The Exchange of Prisoners: Another Letter from Gen. Hitchcock – 2-3
News from Washington: Special Dispatches to the N.Y. Times – 3
Editorial: The Armies and Finances of the South – The Sources of Military Power – 3-4
Editorial: Troublesome Questions Between England and the United States – 4
New Year’s Resolutions – 4
Our Army in East Tennessee – 4-5
A Desperate Rebel Chief – 5
Metropolitan Fair: United States Sanitary Commission – 5
Amusements this Evening – 5

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America’s Greatest Blunder, by Burton Yale Pines.

How the unnecessary War Between The States was the preface to the insane U.S. entry into World War One.

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"...There was a time when the Jews almost "ran" the Army of the Cumberland, as they have to some extent almost every other. But it is hard to discriminate between Jews and the Gentiles in such matters. Sometimes I have thought that, expert as the Jews ever and everywhere are, the Gentiles frequently got ahead of them -- a fact that suggests a state of things where, one would suppose, the Government and honest men stood a very small chance."

Interesting times.