Thursday, August 30, 2012

Ubiquitous Bragg


There is a rule of philosophy that prohibits any two bodies from occupying the same place at the same time; but the rebel Generals, as seen in the light of newspaper reports, are constantly over riding it.  We all remember how Beauregard and Ben McCulloch, in the early part of the war, disregarded the common laws of time and space, by being each in half a dozen different parts of the country at almost the identical moment.  Beauregard was in Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Richmond and Alexandria, on the same day, whilst McCulloch was in Cincinnati, Galveston, Mobile and Fort Smith within a week.  Truly the ubiquity of secession officers is astonishing.

The latest case of double-presence is that of Gen. Braxton Bragg.  A day or two ago the country was alarmed for the safety of Burnside’s army by the statement that Bragg had reinforced Norfolk with seven thousand troops from Pensacola, but we find that, at about the same time, that he was counseling with Beauregard at Jackson and declaring martial law in Memphis, whilst he was momentarily being expected in Little Rock.  No doubt Bragg is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better, they say – so the seceshers would do well to keep this flying artillerist in one spot. –{St. Louis Rep.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 3

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