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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