TULLAHOMA, July 7,
1863.
Hon. E. M. STANTON:
Just received your cheering dispatch announcing the fall of
Vicksburg and confirming the defeat of Lee. You do not appear to observe the
fact that this noble army has driven the rebels from Middle Tennessee, of which
my dispatches advised you. I beg in behalf of this army that the War Department
may not overlook so great an event because it is not written in letters of
blood. I have now to repeat, that the rebel army has been forced from its
strong intrenched positions at Shelbyville and Tullahoma, and driven over the
Cumberland Mountains. My infantry advance is within 16 miles and my cavalry
advance within 8 miles of the Alabama line. No organized rebel force within 25
miles of there, nor on this side of the Cumberland Mountains.
W. S. ROSECRANS.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume
23, Part 2 (Serial No. 35), p. 518
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