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Washington, January 24, 1863.. I had occasion last week to viit the Army of thi Potomac; and as I found it on the eve of a movement against the rebel forces in its front, I remained to watch its progress and result?. You will have received from our regular correspon dents full reports of both before this can reach you. Concerning the causes of the failure of this movement, they may not have said as much as the good of the ser vice and the welfare of the country re quire. I write this letter mainly to sup ply that defect. The sudden change in the weather on the night of Tuesday, the loth, was the immediate cause of the failure. The movement was intended to be a surprise. The whole army was put in motion during the day on Tuesday, and each portion of. it was to have been by midnight, in the position designated by the commanding general, for the commencement of ooera- tions at G o'clock below, aud 7 J o'clock above I'rcdericksburg, on Weduesday morning. At 8 o'clock on Tuesday even ing it began to rain,' and throughout the night the rain coutiuued, with a tempest of wind. Owing to other causes, of which I shall speak hereafter, those portions of the army designated to lead the mover-ici.'t had not moved with the vigor aid energy which the nature of the service required. They were arrested, thcrcfure, some miles short of their appointed positions by the condition of the roads,- nuddeniy softened by the heavy rain, and through which, by morn ins:, it had become impossible to move either pontoons or artillery with the celerity demanded. The enemy meantime discovered the movement, and instantly rallied to meet it. The moment for the urprise had passed, and theiefore the movement was abandoned. - This is the surface view of the matter. As things stood, the weather afforded suf ficient excuse for abandoning the enterprise indeed, made it ueccssarT to uo so. Jut if everything else had been right, this ob stacle would have been overcome, or rather, would not have arisen iu time to offer an' difficulty. ut the Army of the Potomac is like the soil of irginiaj the upper crust is hard, but thin ; a little rain soaks it, and underiu'ath lies a treacherous juicksand. Break through the crust, and 30U siuk instantly to a doptSi which mak3s movement impossible. A good deal has been said of the demoralization of the army. The word is too strnug. It does not apply to the mass of the army at all. But it does apply to a good many of the officers. They are demoralized, iu every sense of the word, and they are a source of discouragement of discontent of dis- , hearteruuent (if there is ueh a word) to ; their subordinates aud to the ranks. I do I not hesitate to sav that tho failure of this ' latest movement was due, primarily and mainly to the insujwtlimitton the word is not too strung of some of the generals in com maud under Burnside. I ask nu better evidence of this than the language openly held by them, in presence of their subordinate-s, of newspaper reporters, and of all who chose to li.-den, before the movement, while it ws in progress, and after it had been abandoned. Unless common report, which receives the coun tenance, if not the distinct continuation, of the officers most concerned, is entirely at lault, tlie commanding general was over whelmed with protests from his sub ordinates against his movements, ajhr they had been decided upon, and with exaggerated and untrue reports of the ob stacles in his way. So far as I know, no one of them went so far as to refuse obedi ence to his oreiers ; but everything short ..e ...!.:. !. r; 11 1 . i 1 oj mat iv nan uuiweis cuinuiuj 10 emuan ass and thwart his plans was done, and done, too, as 011 some previous occasions, with effect and success. As every one knows, there is a kind of obedience worse in it? results than a fiat relu-u!, for it leaves the commanuicir officer without a remedy. Whiie it answers iu form all the require ments of the service, -it insures, by its halting, half-hearted, and po.-sib'y premed itated inefficiency, tho f.jilure of the plan which it pretends to second. One general, for example, was expected to have pontoons enough for four bridges j 44 iu all, 1 jeiieve at the appointed spot by daylight on Wednesday uumiin lie had but. eight or nine miles to go, mere was no rcas,ni way we hnouia not. have had them there before. the rain. He j .s pi nt a good deal of his time on Tuesday -j iu demonstrating that the chances of fail- - T - ... . 1 1 i . ! ure were lit out of 0 ; on W edu esday t morning he had fifteen pontoons placed in . fxn view of the enemy, and the rest were j stuck in the mud from two to five miles back. He certainly had done not hint: to ' disturb bis own calculation of cha.iic.es, aud ' now cau refer to it as proof of his own sa gacity. Another general was unreserved in the expression of his opinion against the movement, and did everything in his power, even after the march of his troops had begun, to have it arrested.. It may seem a severe judgment, but I Cannot help believing, from what I saw and heard, that each of the generals allu- ded to, and several of their subordinates, who naturally take their cue from them, rejoiced in the failure of the movement. They had committed themselves openly and publicly to the opinion that it would fail; perhaps it would be unreasonable to expect that they should work with any execs- of viiror to secure the failure of their own predictions, fcrome of them, unless I have been misinformed, sought to throw the blame upon their men, and alleged that the result of recent political demonstrations at the North had disinclined their men to fight; and the election of "Wall to the United -States Senate from Xew Jersey wa? cited as one thing which had so far affected the troops from" that State as to render them unreliable on the field of battie. I do not believe that this is true, but, even if it were, it would much better become a general of a division to try to overcome it than to cite it as a reason for inactivity. , If this were the first instance in which the willingness of certain officers to behold with entire equanimity the defeat of (Jen. Burnside's plans could be traced intheir lanru!ire and condnet, I should hesitate in attributing the failure of this movement to that causa. But it is not. This is the fnnr'Ji active movement which Gen. Burn sjIe has mde acrainst the enemy during the short time that has elapsed since he superseded Gen. M'C'ltllan. Let us see what has happened in each: 1. flis plan was to throw his army rap idly upin Falmouth, cross over instantly, take possession of the heights, of Freder icksburg, and thus compel the enemy to either fight him iu that strong position, or fall back rapidly upon llichmond. The one tiling absolutely essential to its success was the prompt arrival of the pontoon train. Th:s was under the direction of Gen'. Woodbury, and no satisfactory expla nation of iiis delay has ever yet been made. But that delay defeated the execu tion of the plan. 2. Next came ihe crossing and the battle at Fredericksburg, which was certainly a failure, and which the coun- , try generally brands as a blunder. 1 : think it v:h in General Burnside's power to have corrected that opinion in his tos timon' before the Congres'oml Commit tee. He did net avail himself of that opportunity, hut ss'd that the country would never know how nenr the move ment came to being a success. I see no reason why the country should not know it y Ut,- XiliJV ill'f V ili IIIJL null tne . 1 oiaciui reports cl that uattie are per- mitted to see the l.ght, the Grounds of Gen. Burnside's opinion will be evident to ail. It i-f generally assumed that the main attack on that occasion was againsi the rebel front, posted ar;J entrenched on the crests iu rear of Fredericksburg. This h a mistake which wus correc ted by t ht? General in his testimony. The wain ut tai lc irs d' Rt'jned tt he upon the rcht l rifht, and the object of it was to break their line there, where it was weake.-t, turn them, and then willt the cooperation of Sumner attacking in trout to complete the victory, and convert it into a' rout. Gen. Franklin led the main attack with his own gr'irtd division, and two hinall corps from Hooker's-, lf-is orders were to attack with at I a?l one corns vigorous! v. and then to follow up the attack with prompt aud heavy supports. Ife sent Gen: Mcaele to the attack, conimmdii! z the smallest corps of all. (Jen. Meade attacked with great vigor, brake the. rebel line, ( aefU'il j?Hhrtl hi udiuiice into (he. mid. t of ihv. a turn million icayowt and hti'j'jije-truiii in their rear, lie had com pletely succeeded in the appointed work ; the forces opposed to him were utterly routed, and u!i he needed was prompt and j effective support. This he did' not receive. j Gen. Franklin sent another small corps to his aid, but it arrived too late. The enemy, seeing 3Icado come to a stand, had rallied ; leiiiforcements were pushed for ward, and before 3IeaJj's supports came up his force was driven back, and it bo- ca mo impossible to re establish the line den. 1'ianklm gave as a reason for not senuincr torward heavier and prompter supports, that he was afraid the enemy would stizc tut orufes ana cut njf Jus mean of retreat. G-en Sumner, meantime, had opened the fight to retain as much of the rebel force in front as possible, for the it ! j ..T relic lief of Franklin ; and as ho never does anything but with the utmost impetuosity. he had pusaed the movement till it had assumed the proportions of a terrible en gagement. This bhows "how near" tbtf battle came to being a success. 3. The affair at Fredericksburg, and the investigations that followed it, were uo sooner over than General Buruside prepar ed for another aggressive movement. It embraced an attack in front, at a point sc lected. with care, and u formidable raid of cavalryand artillery, which was to threaten 1 the enemy's communication, and divert ! his attention from the main attack. It was a bold plan, but, if vigorously execu ted, was reasonably certain of success. Every preparation had been made for it. A picked force of cavalry and artillery was got ready, under the command of that dashing and most competent oCi- cer, uencral Averiu, and the execution of the movement was fixed for the olst of December. The column d3stbed to make the raid was actunlly iu motion, when a i reason that the horses were off being wa tc!e;rram from President Lincoln anuoun- ! tered. The hurled their columns against ced to General Burnside that he must make no movement without first consult- inc.' htm. The General at once arrested the march of his troons. and ranaired to Washington. The President iuf mned him that the reason of his dispatch was that some of General Burnside's tubordin- ate oEeers had protest! d vehemently against the movement. Thus failed the third attempt, through the interference and insubordination of oGcers of the army. . 4. The fourth and latest of these at tempts was the one of last Weduesdav. Gu. Burnid; had prepared it with cir. Ife had examined personally and repeat edly tho ground on which it was tu be executed. Ho had fixed the position which each division was to occupy ou crossing the river, lie naa a-:certamed by spies tho movements of the enemy, whom he had completely . deceived by feints as to the point of oros-dng, and couuted, with the utmost confidence, on taking him by surprise. How this move ment camo to fail, I have already endeav ored to show. Before closing this long letter, I desire to correct, animpressio'i which has become qulto current, that General Burnside's letter to General Ifalleck, avowing the entire responsibility of the .battle of Fredericksburg, was written under some kind of pressure from the Government, or at least at the instance, and in some sort with connivance of some among its officers.. I have taken very great pains to ascertain all the facts connected with that transac tion, and E know this impression to be without the slightest foundation. The letter was wholly General Burnside's own iu the original purpose of writing it, iu iis actual composition,, and in its final publication. After the battle, Gen. Ilalleck paid Gen. Buiuside a brief visit ; j but during his stay uot one syllable was! said by either concerning the responsi bility'' for the said battle of Fredericks burg. On the 10th of December, Dr. Church, one of Gen. Burnside's taff; went to Washington on business and returned the next day, briuging with him sundry newspapers. In the evening, General Buruside, bcinir in his tent with several of the gentlemen of his staff, and icadin-r these papers, fell upon'paragraphs in them severely assailing the Secretary of War aud Gen. HaHeck for having ordered him to make the attack, contrary to his own judgment, lie asked Dr. Church if that was the general impression at Washington, and was told that it was. ITe at once said he would soon put th.il right, and on the spot wrote a brief despatch intended for the Associated Fi ess, and embodying the substance of his letter. Some of his staff it iiM iistratcd against his noticing the matteratall; but he answered all thtirob jeetions by saying that no man should bear nu ounce of respousibilit' that belonged to him. lie did yiel i. however, so far as to change the form of his letter, and ad dressed it to Gen. llalleck instead of-the Press. lie came to Washington next day, re-wrote the letter iu his own 100m, had it copied by his private secretary and sent it to the Press before he had exchanged a word with any member of the; Govern ment on the subject. These I know to be the facts-of the case ; ami ih justice to Gcn.BuiuHde, whose iroble -hearted mag-: , . 1 nanimify is among me moM conspicuous traits of his. eharaitor, as well as to the members of the Government, they ought to be neutrally known iat Cor. r- 1 . tMt. 3 A small juvcnila was lately at his mother's knee saying his prayers, com mencing "Our Father," S;c. His fond parent asked him to learn that little child's prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep." AHer maay ineffectual attempts to learn the verse, the little man drew himself up with some dignity, and eaid, "Look here, ma, Pain'? much cu lay mo down to sleep, but jist put me on-our Father, and I can't be beat!" E2iWhat is the greatest curiosity in the world ? A woman's! Jo. g, 19SIi U.S. lisf'axttry Tlie EJaStle of JUui fi ccsburo. Extract from a private letter, dated Camp .NtAIt Mt'R F 1! LES BOKO, TkXX., January t, 1G3. My Dear Sister : Five of the darkest days that ever passed over v.ty head are gone, and thousands lay 'neath the gory field off which I came unscathed. Oh ! Lit was dreadful, was the carnage of that brief period. One-third of our company fell on the deadly field, where we fought the enemy muzzle to muzzle. At dawn on the morning of Dec. 31st, the Bebels attacked Gen. Gill's division, commanded by Gen. Johnson, captuiiug ! eieven cannon at the hrst onslaught oy I irresistible impetuosity. Brigade i brigade rushing on. with bullets and ! steel, thur cannon hurling forth showers ! 0 'on' hail caused our men to retreat iu j confetti. I may say, we were absolute j l' routed. I Yuu c;,n scarcely im.ig"ne what a feel j ,nS il produces upon the observer to see ! thousauJa of men, pauic stricken, running miner anu uutner. me woods were darkened with soldiers filing from the l ; 1 .! ri . line of battle, some wounded, others with out hats or guns, and all seemingly scared almost to death Bousseau viewed the crisis with tears in his eyes, lie rode before his veterans and told them what was left for them to do. To rescue the army from a ruinous disaster, they must turn the tide of battle tney must resist to the last dron of rro- ciou blood, or consent to be chased across the Ohio river. - Rosecrans came dashing up, cold sweat oozing from his-forehead. Just here a cannon-ball took off Gareshea's (his A. A. G.) head, and -the biood plshcd into Rosecrans' face. He glanced at his fa vorite aid's mangled body a moment, then pointed down to a dark line of cedar woods as he told Rousseau something. We saw R jusscau shake his head, aud then he rode up to ns. The die was cast the Regulars must hold those cedars. So we were double-quicked into position, and laid down, at orders, with our guns cocked and fingers on triggers. But a minute more, and the '-butter-nuts" came, six deep, double-quick, on u, but, ah ! "the Regulars were there I" We pott reel suoh an unerring slower of bul lets into their advancing columns as to stagger them. The scene that ensued beggars description. "We were only about one hundred feet apart, in the "dark ce dar woods." They coulJu't drive us. for the. volleys we poured in quick succession into their ranks was too much for flesh and blood. If it was any satisfaction to our dying to see the enemy bite the dust, they had it. Shortly the Regulars were alone. The volunteers had fled from both ends of our t line, and retreat or capture was our only alternative. e chose the former, and, alter being ordered three times to retreat, we left. After leaving the cover of the woods, it wa3 a run for life. The Rebels were ou our heels, and the withering blast j that strewed the grouinr with dead and', dying was terrible I Our old commander, j bteplu-n I). Larpcnter, fell ur.st, riddled with bullets, thus terminating his twenty five years of service. Just as wo passed our batteries, some twenty-live or thirty cannon opened, with a roar that fairly shook the earth. Rous seau flang his hat away, and yelled "Rally, boys, rally! rally, boys, rally 1" We had done our duty gained a few minutes, of infinite value to our army. Rosecrans telegraphed to Washington that he had "sacrificed the Regulars to save his army." We lost one-third our brigade. All this happened before noon We lay in lite of battle for two days and nights. Oa New-Year's morning, we were sur- rounded, and tilings never seemed more r-1 oomy. Abo ui noon, 1 ue licueis mas.seei 1 a poworiui ioree agant our right wintr. but Rosecrans was wide awake, and quick er than lightning he double-quicked three linos of battle to meet them. They at tacked ns, but found us ready. Both armies lay on thrir arms all night. Friday, the '2d January, dawned amid the booming of artillery. Abuit noon Roseenins succeeded in getting his'arniy extricated from tho chaos to which it had been reduced, and his columns and divis ions were a train brought into line. Things :Oian to wear a bri-1 iter arect. W run out of provisions, however, and our men had to commence eating dead horses You must not doubt me when sy that we had to put three guards, with fixed bayonets, over a load of. nnliuskd corn, to keep the men from stealing it until it cuui.l be divided equally ! In the after noon we joined a "Teat victory. Tho xtcoc.a maue a deadly oLset 0:1 our ! 1 111 left NUMBER 19. wing, commanded by Gens. Crittenden and Thomas, driving our men , buck. Rosecrans galloped along the lines, aud in thirty minutes had out twenty thousaud men, in two columns, who charged bayo nets cn the foe. They piled the ground, with dead Rebels, five of them to one of us, and captured several flags. . We droves them back about a mile on the left, and advanced our lines about a quarter of a mile. ' ' On the morning of the 3d, the battler was continued. The Regulars were or dered to the front to elig trenches. Kvcrv spadeful of dirt we threw out was stirred and made light by the buzzing of bullets. It makes one feel somewhat ticklish to have a lot of sharpshooters picking nt him, but to tell the truth I folt no fear. Many were shot down, however, while working. It rained all day, too, and tho water ran in and filled the trenches about as f:i::t as they were dug. But we were satisfied "Old Rose" wasn't going to re- treat. That . night we spent in the tren ches; it rained all the time, and a muddy ditch with twelve to eighteen inches water iu it rather added to our discomfort, yet the boys cracked jokes all night about "that foot-race out of the cedars." Wo didu't like to run. but knew it was death to remain. . . Well, next morning we found that the enemy had evacuated Murfreesboro and fled in the night. They coulda't stand six days' hard fighting without sleep. . Wo were not sorry. Thc-u we got to burying the dead. We hauled nineteen hundred of our killed out of the "dark celars" alone.. The Regulars were all b'uried on a little knoll together. But, oh I' you should have seen the piles of dead Rebels, that lay scattered around, proving with what desperate determination the attack had beeu made. Many a little boy lay there lifeless, their faces wearing an in nocent smile they seemed not to have known the hatred that was deeply imprin ted on the weather-beaten faces of the Arkansas Brigade. We are now iu camp at Murfreesboro,' and straightening up again. : Your allectionate brother. REUBEN JONES. , ' Romantic Love Scene. Tis past the hour of midnight.- The golden god of day, who drove his emblazoned chariot through the heavens, has ceased shining upon tho earth, and a black pall reigns over the lower section of our city. -Nothing is heard save the distant step of tCiEfchan- choly bill poster as he pursues his home ward way. Suddenly a sound breaks the stillness it is the voice "of Frederick William, calling in plaintive tones upon his beloved Florence Amelia. "Throw open the lattice, love, and look- down from the casement, for I, your dear Frederick, am here. . ! . 'What brings tno at.this tirric cf the uiiiht, when all is still and gloomy''" "I come to offer thee my heart. Upon my soul I love thee truly, wildly, pas sionately love thee. Dost thou recipro cate '!" - The maiden bhiIic-J as she hesitated. "Ah," cried he, and the face of our hen lit up with a sa.rd.mic smile, "thou lovestf another"' "Xolno! no!" cried Florence. - . "Then why not rush to this bosom that is bursting to receive thee''" "Because," replied the innocent, but' still trembliug damsel, "l am uiulrcMid .'" CS?" There will be four eclipses this' year, as follows : 1. A partial eclipse of the suu, May 18. Invisible in.the United Stains; except iur California and Orcgou. 2. A total eclipse of the moon June 1; in the evening. Visible in part of tho United States, but generally as"' a partial eclipse. . . . 3. The annual eclipse of the sun, Nov. 11, invisible in America. 4. A partial eclipse of the moon in th morning of Nov. 2:. Digits 11 40. Vi" Fble iu the United States. . grr There, is nothing purer than Jion esty ; nothing sweeter than charity fnoth thing warmer than love ; nothing richer than wisdom ; nothing brighter than vir tue ; nothing more steadfast than faith; uothing surer than friendship. : . - : T A gateway in a Western7 cemetery bears the following notice r "I am au thorized to arrest the Fiist Person that Guts up in this Cemetery Hereafter Swearing is Forbidden. Lewis" W. Stirer Section." Tfkw. Iu tbc Soiuh when the trains get withiu ten miles of the station where din ner is to be aerved up, the passengers leave the train and walk to the station so as to get through dinner by the tiua the cars arrive !