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elements of success at our command, - arms, money
and a just cause, we ought to be making some
permanent progress, - to be sure we have driven the
enemy from Louisville to this place and we may
drive them into Alabama, - we have done it once
before - but we will wake up some fine morning
and find the army back at this old place in
Kentucky & Tennessee, and we will have to toddle
back and fight it all over again, - they are even
now in the rear of us and are doing more
damage in northern Tennessee & Kentucky than we
are to them, - It does seem to me that there is a
lack of judgement, or energy, or gumption or something
- There is something rotton somewhere - I believe
the only way to settle up this war, is to kill everything
that has got fresh blood, and burn everything
that will burn, - in that way we can
clean it out as far as we go, and preclude the
necesity of furnishing a garrison for all the conquered
Teritory, - And another thing, if our strength
is not sufficient to cope with them, if we cannot
whip them with our army as it is, let us know it
and understand it, but my way is to not call
for any more of our northern men, but let us grasp
the tools that our enemy can give us, that which
will weaken him and strengthen us, in a word
strike the chains from the blacks, arm them, give
them for a watch word "Liberty or death" and lead them
on to battle, and [...ssia?] will soon tire of his