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supplies by river and rail, destroying transports and trains from close proximity to the rear; that it was confidently believed at Richmond that Buell's army would be captured or disposed that it could not possibly make a successful south of the Ohio river; that General Humphrey Marshall had left Abingdon, Virginia, with his division, entering Northeastern Kentucky for the Blue Glass Region, expecting to form a junction with General Kirby Smith, from Beauregard and Bragg's army; that Major General Holmes, at the head of thirty thousand man from Texas, Northwest Louisiana and Arkansas, had pasted Fort Smith, and would soon co-operate with twenty thousand State troops and partisan rangers already in possession of the larger portion of the State of Missouri; that to hold St. Louis and Missouri against the rapidly augmenting force it would require a Federal army of not less than one hundred and fifty thousand men; that all accounts from Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Maryland, represe