The history of that battle, as the Rebels have given it, shows that they expected to overpower General Grant before General Buell could come up.

They would then cross the Tennessee, meet and defeat Buell, and recapture Nashville.

The defeat of these two armies would have placed the Valley of the Ohio at the command of the Rebels.

Louisville was to have been the next point of attack.
The dispute between the officers of the Army of the Tennessee and those of the Army of the Ohio is not likely to be terminated until this generation has passed away.

The former contend that the Rebels were repulsed on the evening of the 6th of April, before the Army of the Ohio took part in the battle.