Submitted by James M. Burton

THE NEW-YORK TIMES
VOL. XIII - NO. 3789.
NEW-YORK, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER, 15, 1863.
FURTHER FROM THE REBEL STATES
RECENT OPERATIONS IN TENNESSEE
THE SITUATION IN TENNESSEE
From the Richmond Examiner, Nov. 10, 

The mails bring us nothing new from Tennessee. Nothing has occurred since the enemy crossed over to the south side of the Tennessee River. The enemy holds his position there, and all efforts so far have proved unsuccessful to dislodge him. The pickets of the two armies are within two or three hundred yards of each other, and operations are now suspended by heavy rains, which, it is said, have the Lookout Valley - the valley between the enemy's position and Lookout Mountain. Meanwhile, our troops are said to be in fine condition and anxious for battle. The Chattanooga Rebel says of the situation: "The intelligence from 'the of war' is of an exciting character. Our dispatches this morning hint all movements indicative of stirring times in the vicinity of Chattanooga. Gen. Hardee is already at Missionary Ridge. His Staff went up yesterday noon. Our battery on Lookout shelled the enemy's wagons and a portion of his infantry, within range, yesterday afternoon. It is believed test the present condition of the enemy, with his lack of transportation and supplies, will not allow of a movement on his part before December, at least. In the meantime, the impression prevails in army circles that our army will not be idle, and a vigorous campaign is in prospect.

I wrote you from here immediately after the battle of Chickamauga; I told you that Gen. Bragg would neither storm or besiege Chattanooga. This opinion was not concurred in by anybody, but five weeks have passed and he has done neither. A slow bombardment was tried one day, but after expending $40,000 worth of ammunition it was ordered to be stopped. The fire was ineffectual. Nevertheless, I heard an artillery Major swear, by all the powers of cold iron and powder, that he could place the right sort of pieces on Missionary Ridge and Lookout, and blow Chattanooga into "smithereens." We have a wonderful gun in our army - the Whitworth rifle. It kills at two thousand yards - over a mile. It is a small gun, not larger than the Mississippi rifle. With a few of these rifles, Longstreet shot across the Tennessee River, and drove the Yankees from the use of the river road, by killing the teamsters and blocking up the road.

Gen. Bragg is at work slowly, but surely, recovering East Tennessee. I believe that in ten days from this date our army will hold Knoxville and all the line of railroad to Virginia. Then a heavy column can pass down from Knoxville, and, if Wheeler is strongly assisted on the left, he can move toward Nashville. Thus will Rosecrans' army be obiliged to retreat. As the case stands now, I do not see what advantage Chattanooga is to him. The mere possession of Chattanooga is nothing but an inconvenience to him, unless he is strong enough to advance against us, and to hold East and West Tennessee. If we have Knoxville and the railroad to Virginia he cannot hold Chattanooga. I suppose he has the remainder of his army between the river and Jasper, his railroad depot. He has to wagon his supplies from Jasper to Chattanooga by an indirect route of forty-five miles. No wonder, then, that his Chattanooga garrison are starving."