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[1] Copy, DLC-RTL. Halleck's despatches to Rosecrans on July 24 and 25 continued to urge the importance of a movement on General Braxton Bragg's army at Chattanooga before Bragg could be reinforced by General Joseph E. Johnston: ``There is great disappointment felt here at the slowness of your advance. Unless you can move more rapidly, your whole campaign will prove a failure . . . .'' (OR, XXIII, II, 552). On August 1, Rosecrans replied to Halleck, explaining the difficulties of terrain and supply which confronted his army (ibid., p. 585), and also wrote Lincoln to the same effect, with the observation that ``Genl. Hallecks dispatches imply that you not only feel solicitude for the advance of this Army but dissatisfaction at its supposed inactivity.'' (DLC-RTL).