Posted on 11/20/2024 6:09:19 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Departure of His Army from Atlanta-One Column Seventy Miles South on the 14th.
From the Cincinnati Gazette, Nov. 18.
From private advices, both by letter and telegraph, we learn that SHERMAN is advancing from Atlanta toward Savannah River in two columns. The first set out, one account says, the 7th, another the 9th inst., (probably the last date,) on the road to Macon. On the 13th or 14th inst., it was seventy miles in advance, driving everything before it, and destroying everything behind that could aid the enemy, and intending to pursue this policy to the end. The other column, we understand, set out three or four days later, and undoubtedly intending to unite with the other at a suitable point. The army is stated in some accounts at 45,000, and in others at 55,000, a large portion being cavalry, under KILPATRICK. The largest estimate is probable, the army being composed of four corps, and largely reinforced.
SHERMAN took with him rations for many days, but expected to find ample provisions on the route. Corn and sweet potatoes he will find in abundance, and probably hogs.
Such is our information from several sources; but at the same time it should be recollected that a General, at the head of a movable army in the field, must act according to circumstances, and he may be turned from the course we suppose him to have taken by contingent events, of which we have now no knowledge. We understand him to be on his march through Georgia, to make the South Atlantic Squadron, at Beaufort, his new base of supplies, if he needs one; but if the country, as we suppose, is sufficient to maintain his army, there is no absolute need of any new base.
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Sherman’s March: How and When He Left Atlanta – 2-3
From Sheridan’s Army: The Late Reconnoissance by the Enemy – 3-4
The War in Tennessee: Defeat of Gen. Gillem near Bull’s Gap – 4
The War in Florida: The Destruction of the Marsh Fishery – 4
The War in Missouri: Horrible Chapter of Guerrilla Atrocities – 4-5
Department of the Gulf – 5-6
Department of the Southwest: Official Dispatch from Gen. Sanborn – 6
The Indian Troubles: Return of Capt. Fisk – 6
Rebel Deserters – 6
From Texas: Escape of the Julia from Calcasieu – 6
From the South: The Southern “Peace Party” – 6-9
News from Washington – 10
I wonder how this war would have turned out if there the electronic lying media were embedded in Sherman’s army and lied their rear ends off like they do today?
"The American press is a shame and a reproach to a civilized people. When a man is too lazy to work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor and manufactures public opinion."
“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”
~William T. Sherman
I’ve had a suspicion the American press has been a joke long before my time. And yes, they do manufacture public opinion.
That’s a good quote.
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