Posted on 11/21/2024 6:51:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, Nov. 20.
It is not contraband now to state that it is known Gen. SHERMAN will touch at Macon. He has five corps of veteran infantry -- the Fourteenth and Twentieth of the Army of the Cumberland, and the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth of the Army of the Tennessee, consisting in all of over 50,000 men. He has 9,000 picked cavalry, under KILPATRICK, and has thirty days' rations for man and beast. He goes fully equipped in every particular. His scout system and courier line is so complete as to guard against the possibility even of a failure. The country through which he goes is abundantly supplied with meats and bread, and is a sandy country, traversed by but few streams. If it rains a week on a stretch, it dries up or soaks down into the clay in a few hours. After arriving at Macon, he will probably go to Milledgeville, where he will divide his army, sending a part of it to Savannah, and a part to Augusta. He will fortify the latter place, and after receiving supplies up the Savannah River, he will be able to move on Columbia or Charleston. The programme, if carried out successfully, completely demolishes the railroad system of the State of Georgia. The Western and Atlantic, running from Chattanooga to Atlanta, one hundred and thirty-eight miles, is almost totally destroyed, it will take a year to rebuild it, with no inconvenience in obtaining iron. The Georgia Railroad, (a State institution, as is also Western and Atlantic, and to which the Confederacy is indebted many millions of dollars) running from Atlanta to Augusta, 171 miles, is destroyed from Atlanta to Covington, 41 miles. The occupation of Augusta will add to its destruction.
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Sherman’s March: Beauregard and Hood Outwitted – 2-3
Army of the Potomac: Vast Improvements at City Point – 4
From Sheridan’s Army: The Late Attack upon a Detachment of the Seventeenth Pennsylvania Cavalry – 4
From Tennessee and Mississippi: Defeat of Gen. Gillem near Bull’s Gap – 5
News from Washington – 5
Editorial: Sherman’s March – 5
Editorial: What Makes the Triumph Complete – 5-6
Editorial: The Prospects of the South – The Guerrilla “Free Companies” – 6
Editorial: The Soldiers in the Field and their Families at Home – 6-7
The British Colonial Union – 7
Lord Lyons – 7
The New-Haven Railroad Disaster – 7
The Blockade Partially Raised – 7
Naval – 7
General News – 7
Amusements this Evening – 7
Death of Gen. Canby – 7
BH Liddell Hart wrote about Sherman, and always used the phrase: he kept his opponents "on the horns of dilemma"
It’s about time for “ Homer “ to initiate a daily World War One thread.
The New York Times was a cheerleader for that bloody, senseless war as well.
The material on the War of Northern Aggression has become tiresome, and repetitive.
C’mon Homer. You can do it.
I disagree. It is amazing to relive the war as it happened.
Bias and all.
Homer I read and learn something from every post.
I heard a talk last night at the local Civil War roundtable about Hood’s retreat after the battle of Nashville (getting what was left of his army back to Corinth, Miss.). Forrest played a major role. Some of those who made it back were then sent to North Carolina to help in the resistance against Sherman. They were able to go mostly by train (roundabout route) except for about 60 miles in Georgia on either side of Atlanta where Sherman had destroyed the tracks. But I believe the speaker said Sherman bypassed Macon.
Dude, you invented tiresome and repetitive.
Sherman’s Guards and the ones who torched Atlata were SOUTHERN UNIONISTS.
Imo, not enough is written about the role that Southern Unionists, following in Jackson’s footsteps played In the War.
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