SHERMAN’S MARCH: OUR ARMY NEAR SAVANNAH; The Rebels are Reticent No Longer (12/10/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 12/10/1864

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 9.

By the arrival of the mailboat from City Point, we learn that in the rebel lines it was reported on Wednesday evening that SHERMAN's advance was within six miles of Savannah. At this point he had halted and was awaiting the arrival of certain portions of his command which had been sent in different directions for the purpose of misleading the enemy. Deserters who gave this information also state that there is great dissatisfaction in the rebel ranks because correct information of SHERMAN's movements is withheld from them. Especially is this so among the Georgia troops. They also report that many of our prisoners have escaped from their confinement and joined SHERMAN. It was also evident from the conversation of these deserters that LEE had detached troops from his army and sent them to Georgia to assist in arresting SHERMAN's advance. It is not too great an inference to draw from the above facts that are this SHERMAN has thundered at the gates of Savannah, and most probably with success. Up to a late hour this evening, the Government had no later advices from him than those contained in the Richmond papers of "Wednesday. News of his arrival on the coast is, however, daily expected by our authorities.

NEWS FROM REBEL SOURCES.

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec 9.

The Richmond papers of the 7th, received here at the office of the Philadelphia Inquirer, contain the following important items from Georgia:

NEWS FROM REBEL SOURCES.

From the Richmond Enquirer, Dee. 7.

The military situation is culminating -- is becoming intensely, and to this part of the Confederacy, vitally interesting. The advance of SHERMAN's army, since he crossed the Oconee, has been slow and cautious,

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Sherman’s March: Our Army Near Savannah – 2
Army of the Potomac: An Important Movement on Foot – 2-3
From Fortress Monroe: Burning of Two Schooners on the James River – 3
Department of the South: Temporary Interruption of the Exchange of Prisoners – 3
Affairs in Front of Nashville – 3
More of the Pacific Pirates: Additional Captures Probable – 3-4
News from Washington – 4
Editorial: Sherman in Southern Georgia – 4
Our Old Soldiers – 4-5
The Prussian Extradition Case-Guldenfuss Before U.S. Commissioner White – 5
Affairs in Kentucky – 5
Affairs at St. Louis – 5
The Raid on Detroit – 5
The Case of Burley, the Pirate – 5
The Canada – 5
Amusements – 5
The Rebel Plunderers – 5
Public Gas – 5
From California – 5
Marine Disasters – 5
The Gale at Oswego – 5
The Weather at Baltimore – 5

[nuke_road_warrior]

After more than three and a half years of war, the Union can finally see victory on the horizon. Even the NYT is in agreement that Sherman’s march is the death blow to the Rebel cause. Another five months and this terrible war will finally be over.

[John S Mosby]

See: Anaconda. It had long ago starved out. Sherman did not need to do this, and it was not any kind of brilliant stroke. A capable pragmatic man who had his own neurasthenia to deal with, and... alcohol. Like his protector Grant, who had to protect him from the slime ball Stanton and his Pinkerton spy networks working with the Canadian CSA. No one talks or thinks about this. The Dahlgren Raid was all Stanton’s idea (to kill Jeff Davis. It failed, and was run by the truly crazy Kilpatrick, “kill cavalry”). Stanton covered up and destroyed evidence of Boothe’s diary (this is not subject to question- he withheld it from Lew Wallace’s Tribunal court).

Stanton is one slimy Lincoln hating SOB hero of the Radicals.