Posted on 02/24/2025 7:34:54 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
GRANT'S GREAT COMBINATIONS.
From the Richmond Examiner, Feb. 21.
The enemy is now gathering all the available forces from all Yankee armies and garrisons, and directing them for one combined movement against Richmond. SHERMAN advancing through South Carolina while BEAUREGARD slowly retreats before him towards Charlotte -- FOSTER, or some other commanding FOSTER's troops, making demonstrations with heavy force on the Roanoke and Neuse Rivers eastward, while rumor says that the Yankee force in East Tennessee is, at the same time, to cross the Alleghany and come down into North Carolina by the West, thus, advancing both by way of Weldon and by way of Salisbury, attempting to take BEAUREGARD in flank, or even to cut him off by uniting in his rear; while GRANT waits patiently within his fortifications for SHERMAN's appearance on the line of the Danville Railroad; so that the whole accumulated power of the Federal hosts may close in on Richmond, cut off its supplies and compel its surrender.
It is all extremely fine, but not new; we have heard of something of this sort before; and even more than once. It is one of those magnificent combinations, extending over a vast space, which now form the well-known characteristic of Yankee warfare. These superhuman combinations satisfy and exalt the imagination; but they have the disadvantage of always failing in some one essential part. In a newspaper programme, on the map, and, we dare say, in the general orders assigning to each army and commander his special duty, all to be accomplished by a given day -- this sort of campaign undoubtedly looks majestic; only when set a going and brought into collision with hard facts, it somehow becomes dislocated. Thus the contemplation of those many armies approaching from all points of the compass,
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