Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-08-20
The Wars rrogress.

More than two-thirds Of the rich do
main of Treason has been recovered.
Soon after the war began in earnest,
the Union lines were at Alexandria
and Arlington flights, the rebels hav-
ing control over all the rest Of Virgin
ia except Fortress Monroe. Along the
entire seaboard, there were but two
Union flags on shore-at Key West
and Fort Pickens. The Mississippi
was closed from it's mouth almost to
the Ohio Tennessee and Missouri had
been forcibly dragged into the Confed-
eracy by Governor Harris and Price /;
Texas had been basely betrayed into
their hands by the infamous Twiggs I;
the Indians had been coaxed or CO.
creed into allies Kentucky was the
only debateable ground below the Slave
State line, except Delaware and the
eastern part of Maryland.
1t is unnecessary to rehearse the
measures taken, the battles fought,
and the victories won to reconquer this
vast domain. Suffice it to say that
Missouri is firmly in the Union, with a
prospect of getting rid of Slavery
the Territories are free from any con
siderable rebel force the Indians
have mostly returned to the old Gov
eminent /; Arkansas is being rapidly
cleared of the few Confederate troops
under Hindman Western Texas is
and always has been loyal the brave
little army under Banks has given us
back the State of Louisiana Grants
glorious success at Vicksburg, followed
by that of Banks at Port Hudson, gives
us the freedom of the great river, and
sweeps the rebel line back to Alabama;
Kentucky has just asserted her loyal
ty to the Union by 10000 majority /;
Rosecrans has just driven Bragg to
the confines of Georgia, and is on the
point of finishing the rebellion in long.
suffering Eastern Tennessee West
Virginia, vigorous Free State, has
been sliced from the slave-breeding
Old Dominion Lee, smarting under
the sting of Gettysburg, once more
abandons "My Maryland" and all
Northern Virginia, to put the Kappa
hammock between himself and danger
on the Peninsula, along the James
river, at Norfolk, over the North Caro-
lima Sounds as far as Beaufort, we
have complete control /; the sea coast
of South Carolina is ours, and to day
the fall of Sumpter and consequently
of Charleston is almost a foregone
conclusion we have the keys of all
the harbors on the Atlantic the State
of Florida-though scarcely occupied
by either side-is practically in the
Union again.
Thus the rebellion looks on land
shorn Of two-thirds of its claimed ter.
ritory, and five-twelfths of its popula.
ton reduced from l,223, 900 to 1856,
600 square miles, and from twelve and
a half millions to little more thar
five millions of people and of these
five millions nearly one-half are slaves
At sea, the kind favor of Great Brit.
ain gives the Confederacy few pirate
vessels, but the last hope of creating
or even buying navy worth the name
has vanished, gone with the Merrimac,
the Fingal and the gunboats of the
Mississippi.
Thus we find the boosted Confedera-
cy pressed in on all sides, already de-
prived of two-thirds of its area its
vast armies with single exception
defeated, dispirited, and by their own
admissions, rapidly depicting by de
sertions.