Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-02-27
LATE FROM THE SOUTH.
WHERE THE REBELS EXPECT TO FIGHT.
From the Richmond E.canl. FEB. 10.

The enemy threatens attack on three differ
ent points Vicksburg, Charleston and Tulla-
homa. The first is not now in danger. The
preparations at Vicksburg are thought ample,
the position is one of the strongest, and pro-
/ badly it will not be attacked until the fate Of
the armies in Tennessee is decided. If Rose
Grams can beat US in Tennessee his army will
sweep down the Mississippi and take Vicksburg
in the rear. A great battle will be shortly
| fought in Tennessee, which will do much, to
decide the war in the West. But at the pre-
sent moment the whole of that important scene
is forgotten in the absorbing interest felt in the
more immediate menace of Charleston and
Savannah The hour is struck, the day is
come when the destinies of those famous cities
of the South is to be forever decided. The
magazines, the arsenals and workshops Of the
chief among maritime and industrial nations
have for year been taxed in their utmost re-
source, TO prepare the most perfect and gigan-
tic engine of destruction that ever burdened
the waters Of the Atlantic The vast armada
has been collected with the deiberaton of ab-
solute security in the capacious harbor Of Port
Royal.
A land FORGIVE know not how large but
probably comprising the most effective por-
tons of the army lately under 3urnside-haS
gone to cooperate in the supreme effort to take
and hang those two Mordecais that sit at the
gates Of the ocean, and offend the Humans of
New York and Boston Against the city Of
Charleston the entire Northern people enter
tain a sentiment Of perfect hatred. 1t was the
cradle Of the revolution. 1t will be the New
y ork Of the South when the revolution is tri-
umphant. Years before the revolution was
begun it was the recognized centre and capt.
tai of resistance to Northern influence inso-
lence and encroachments.
1t is generally supposed that the Northern
| fleet will recoil from Charleston and throw all
its power on Savannah As it is q place Of
much inferior Importance to the Confedcracy,
in every point Of view, it is believed to be
much less strongly fortified The Yankee gum
boats have already tried it, and their COM
manders fancy that they are equal to the task
of its reduction. If they succeed in doing so,
the North will conceal modification for the
fasco of Charleston by forced exultation over
a barren victory. Let us hope that the labor
and time of preparation, which has been more
than all that the friends of either city could
desire, will now bring forth the fruits of
glorious and successful defence.
GENERAL HooKER's ARMY" REPORTED At FORT
REss MONROE.
From The Richmond Examiner, Feb. 20.
Information, deemed authentic, has been
received in official circles that the greater part
Of liooker's army are now at Fortress Mon !
much demoralized, and it is believed were
moved from the Rappahannock because Of the
numerous assertions that were daily occurring |
and which threatened to break up the organi- |
szation of the army. The number that have |
been sent to Suffolk are estimated at twenty |
five thousand. The occupation of Newport
News, it is thought, is intended to be Of long |
duration, as the troops have been set about the
construction Of cabins, ovens, &c.
TIE RECENT AFFAIR an FORT DoNELsoN.
Ten days ago the Yankee papers were filed
with accounts of an attack of Gen. Forrest on |
Fort Douelson and his disastrous defeat. They |
stated that, with the loss Of only three or four
men, the Yankees in the Fort had killed, |
wounded and taken prisoners, 500 Of Forrest s
men, MORALLY wounded Forrest himself and
captured l of his cannon. Every one who
saw these accounts, after having made due al
| lowance for Yankee gasconade, feared that our
arms had met with something near akin to q
disaster on the ill-lated ground of Doneson,
but as no report of the affair had been forward
cd to headquarters in this city, we some days
ago concluded that 1t could be Of little conse-
quence. We now learn from the Chattanooga
ReJel that the tale Of the defeat Of Forrest,
and the terrible carnage in his ranks, was
purely Yankee fiction.
II appears that Forests and Wharton {
brgades attacked the Fort, killed fourteen Of
the enemy, wounded thrty-seyen, and took |
eighty prisoners, one cannon and destroyed
one transport. Our entire list in killed, |
wounded and missing, was ninety-eight.
G9~ We copy from the Nqtional Latelligencer |
Of the 18th instant the following General Or
der, announcing 70 The Army the death Of
Col. J. j. ALERT. lie was a native Of this State,
having been born in Frederick city, on the |
nth Of September, 1898. With one Of our
State interests--the Chesapeake q Ohio Canal
he was for many years identified, and it re-
ceiyed the benefit Of his high scientific attain
ments as an Engineer, and his indefatigohle in
dustry rs a Director.
He won for himself an enduring reputation
in the corps Of which he was SO long the dis
tinguished head, and did more, perhaps, than
any other man, in developing the commerce
and navigation Of our Western Lakes and HI
vers, and in direeting those expeditions into
the far West, under Nicollet, Fremont, and
other officers of bis corps; which have added
50 much 10 the natural history and geographic |
cal information respecting those regions
General Orders, No. 25.