Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-11-19
FROM THE UNITED STATES.

FROM THE UNITED STATES.
SHERAAN5 hOvEnENT-"IHE MILITARY NY5-
TERY"-SPE -ULATIONs OF Il YANKEE
PRESS, Eco.
Tue latest Yankee pAPsrs received are chiefly OcCu.
pied Gith spsculaIions in regard to ShermGn'S eXpedi
lion, some OF which, at the risk OF rspeatirg what has
been heretofore oOpisd, We sui Din:
The Cincinnati OoamerSiGI Of l9.h says;
There is nothing to oppose Sherman but the militia
Of the southeastern cotton S:a.ss, and that Ull, per
hsp1, have an pie occupaL 90 10 guarding the army oil
prisoners held in Georgia and South Carolina, and the
Immense multitude Of negroes huddled into these States
bI their masters to keep them out Of our way. The nat
| rsiuit of the lighting in the West ia Sher mans v .otori-
| GUS army stArung from Atlanta without q formidable
Toe in 'front.' The possibilities Of the movement he Ia
making arc sLupend6u'. II he should happen TO Dc
going 10 South Carolina by way Of Algu,ta he can
gather an army OF abls-bodisd negroes on the road
Hs may, by tue sWoop Of hs cavalry and the rapid
N rch Of detached columns, release iofty thousand Uni
led 3 ates soldier I'd without the form Atty Of an exchange.
By holding CHATTANOOGA aud X 'saca, and destroying ali
bs, ond, he can by the time be orossss the Aavannah
river cot Cd all oommuniOI ton, BY rail or Telegraph,
between Richmond aud Georgia, Alabama aud hesis'
| lip aud will place himseli In Lsss rear.
Are ue safe ia Tennessee %hils Sherman swings "a
i soatheaslY We hAvs no doubt OF 1t. We must make
ourselves safe if va sra not. The army left Thomas Ia
EQUAL to that OF Hood, sld with the whole Northwest TO
back him We presume he eau get along. A to pro
vidiug for b s army, 8 ermsn's march will be through a
country full OF corn, one hithtr,o untouched by ths
| desola.ing hand Of war. He VII start With Uall alled
trains, and saesp the country far aud vide a. he moves.
There are no great rivera 10 pass II he goes to South
Carol IA until lie reaches the Savannah, and, OF c)urse,
a pontoOn train GOES With him,
From A lanta TO Au ,usta the distance Ia one hundred
aud seventy ons inlet; from Augusta to Charleston
one hundred aud thirty seven miles. About thee
hundred miles have to be marched, whichever way
Sherman goes, before he Teaches q new base. This is
| c months SsvsTs cork, for there are points at which be
will be annoyed. he is moi likely TO find the roads and
bridges in good Ord,T, mol 10 leave them 30; and bia
enemies are despefs 0 enough TO initiate the X lssisns
in laying waste tneir own country N hs path. Bat We
| presume he may start with fIOd 10 his wagons that
may be made to hold out ( 7 thirty days, and be can
| certainly gather ten days supplies on the road. fhis
would give him forty days to get through, The priT .
oipal danger is frOm bad weather. Il there Sk0aId
happen to occur a forth GIT Of dslEgS. such IS ROse-
craus labored through WIsn he moved from Anrtrees-
boro,, the conss qusnoe might be disastrous. But the
General who led the raid from V~icksburg 10 Q r.dian,
and the column that fought and foIsged from Memphis
10 Rockville, can be trusted 10 6sd hs way from A
laaIa TO the AuIntio.
Tho NV Yo.k Herald (Whoss var news fsiactstns
have the faculty OF seeing further through q lil-stone
than Anybody slsel, favOrs us with tho following Gil
cumstsntiRl narrative:
On Ootobsr 2S Hood moved from Gadsden, through
Lookou Mountain, towards Gunters Landing and De-
catur, on the Tennessee river, near the last of which
places be formed q juno ion with Gen. Dick Tay lor's
armV, which had meantime quietly moved up the No
bie aud o 10 Z rlrOsd TO 0orin,b and thence to Tus
cumbia, the new base Of supplies. He thus placed him
self far In General Shsrmans rear before that oHicsr
could lake Steps to transfer his army 10 the new front
o the rebels on tina Tennessee. Hoods advance had
probably reached the Tennessee before General SheI-
man positiv, ly knew that be had abandoned Gadsden'
Undoubtedly il was m och to his surprise when, on Oct.
25, he TT ed the gap and found Il abandoned by Hood.
Toe position was certainly startling. He dared not fol
Low, thus abandoning his line Of supplies 10 venture In
a noun, ainous cou airy, through which a rye army had
in t pas OF. 1t was impossible to transfer hhs entire ar.
nv to Hoods front in time to meet him and thus hold
| hs commuricat ons intact. The position demanded 70
80 'ution AID action. rs Was not allow to resolve and
SGT.
"Let him 20 North, " he exclaimed to his council ;
q" our husineFs IL doun South"
| He represented TO bis officers that the situation of
aft Ls iisti6ed him 10 considering his column an indie
| pendent one, without q foe 10 confront. Rousseau and
| Wool ia corpa with horgEns division Of the Fourteenth
| ald Twenty bird corps, entire, were In Tennessee,
along the ias Of the Tennessee river. They more than
eauslled BeaureRnds foIcss. General Slocum's corps
Wasin Atlanta, fsebly bss.eged by Iser ol's cavalry
He remained With the Hover OF bis sImy-With the
cores that stood at Ohiokamsuga With Thnmls and tie
Lcorps OF Grants old army that bssieged VioksburE and
T lisVsd Chattanooga, lying In what Governor Brown
ils the "heart spd railroad centre Of The Sou.h." with
oily th G0oFg.s mil tis-the r,eFs shadow Of 90 amy
10 OPP 80 hin. He d%'ternined at this imp 1rtant
juac ure 10 rstums his original intention, and, ignorirg
the very txiSence of Hood, carry Out his rGsnsiye
c,mpalEn from Atant'. He determined to follow II cd
n, lfnEer, bat babe him speed" on lis Jour ,ey North.
eff he will 60 TO the river" he said, Il i'll give hin
his ~rasicns," but failed to intimsie that be proposed 10
consider t'em raiions to prisoners,
Toe rssolu ion was prom pity formed end he prelm-
ioary movements as rapidly executed. By Ne, emStr
the Army Of the Tear e'sse had left R1me and was
en- route 20 A lsnts. On November 4 the Eve corps
the Ia h, IL h 10th, l7;h and 20 h-had been co,ceI =
inst. d ct the last mentioned city, and rapid prspsrs-
tons were beiag made to begin she mach. ShsrmIn
left in the highest Up ritz, and telegrsphed bis inten
lions In these remarkable words
Hood has crossed the Tennessee. Thomas viii take
care of him and Nashville, while Hchofsld will not lot
him into Chattanooga or Klox Hlis. Georgia and South
Carolina are at my merry, aud / shall strike. D. not
b anxious about nae. lam ell right