Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-12-03
SHERMAN!
The Richmond Press on SheF-
mans Order.
sPEoULAT1ONs ON HIS PROGRESS
DEsOLATION BEHIND HIM!
"He may Reach the Sea-"

DER-sHERMAE TAKING HIS TINE IN
GEORGIA.
From the Richmond Wing, Nov. 2sth.l
The New York Herald of the oath pub
fishes General Sherman's orders to his
army for the march in which he is now
engaged. These orders are dated at
Kingston on the 9Th inst, just three days
before the Yankee army was put in motion
from Atlanta. They are nightly interest
ing, and, TO some extent important; not
50 much in developing the ultimate inten-
ton of Sherman as in showing the char
acter Of his movement, and in mspifesting
the difficulties which he anticipated and
the manner in which he sought to provide
against them.
The salient facts which force themselves
on our attention are, in the first place, that
Sherman has determined to cut loose from
his communications, and to undertake this
expedition without having any base of
operations in his rear; thus being cOmpell-
ed, of course, to subsist on the country, or,
in other words, to live from hand to mouth.
The adoption of this course would seem to
imply that he designed toconyert his army
into q moveable or flying column, the
great characteristic and object OF which
organization are celebrity of movement
condition generally considered IudIspens-
able to the successful issue of such expedi-
tions, and even to their safety. But inthis
case Sherman does not appear to aim at
any such object. His orders are that his
army move at the rate of fifteen miles
day-s degree of progress not at all con-
sonsnt with the idea of rapidity OF march
which we usually associate with flying
column. There is one way, and but one
way, it seems TO us, to account for this IN
eongrUity-and that is that Sherman,
fully convinced, like the editors of the
Yankee papers, that all the available force
of the Confederscy was concentrated in the
armies of Lee and Hood, and that both of
these generals would be too much occupied
or too far removed from the scene of the
campaign, to be able to detsch any portion
of their forces to operate against him, en-
tertained no fear of meeting any serious
resistance to his advance and anticipated
no obstacles except those which might be
interposed by a hostile but unOrgsnized
and unsrmed population. These indeed,
seem to have suggested themselves to him.
and to avert or to prevent them, he adopts
the system so much in vogue with his coun-
trymen, and which has already been car
ried to so high a pitch of perfection by
Sherman and other Yankee commanders,
in districts where the inhabitants attempt
to impede his march by obstructing roads,
burning bridges or otherwise annoying his
| invading columns, devastation and ruin
are to be dealt out; the intensity of the
punishment TO be proportionste to the
offence. According to Sherman's code
and Sherman declares that he wishes to
conduct war on civilized principles-it is
the duty of the people to welcome invs-
ding foes not to hospitsble graves, but to
| hospitable boards; 10 treat them by no
means as enemies, but as friends, or at the
worst as stranger guests; TO feed them lib
orally on sweet potatoes and hog and hon.
| inv: and to build bridges for them and dig
1 rOads-snd do all manner Of nrnicsble SER
vice. Else Sherman will ravage their fields,
destroy their crops, burn their houses, and
perhaps he happen to be in a very bad
humor, entirely extirpate them from the
face of the earth. But should they behave
themselves like good children, betraY their
country and welcome their Yankee mas
ters, then Sherman promises to do nothing
more severe than to eat up their provisions
and give them only only mild and gen.
tie taste of starvation.
twill be observed that there is nothing
IN these orders to sustain the assertion OF
the Yankee prints that Sherman set out
from Atlanta with thirty days supply OF
substance. On the contrry, We are led
to infer that he toook nothing, or next to
nothing, with him in the way of provisions
He distinctly tells his men that they are
to rely on the country for food, and he I'M
presses on the various commanders the ne
cessity of collecting In their wagons, by
foraging, at least ten days supply in sd.
vance Having thus settled the COM
missariat question to his satisfaction, he
GEMS to have settled down iIto the com.
Portable assurance that he will make safe
and easy march of fifteen miles per day
| unembarrassed by obdurste Confederate
soldiers, and unimpeded by anything like
military resistance. 1t is encouraging to
us to know that even this limited rate Of
advance has not, up to this date, been &C
complished by the Yankee army. We dc
not intend to inform the Ysnkee newsps
pers where Sherman now is but we feel
no hesitation in assuring them that he is
not in Charleston or Savannah, or either
in Macon or Augusta; and that not one
of those cities has ever been threatened
by his forces. We Can tell them likewise
that his march has been even more leisure
ly than he anticipated; and that so far
from accomplishing the modest fifteen
miles day, provided for in his orders, he
has not attained much more, on an aver
age than the half of that rate 1t is now
fifteen days since he left Atlanta. In a
week he was to be in possession of Macon,
and in twelve days of Augusta, and in 9
/ few days more of some other important
| point; but where is he noW2 We leave
it to the Yankee papers to guess, supply
ing them only with the information that
he has not found swC ct potatoes very abun-
dsnt in Georgia, and that hog and nominy
have not been served W for the prsndial
entertainment of his bedevilled troops.
sHERMAN's CAMPAIGN FAILURE UNLESS
BE CAPTURES MACON OK AUGUSTA.
From the Richmond Examiner, Nov. 2s.
The significance Cf Sherman's campaign
in Georgia is msgnifed beyond the limit,
not only of reason, but of common sense,
both in the North and in those portions of
the cotton States where the hardships oi
war have been hitherto known only
through newspapers. It is represented as
a regular dissolution of continuity between
two great divisions of the Confederate
States. Look, say the makers of alarm
and the makers of humbug slike-look at
the track of Sherman over the mapl II
he moves from Chattanooga to the sea-
coast he cuts the confederacy in halves,
and sewers every railroad between Vir-
ginia and Alabama. He will interpose ''a
wall of steep between Lee and his sup
plies. He has only to take all the towns
as he took Atlanta and have them garrison
ed, establish ''chain of posts across the
country and the Confederacy will be
strsngled in the middle. With such stuff
can men be amused Two hundred
Thousand men wonld not be sufficient to