, 1864-12-28
Chicago Uribn11t>
FROM ATLANTA 70 SAVANNAH.
SkERHAk'S kARCH---jGyRhAL Of
Am EYEWITNESS.
Graphic Description Of the Incidents
The Fights On the Way~Thanks.
giving.Day--Plenty Of
Turkeys. >
Entire Destruction Of all the Rail-
roads--ConrerSationS with
Whites and Blacks. .
FROM ATLANTA 70 SAVANNAH

WINES and BLACKS. -
[Fsom the n 7. Evening Postl
NEAR ATLANTA, Oct II. 1854.
Tic last few days have been full Of excitement
md deepest intrrest. Tho strategic combinations
Of Gen. Sherman, which haze mystAed many and
called sorth the anxiety and curfosity OF all are
conceived upnu tho broadeat scale
which. 1t is not extrayagaut to sag, has ever been
Ealov n IN military science. We begin to under
moved to Rome, after passing through The ALA
toonn Hils, ipstcad Of marching directly on Rcsa-
ca. Hood al the t3me was three days march In
advance Of us. Gen. Sherman knew very well that
In no event could Hood be oyerhkcn should he
continue to advance. aud be mnch preferred that
bis swin footed foe should pass to the ieit rather
than 10 the right lfl1ool hsd gone easthe would
then Eept q tie soathward, When he would hare
been in cur present 'front.' offering obstacles serf
ons enough perhaps to hare dc!.atcd tar morc-
ments now tn progress.
now HOOD WAS EA1rED.
shernan's rapid wheel to the lcFt, through
Snakes Creek Gap, forced Hood either to proceed
directly eonth toward Montgomery, or westward
The corquereE Of Atlanta, prodfgal in hfs well
Won % ~ gsfoE aspe o. rz
casily gained with vista Of glorious possibilities
opening up IN kfntucky, and 1t might be beyond
Wei might Tic rebel General gladden. his heart
with the aaticipaious Of riot uAl p!unsr. and lo
.hou. ht lie saw clearly In illc immediate future
s Is e
dNyt, md the dreaded Sherman, with Ills Yankee
horsc following fast In hi5 footsteps to save the
North tom invasion and pillage. And thus. Civ
ing rest 10 the Naked Weary feet uf his soldiers.
he moved at once n'the direction Of Florence, on
tic Icnnes sec river.
Meanwhile Sherman had arrived At thc foot Of
tie chattanooga Valley in pursuit. Retaining hts
main force at Gaylesville, throwing ont s1rong
connoiesarccs in the direction OF the enemy, nntil
aecertainiug beyond question that hood had
ihc It'll corps, sending linn to the Moth toward
"zna,' chucklcd Hood, ''this is rs hoped; my
t,atfy 3S tre TIC
Rome; Sclo6cld, With portion Of the Army Of
the Clio. was ct pncc sent 70 Chattanooga These,
with Stanley's troops furnished Gen. Thomas
who held supreme command, an who hnd full In
st-uctions from Gen. Sherman covering every con-
tfrgcncy, with veteran army Of some thirty
thousand men. which. with those already in tho
composed q sufficient torce to aenolish Hood, ii
they should meet; IN event which will t.ke place
at Gen. Thomas, option, and not at Hoods, II that
pcrson IS much longer at the rivers bank, where
he has halted his columns, Us u doubtful What
Course next to pursue
PREPARATIONS FOE TIE NArcH.
Gen. Sherman has called to him from Atlanta
Ills Ch3ef Quarterulaster, Gen. Easton, and Chief
Commiassry, Col. BecEsith-nen Of great con;
ccptiye and executive capacity In tour days all
that Rome contained Of sicx and wounded, stores
and machinery, was removed, and the city orlcu
ated; 4 few days mnre4 ind the vast amount o
xilh III invailds md ircompetents, which hid &C
cunlul1tcd ut Atlanta and along the railroad, tht
surplus artillery, baggage and other useless wag
n In ,uta % TRlsh M .1n mona az anp4'
cred ur and sent safely to the North.
On the 1ath instant the last train OF cass whiset
rnpidly pa=t the troops moving south. speeding
over bridges and into the woods as II they feeret
they might be left helpless in the deserted and
At Cpttisyilic the last communications with III
North Terc severed with the telegraph wires. !
And so We have cut adr1ft from our base Of opera
tons, from our line OF anicauons, iannchin:
ont into uncertainty at the best; on jonrne,
whose projected end only the General In conmaa'
krcws* ~
v7ur AEar
A. for the a:tny, they do no. stop to ask quos
tons.
Sherman says ssCome,' and that IL the entire 70
eituaton s the fact that ths men are hcalthfni an
Jolly men can be, hoping for the bcss, willing
Behind Us We Leave track Of smoke and 0ame
however; Tor the command is that proper detail
ehall be made to destroy al property zhich eli
ever be Of any use to the rebel armtes. Strasgicr
win get into these places, and dwelling houses ar
lcrc:ed to tho ground. In nearly all cases thcs
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