Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-12-22
THE GRAND CAMPAIGN.

THE GRAND CAMPAIGN.
We publish in this weeks CHRoNI-
Gle pretty full details OF the great vic
tories won by Gen. THOMAS and his
gallant army on Thursday and Friday,
in the neighborhood Of Nashville; and
also Of Gen. SHERMAN's operations in
the vicinity of Savannah
We regard this news as the most i'm
portant we have received since that
glorious July morning when the light
ming brought to us the news of the fall
VicKsBuRo and the great battle Of
GETTYSBURG. And then it has been
achieved with 80 small loss of life to
the Union army! God bless old "PAr
THoM rs" and his brave battalions!
1t will be seen by the dispatches that
our old 18th captured an entire Rebel
battery. Col. AsKEw was slightly
wounded. A dispatch to Capt. Dubois,
now here, states that the regiment lost
thirty men. Capt. HANSON and Lieut..
RoDAc were killed. Tho companies
from this County are all right.
The N. Y. Tribune of Saturday has
a stirring editorial on the campaign,
which we adopt in lieu Of anything we
might say Of it. The Tribune says:
VICTORIES from every point of the
compass-nothing but victories this
glorious morning. From Tennessee,
from Georgia, from Mississippi, from
Virginia-from all quarters where the
brave soldiers of the Union are de-
Tending the Flag of the Republic, laurel
cd Victory sits upon their swords and
smooth success is strewed before their
feet. THOMAS has beaten Hoop-the
besieged defeating the besieger; SHER-
MAN has taken Fort McAllister, and
brushed from his path the last obstacle
between him and the sea; CANBY in
Mississippi has fallen on the communi.
cations Of the Rebel army that threat
ened Nashville, and has destroyed
them; SToNrMAS and BURBRIDGE in
West Virginia have struck the rear of
BRECKINRrDoa, and have cut off at once
his line Of supply and his line Of re-
treat. From one end of the line to the
other, it is whirlwind of victories!
"Fort McAllister will be remember
ed as the formidable earthwork that last
year for months defled the efforts of the
monitors Wsehawken and Passaic.--
Originally built to guard the passage
to Savannah from tho sea, 1t guarded
equally in this emergency the approach
OF SHRRAAN to the feet which brought
him re endorsements and supplies. 1t
was the one defense which protected
Ossabaw Sound; the point we have in
dicated as the probable end of SHRR-
MANS march; and upon this priced
safeguard of Savannah SHERMAN has
fallen with the suddenness and force Of
q thunderbolt, and has carried 1t by an
irresistible coup de main. 1t Is one Of
the keys to Savannah, which the genius
and courage Of SHERMAN have made to
unlock-instead OF closing the avenues
TO that stronghold of the Rebels.
. We do at all events know that Gen.
SHERMAN 10 absolute master of the sit
uAtion in Georgia
"The dispatches from Gen. THOMAS
at Nashville are Of the same joyous
tenor as those which from Gen. SHKR-
MAN thrill the country with anticipa.
lions Of complete and final victory over
the Rebellion. Abandoning the de-
fsnsivs. Gen. TnoHAs has resorted at
last TO the strategy OF attack; pene-
trating at the right moment the fatal
mistake Of HOOP In converting cam
paign, which Was strategically offensive,
into tactical defensive. The elabo-
rate esrthworks Of the Rebel command
or, which were meant to environ Nash
vile. have failed even TO protect him
sgainst ths rs6ibutivs onslaught Of the