The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-28
We do not know where Sherman is,

We do not know where Sherman is,
nor do we pretend to know. The Yam
KEGS know all about him, and they make
no mystery Of their knowledge. How
they got it, seeing that he is cut off from
all Geographic communication, we are
not to inquire. We presume, however,
that he has corps Of carrier-pigeons,
drilled for the occasion-knowing birds,
that can distinguish between Yankee
and rebel, and never make the m. Ike
of lighting in a camp Of enemies when
bound for a camp Of friends. To some
such method of communication the know
ledge acquired by the Nashville core
spondent of the Chicago Times, who
dates on the 10th from Nashville, must
be ascribed. He could have obtained it
in no other way, unless he be gifted with
the seesnd sight"
He tells the Times that the design of
moving through Georgia originated With
General Sherman, and that the Secretary
of War approves of it; that he takes
with him the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Six
tecnth and Twentieth corps, ana eight
thousand cavalry-fifty or sixty thou
sand men in all that this force is am
ply sufficient for any purpose-that the
rebels have three thousand men at Sa.
nh ha t,ov Oh
Charleston, besides militia, which he
does not value highly that there are no
others to meet him without weakening
Lee, as Hood could not Overtake him if
he were to try. Besides, the latter has
as much as he can attend to, watching
Thomas. Sherman is to move in two
columns, one by way of Macon, and the
other direct for Augusta, at which latter
place the two will concentrate. Three
points, then, present themselves, all
equally at the mercy of the irresistible
Sherman Savannah, Beaufort and
Charleston. Sherman will select Savan-
nah-the correspondent is certain of it,
and he gives his reasons. Savannah, cut
off from all communication, will be use
less TO the rebels. Charleston can be
cut off by moving down the road to
Branchville, twenty or thirty miles to
the west. Beaufort is already in Yam
kee possession, and there are supplies
and shipping there in any quantity
Circumstances may intervene to change
Sherman's intention; but that he now
means Beaufort is certain. He will not
go there, however, until he has COM
pletely isolated Charleston and Savan-
nah.
The correspondent then points out the
immense advantages of this route Ma
con and Augusta are both manufacturing
towns. jeff. Davis, in his speech at
Macon, said Augusta furnished powder
enough for the whole Confcderacy But
: the chief advantage consists in the de-
struction of communications, whereby it
is expected to isolate the army os Gone
raj Hood, separated as thoroughly from
Lee as the troops west Of the Missis-
sippi are. Savannah will be no longer
valuable as a blockade-running port,
Charleston will be cut off, and Sherman's
army of $4,000 men will be on the sea-
coast, so that they can be transferred to |
Grant or Sheridan, or, after recruiting,
they may be moved through Central
South and North Carolina, utterly
annihilating every railroad by the way,
and thus making Virginia the grave of
the rebellion"
A very splendid programme this, but
not half so splendid as Grants of last
spring There is one element which the
Yankees never take in when they make
paper campaigns. They always sketch
marches in which there is to be no re-
sistance. Now, we should not be sur
prised if they met some resistance in this
march.