Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1864-10-12
A sweep Of the Field.

Tie dark cloud lifts, and broad ssresks of
light be Gin to umine its ,ombrs outline. October
opens brightly for the Confederate cnuse. In
the neishborhood Of Richmond ahd Petersburg
,he:e has been more fghting-hot and heavy at
Petersburg. Grant lost in these engagements
100 prisoncrs and had his mon slaughtered as
they were never slaughtered before except at
:spottsylyania Court House,, What aignif.s his
getting new men, If they are disposed of at this
rate? IT hi. veterans could mob stand it in May,
June and July, how will his raw recruits be able
to face the lnueic now2 And again, on Friday
last, thore was heavy fighting below Richmcnd,
on the North oI tie James, Cor tie pofacssion of
P,,t Harrison, which the Yarkees bad captured
= few days before it is reported that NC rctosk
thi. mork-with large number of prisoners
and guns. In ihe shcbandoah Valley, the wheel
of fortune has made another of its sudden and
oaprieious revolutions.
"For twists and turns and sptculstions,
Uvl und downs aud nlteratinhs,
This surely seems 10 be theage,
andschanees now a,s ,Al ,:ltsYase
The latsly victorious Sheridan, whose brilliant
sueossseY eY brought d"wn gold in Fankeelnnato to
200 is in fell rctrca, tuwardsEthe Potomac, fol.
lowed by Early, who has been reinforced ty one
Of the bss. DiTisi.ns in Virginia This is glori-
news, as it ends tho "on TO tynchburs@ for this
campaign. And Grant will have TO fight his big
battle as Richmond without theFco. operation of
Sheridan from Lyuchburg. And there is sher-
man, whose army draws its hfe:blood through an
attenuated artery of railroad ofspnc hundred anc
twenty miles-countipg only from Chattanooga,
not from Nashville. This ia the slender tlrcad
BIZ which its life hangs. Cut itsor month, and
he muls fght, rup, or starre. II is cut. Hoop
an his veterans ut last accounts were astride Of
this railway thirty. three miles ip shsrmans rear.
WassLEE had captured Rome, with three thou
ssad valiant negro wsrriorsSSf fwhile FORnEsr,
whose Vim seems to iucrsass,5 xas operating in
tas mos, telling mapn.r al.ngsle railroad lines
in Tennessce. Abraham, LDtoln's ears will coon
DO shocked by the sound Of tho rebel war cry
along the banks If the Otto: In the meantime
Old Dad Price" has redeemed his rrcmiss' to
the Missouriuns of Leading them back to their
| own loved State. lie has entered Missouri with
sc, 600 men, and We all know What to expect Of
Gen. Price. He will iibcra.o Missouri, ard con-
tribute splendidly to the electihh of McCLELLAS
Nor does the gallant and restless Nar.noduke
the comnandc. Of cavalry in Tho Trans Missis
sippi al ow tho Yankees any rrst nlOng the Mis-
sissippi aad Atkansas rivers; he harras es and
discomtity hem by night and day. We have de.
cideily touched bottom in Georgia, in tie Valley
| Of Virginia, .2nd in the Trans-Mis.issippi Dc
partment; aud the important event for the re
maind CT. of the campaign is Gfnnt's forthcoming
attempt ON Richmond. 1t eilI Tbe another tria
octwcen bis army aud the ono which, for more
than four months, has bafied all bis eaurts, AM
which, in more than three years, has never beer