Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-12-06
Rebel News about sherman.


Dispatch Of the I'd says:
A cavalry fght, in which we we're vic
torious, took place In East Georgia on
Tuesday The Yankee cavalry, under
Fitzpatrick, we're attem pting TO cross the
Savannah River, when they were at
tackled by Wheeler, and after an obsii
nate fight they we're driven back in the
direction of Millen, losing very heavily
The same paper also says Sherman's
main army is moving towards the coast,
and battle is expected.
The Richmond Wig Of the I'd says:
IL does not seem that our authorities
have any suspicion Of the effect the
movement of Hood would have 1t
least we Judge so from the vsry feeble
opposition which has, TINS far, been
made to the advance OF Sherman. II is
plain that he is moving TO the coast,
and that so far he has been enabled to
live upon the country. We think it
probable that Sherman will reach the
Atlantic in comparative safety His
next move, in our opinion, will be By
sea 10 Richmond We do not believe be
can take either Augusta or SaAanBah.
Indeed, should he succeed in eaptur-
ing the first named place, it will do him
no good since be viii find there nothing
he was seeking. Al the last named
place he will have to fight, and that he is
very well aware Of, and does not wish
to do so before securing base upon the
seacoas,. Charleston, for the present,
we think, TO be entirely out Of the ques-
ton. Should he determine TO secure
himself on the sea, and from thence issue
during the winter, to ravage the country
and carry on regular winter campaign
he must be kept in, as we suppose be
can In the meantime ne abandons an
immense tract OF country in the interior
over which il is impossible that his
army, situated on the ocean and closely
watched, can exercise any influence for
good or evil
We don't see that Shermans last ex-
| plot will have any effect upon the issue
Of the war. But, after having been told,
| by the highest authority in the Confed.
eracy, that his retreat from Atlanta was
to be more disastrous than the retreat OF
Napoleon from Moscow, its little vex
atious to find him getting off so cheaply
burning and numbering as he goes. The
Richmond Dispatch Of the 2nd says
Seven hundred prisoners have been re
ceived at Augusta, who were captured
while foraging for ShermRn's army.
The Governor has pardoned all the
convicts in the penitentiary, put arms il
their hands, and sent them to the front
except those put in for life, whom b.
could not reprieve according to Law.
Heavy cannonading was heard in tn
direction of Macon, believed to be . bal
tie between Sherman and our forces
A letter in the Augusta ChroHiel
from q member of the Georgia Legisls
ture, giving his experience in eseapin
from Sherman's army, he and other
having been taken across the country
shows the extent Of the desolation il
ficted upon the country. He says, goin
10 McCreddler's place, he found hi
house in ashes, his gin house burned an
every horse and mule gone. There wer
about 100 horses dead. They were ev
dently killed to deprive the planters {
them. Proceeding on, we found ever
; plantation on the road similarly devastl
ted, except that no other houses wer
burned, until we reached the 6he far
!, of the Hon. Josh. Holt. This is a pc
Il feet wreck A large gin house, full
cotton, and other buildings were
smouldeting ruin. His loss was great,
than any other planter in this seelio
Besides the cotton, several thousaT
bushels of corn and potatoes, sever
, hundred bushels of wheat al
much valuable property, with eve
horse and mule and many negroes, a
gone. No farm on the road 10 this plac
- so far as we can learn, towards Atlant
escaped these brutal savages. Th
ravaged the country below here to q
{ / 0conee river. The roads were strev
with the debris of their progress De-
ar horses, cows, sheep, hogs, CHECKER
as corn, wheat, cotton, books, pane
- broken vessels, coffee mills, and fra
ments of nearly every species of pre-
- erty, strew the wayside. In Maids
they burned the depot and one or 4
= warehouses, with the jail and mari
" house They gutted every store a
pluudere1, more or less, everythir
They fired the drug store and seve
Is other houses, and their officers, viii
show of magnsaimity, aided 70 put
:, the flames. Many families have no
=. pound or peck of meal or -four Ma
er. negroes we're entieed away from hon
of Of comfort TO share the uncertain /
,eh tunes of q winter march to the co