Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-11-24

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4 Sever lteenth Corps. 9000
\. twentieth Corps.-. 5000
x .1aYsliy
Total ..47 oCo
Siuns lou
The cavalry are we'll mounted the best horses forery
in this section having been sent them.
Sherman has been chiefly occupying his time in laying
in fun supply Of hard bread and beef cattle, and he
several thousand head Of cattle For all things else he
will depend the country over which be s to pass His
animals can -spbsat we'll Corn and sweet potatoes
sshersd wsgo Corn aso csds sweet
potatoes aud few horses, without sending his foragng
parties than thirty miles from Atlanta He could
nansgs to live for six months without communicating
once th the North In reference to bis cavalry he feels
certain of his ability to obtain horses enough to keep god
his original stock and perhaps he may be able to mount
some more men. .-@
You have heard great deal about the proposed de-
strucion of Atlanta &C. But that ia all 'bosh Sher
man. motto is Remove all obstacles to success permit
no wentop destruction Of life Or property and i is
untenable; hiss destroyed sach buildings could have
been made valuable to the enemy but has harmed no
others. ~ .-N@ 81 -
L "a portion Of the army left Atlanta on the morning Of
the 9h and followed the railroad Macon destroying it
it proceeds; the column will take Miledgevile in its
way and II ia probable that the cavalry Will attempt to
The second column started on Saturday morning last
he 12h and goes direct to Augusta the chief manufac
turing point OF The Contederacy and one ia which nearly
all the powder used By the Southern army is made This
will be reached in about twelve or fourteen days
this point the whole army will concentrate and then
OF three points Sherman shall deem most
proper These are, sav 4nnah Charleston, Beaufort
but know that il nothing occurs to change his present
plans be viii 80 to Beaufort He believes that Savannah
with tie raroads through Georgia cut, will be perfectly
harmless anf there viii be advantage 10 holding it.
The same may be said Of Charleston Let Sherman ad-
Bahchsile twenty thirty miles out and that
place is cut off efectusily '7 at.3
''To capture either savannah or Charleston fortified as
they are would take te though strongly gar
risonsd while the moment the army reaches Beaufort il
meets supplies in abundance aud ships to transfer to any
point II may be made most useful o."' at
"This know to be his plan at present However, il
may become necessary TO make Augusta base and
in that Savannah must be captured bat Sherman
now believes that he easily make one the sea
coast and in the time destroy all the railroads in
Georgia mud South Carolina eectuay as to render
them worthless during the war Un ess therefore,
pectel obstaces met he will reach the ocean Beau
fortfn about thrty-ive or forty days.
Sherman will meet no enemy on the way. The GeOr
a militia are very harmless, and few in number There
are at Savannah about two thousand troops beside city
militia and in other part of Georgia there any
except cgvslry and guerus and these not
No foroe can be spared TO meet him. Thomas take
care Of Hood and Lee do nothing but defend himself
against GraGt and Sheridan. '.t sG ,.- -.a.as
ave shall have no further communications from Sher
shall hear from him through rebel
few days nce he teegrsphed goodbye 10 bis wife
and tod her MOTTO wrts agsm till he reached the
We copy from the Indianapolis Journal Of the 18th In
slant the following paragraphs in confirmation Of the fore
going we'll for the additional information they contain
"A gentleman who left Atlanta Saturday last inform,
that tho delay shernans movements was c,used BY
the payastera payiug the troops which had been on
tirely cont tetei before he left As he came through
Kingston the Fourteenth Corps which s TO brpg up the
Of tie ermy was Just moving out Of that place Gen
Shernas headquarters at Kingston and he eI
pectns 10 accompany the Fourteenth Corps.
"The General had issued an order to his troops telling
them that they about to enter upon important
canpsen and that the couutry through which they were
Tn ms Occ hy That
they expected yubsis CA Of the country and
tke oil horses and mules within their reach There were
many other Items Of interest ing intended move
ments which 1t would not be prudent to publish
"5hermans army consists Of four splendid corps-the
I4th, In cummnd of Geu j. a. Davis; the I6h under o.
tehaus; the I7th under Blar and the Goth under Slo
cum Fifteen rh0usand cavalry, uuder Fitzpatrick, and
bgsde If artillery added, making total force of be-
tween fty thoussud and sixty Thousand men, the whole
perfectly equipped well supplied with war material and
i.abued with much pluck, confidence and good health
compaced n any body Of troops the world
Our intornant le Atlanta upon the train with the
paymssters which was uodersiood TO- belfast train that
would leave thst CITY, and Atlanta before this time pretty
Thoroughly desroyed-that ia all its public buildings
depots manufactures, &C. rendered worthless The rail
rosd' north ard south Of that city and all the surrounding
defensive works have been destroyed There Ia to be
turning back and nothing left behind that might prove
valuable to the enemy"
The Journal adds that Gen George II. Thomas is at
Chattanooga organizing army to attend to Gen. Hood
and reported TO have sufficient troops at command for
offensive movement whenever it ia deemed necessary
Many military men assert that il will be impossible for
Hood 10 eacape South again
In the mean time aomo OF the Journals are discussing
with evdent anxiety The probable success of Gen Sber
man One Of them, presumng that much Of the above
nows a reliable, thus audes to the Indicated routes Of
The respective columns at least as far as Augusta
The Macon column started earliest for il will bs pe
Csssay Tor them 10 make Considerable OF detour Macon
s souheast OF Atlanta seventy Eve miles in direct line
llsdgegls the capital Of GeoTgs miles north
east OF IT, and Augusta lies northeast again from Mieiss