The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1864-11-23
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ington special says it is not oontraband
now to Stato that Sherman will touch at
Macon. lie has the 2Itll. goth, l5tl. lfth.
and 18th Corps, making over $4,000 men,
beside 6.000 picked cavalry tindor Kilpat.
rick, with ations for 30 days for man and
beast His scout system and courier line
is complete. After auivng at Macon prob
ably he will go to Milledgvile, whore he
will divide his army, sending part to An.
gusta, and part 10 Savannah. At Augusta
he will fortify aud receive supplies up the
Savannah River, so as to move on 0olum-
bia or Charleston.
This programme will destroy the Rail-
road system Of Georgia; also al the manu-
factories for shot, shell and fused ammun.
ition, and it is impossible for Beauregard
to intercept Sherman.
A steamer which left New Orleans ON
the'aftsrnoon of the 18th. brings the intel.
ligenoe that General Cahhy died at noon
on that day. A dispatch to the same effect
has been received at Morgauza. We fear
that the report is true. General Edward
Rich Sprigg Candy was boru in Kentucky
in 1916; graduated at West Point in 1899 /;
distinguished himself in the Mexican War
and served in A. S. Johnston's Utah Expe-
dition in lS5960. When the rebellion
skilllully defended the Territory against the
rebels. In March. 1862, he was made
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and later
was promoted to Major. Generalship and
to the command of the Department of
Louisiana, where he received tho wound
which is stated. to have occasioned his
! death.
Gen. Curtis teiegraphei from .ITead-
quarters of the Army of the Border" No
vember Sth: We have just concluded the
pursuit OF Price, whose rear guard crossed
the Arkansas river, under fire of our guns.
lie lett another of his guns and his own
carriage, which with other arms and euuip-
ments have fallen into onr hands. We are
now rid of 10000 or 10000 half starved
bushwhackers and half starved vagabonds,
who hope may never return to disturb
the peaceful inhabitants north of the Ar
kansas river. He is also beyond our posts
OF Fayetteville, Fort Smith and Fort Gibson,
which are now safe.
Tho Hsralds Hilton Head correspondent
says all the rebel prisoners taken down
from Fort Monroe, by Colonel milford
were the first to be transferred to the au-
thorties of Savannah, which would be
concluded by Thursday of this week when
Colonel Mulford was to commence receiv.
ing released Union prisoners, in all about
10000. 1t is understood negotiations are
in progress for the exchange of large
number on the Mississippi.
The Herdlds Shenandoah correspondent
says the main portion Of Early's army was
in the vicinity of Woodstock, in wretched
condition and much discontented. When
Early made his advance last Saturday. he
thought Sheridan had been weakened, but
on learning his mistake, he beat hasty re-
treat. Early's retreat is regarded as an
abandonment of the lower part of the Val
ley.
NEW YoRK, Nov. 19th.-The Heralds
Hilton Head correspondents under date Of
the 10th, says: "Just as the steamer Fulton
was about to sail from this place on Tues.
aay last. a report camo down the river that
Sherman was marching on Savannah, and
that the inhabitants of the city were Aeeing
In dismay"
The latest rebel accounts from Hood say
he is in position to march into either
Middle or West Tennessee, rs he may de.
c'de. They admit that the rumor of tho
capture from the Union forces of Decatur.
aia,' a was hoax, stating that the attack on
tIlat phtce was merely a ruse to enable
Hood to get his army trains we'll past it.
New York, Nov. 19-Gen. Corse. the
uhion commander at Rome, Ga, on the
lotn, destroyed such bridges there as
cou'u oe OF use to the enemy, and abandon
ed the place for the purpose of withdraw.
ing to some more important point.
Recruiting is being revived in MANY of
tne Eastern towns and cities. In New
ork about 100 men arc enlisted weekly.
IN Philadelphia, on Thursday, sixty-two.
hity seven OF whom were three years vol |
uhteerS. We're paid their bounties.
Rebel sympathizors at Nashville are
gloomy, in consequence of anticipated re-
suits OF Sherman's movements. Accessions
North.
Some 600 rebel prisoners arrived at
Nashville On Saturday morning from At
ushed IN to pillage and plunder, and were
captured.
The Richmond Sentinel says that in yir.
,Inla new movements arc on foot. and. in
ieorgia and Tennessee vast campaigns. h
ingnlarly complicated, are in process of
Ievelopement
The PRESIDENT raised the blockade of the
orts OF Norfolk, Va. and Fernandina and A
ensacola, Fla, and declared them open to
il trade, not contraband of war, after De-
ember lst.
NJ u.J~ EEgJ .TfHuv3
Eight Union officers arrived at Hilton
lead on Monday last, having escaped from
le rebels. They confirm the worst of
revions accounts of inhuman treatment.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 2O.-Gen. Gillem is
lfe at Knoxville with his command in the
ltposts. His loss in killed, wounded and
llssing will not exceed 400 men.
Hood and Bcauregard are still in the vi {
nifty of Florence. +