Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-06
8g GelegraH8.
Afternoon Report.
General sherman's March from q
Rebel Point Of VieY.


NEW YoRK, Dec. 6.-The Richmond Dis.
patch of December I'd says;
ga cavalry fight, in which we were VIC
torious, took place in East Georgia on
TUESDAY. The Yankee cavalry, under Kill
patrick, were attempting to Cross the
Savannah river, when they were attacked
by Wheeler. and, after an obstinate fight,
driven back in the direction of MilIen,
losing very heavily"
The Richmond Dispatch of the I'd also
"sherman's main army is moving toward
the coast and battle is expected"
The Richmond Wing of December I'd
says: =,
have any suspicion of the effect the move
ment of Hood would have, at least we
Judge 30 from the very feeble opposition
which has thus far been made to the ad.
vance of Sherman. 1t is plain that he IS
moving to the coast, and that SO tar ne
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 to Richmond. We do not believe he
can succeed in taking either Augusta or
Savannah. Indeed, should he succeed IN
capturing the first named place 1t will do
him no good, siuGe he will find nothing he
IL seeking. At the last named he will
have to light, and that he is very well
aware of and does not wish to do before
securing base upon the sea. Charleston,
for the present at least, we think TO be en-
tirely out of the question. Should he de.
termiue to secure himself on the sea and
thence issue during the winter to raVage
the country or carry on regular winter
campaign he must be kept in, as we sup
pose he cam
tIn the meantime, he abandons an i'm
mense tract of country in the interior over
which it is impossible that his army
situated ON the ocean and closely watched
can exereise any influence for good or evil.
We do not see that Sherman's last exploit
will have any effect upon the issue OF the
war, but after having been told by the
highest authority in the ContederacyI that
his retreat from Atlanta was to be more
disastrous than the retreat of Napoleon
from Moscow, it is q little vexstious TO
find him getting off SO cheaply, burning and
mRrauding as he goes"
From the Richmond Dispatch Of the I'd,
we learn that seven hundred prisoners
have been received at Augusta, who were
captured while foraging for Sherman's ar
nv, The Governor has pardoned oil the
convicts in the penitentiary, put arms In
their hands and sent them to the front ex.
cent those put in for life, whom he could
not reprieve according to law heavy
was heard all yesterday p. m.
in the direction of Macon, believed to De
q battle between Sherman and our forces.
A letter in the Augusta Chronicle from
q member of the Georgia legislature, giving
his experience in escaping from Sherman's
army. he and others having been taken
acrcss the country, shows the extent OF the
inflicted on this country.
He says: "Going to McOreddles place
we found his fine house in ashes and his
gin house burned and every horse and
mnle rome. In his lot were about 100
beeyes living dead. They looked like good
stock and were evidently killed to deprive
he nIantesa of them. Proceeding on, We
fonnd eTery plantation ON the road SINH
ANY devastated, except that no other
dwelling houses were burned, until we
reached the fne farm of Hon. Joshua Hill.
This is a perfect wreck. A large GIN mouse
full of cotton, corn cribs, dwellings, all
ruin. His loss was greater
than that of any planter In thus secEon.-
Beaides the cotton, several thousand bush.
ala of corn, potatoes, several hundred
bushels of wheat and much other valuable
property, with every horse and mule and
many negroes are gone. No farm on the
road to this place and as far IS We can
hear toward Atlanta, has escaped their
brutal ravages. They ravaged the country
below here to the OConee river. The roads
were strewn with the debris Of their pro-
gress. Dead horses, cows, sheep. hogs
chickens, corn, wheat, cotton, books, pa
per, broken vessels, coffee mills, and .frag'
ments of nearly every species property
was streWn on the way side.
HIn Madison they burned the depot and
one or two old warehouses, with the jail
and market house. They Quilted every
thing and plundeFed more or less in every
lot. They fred the drug store and several
other buildings, and their officers, with
show of maguanimity, tried to put out the
flames. Many families have not a pound
of meat or peck Of meal or -four. Many
negroes were enticed away from their
homes of comfort to share the uncertain
fortunes of winter march to the coast,
aud then forced to starVe. Families OF
wealth have not house servant left, and
those who were the most trusted were
often the first to leave"