Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-12-02

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! Rtser-RedsI Preparations to Resist etc., etc.
NEW YoRk, November 90.
Late rebel papers give additional iriforma.
, ton regarding Sherman's movement. They
show the separate movements Of the respec-
| tive columns under Generals Howard and
Slocum. Both of them, it is admitted by
the rebel papers, are well across the Oconee
river. The report that Miledgeville has been
occupied, is confirmed, and the destruction
of the Charcoal Works and foundrics at
Griswoldyiile. The panic created both in
Georgia and South Carolina By the march Of
the irresistible conqueroT, is something which
has had no paTslfel during the war. A levy
en- nsas.e Of the Georgia and South Carolina
militia has been ordered, and desperate eff
forts we're made to concentrate at Augusta
an army sufficient to present some opposi
ton to Shernan's advancing columns. The
Augusta C0astituticnalist, VI the 22nd, saws:
"A raiding party of the enemy tapped the
road fen miles east of Macon and destroyed
a lumber train. The freight trains were turn
ed back in haste. Heavy cannonadng and
musketry FIRE were heard east of Gordon
1t was supposed General Wayne, at Gordon,
had been attacked Nilledgeville had been
entirely evacuated by our forces before the
enemy entered. Everything Of value WAS
brought away"
The Augusta Dispatch, of the 21st inst,
says: " The movement of Sherman on Mil
ledgevi!lc was feint for the purpose Of con-
centrating our forces there, and the raid on
the Central Railroad was for the purpose of
keeping them there, whilst the whole force
of the enemy moves upon and captures Au
gusta or Savannah"
Tbs Augusta Constitutionalist gives the
progress Of q column under S,ocum. About
] 900 cavalry visited Madison, on the Geor.
gia State Road, and burned it on the 10Th.
On the Goth, an engine sent up the road,
found the enemy at Buck Head, IL miles
nearer Augusta. On the 10th some of our
men were seventy Eve miles from Augusta
probably raiding party.
The Augusta Chronicle, Of the goth, says:
"a large cavalry force left Greenville, s. c.,
bound across the country in the direction Of
Atlanta, with a view to cut of Yankee col.
umn moving down the Georgia road in this
direction. It is said Breckenridge was to
leave upper East Tennessee with his troops,
on the 18th, for the Georgia line. With Hood
in his rear, Breckenridge on his tanks, and
10000 veterans on his front, Sherman cannot
escape"
The Augusta CoAstitutionalist says: L" As
We write, the glad and familiar shouts ofvet
eran troops, Just arriving from the South
Carolina Department, comes up from the
streets. II Sherman's men retreat this way
they will hear the whistle Of bullets from the
trusty guns which have often been pointed
at fanatics on the banks Of the Potomac and
james. Before our readers see this, other
glad shouts will be heard in our streets"
The Macon Confederate Of the Goth, says
General Hardee arrived here this morning.
General Beauregard will probably be here to-
morrow"
Since the date Of the above, communica-
ton with the east has been cut Of by Sher
man, and both Hardee and Beauregsrd are
left far in the rear Of Sherman. Governor
Brown and Dick Taylor and BesuregArd are
reported at Macon on the 22d.
Richmond papers Of the 25th and 26th say
they have encouraging news from Georgia,
but will not print 1t. Still they assure their
readers that the official advices from Georgia
are ss favorable as they could expect.
Latest from sherman.