The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-12-10

,Woon eighty lend one nuDuTeu huieu onr
wounded; che snemy's loss If officially re
,ortsd TO be much greater. Last night 4
,r transporb, loaded with reinfercements
Vers reported going up the Broad river
vhich ,eiyss, assurance that the fight VIII
70 renewed to day.
rHr co OPERATING MovEEENF! WAS AfTIcJ>
70 rarED AND PROVIDED AGAINST a
the Richmond Kxaminsr, Dsss6'zEs=z
A Yankee soldier who, escaped from
short time since, and made his
vay to Chicago, reported there that Foster
md Dahlgrsn were cognizsnt Of Gen. Sher'
mans plans, and would co operate, with
MIN BY landing force at Beaufort to dem
Dnstrate against Charleston abb ut the time
Sherman attacked Savannah. The soldier,
no doubt, stated the truth to some extent,
q We know that Foster and Dahlgren sew
orally attempted last week to cat the rail-
road between Charleston and Savannah at
Grahamsville and coosawhatchie, and were
repulsed.9 They, doubtless, be-
lisyed that Sherman was in the vicinity OF
Savannah at the time they made the dem
onstrations, but it happened, very Fortunate
" for us, that he was some forty miles north
Of Savannah at the time. The movements
of Foster and Dahlgren were anticipated,
and 30 we'll provided against that the enemy
were not only repulsed from the railroad,
but driven back in confusion to Broad river.
sHrRMAn AND HIS cAMpAIN SIGNIFICANT
REVIEW BY JEFF. DAVIS ACCREDITED Or
GAN. -
From tho Richmond Sentinel, Dec. 81
Sherman's campaign, which was dsringly
conceived, has been timidly prosecuted.
Instead of that bold dash into an unarmed
state, which was expected to prove resist
tess by it's impetuosity, and to dispsrse op'
position before it could gather, we have
cautious reconnoissances, timid feints, and
slow movements. The trouble has been
not 90 much to resist or avoid Sherman as
to hnd him. He left Atlanta on the 18th
of October. On the 25th he evacuated
Milledgsville. On the 9th he was CUP
posed to be at Sandersville; distance of
about one hundred and twenty-five milesin
two weeks of, times, since leaving Atlanta,
without any important object gained on
the way. This tardy and unsuccessful
march reveals the difficulties with which
Sherman has found himself confronted
That they were in great measure unex
peeted by him, we are bound to suppose
They have gathered strength, too, by bis
own delays. In his case, caution has proved
the parent of danger. 1t has given us time
to concentrate our means of resistance, and
to obstruct his path with daily increasing
obstacles. Sherman seems to have reali-
zed his peril and to be concerned now only
TO make his escape. The hero has turned
fugitive. Renouncing his anticipated con
quests passing by Macon after . weak and
irresolute attempt at capture, shying from
Augusta altogether, he is solicitous only to
worm his way between, and hasten to the
sea t..r.a ..- Irt..l
Sherman had no purpose when he tarted,
nor has he now, of abandoning his own mil
itary department. The campaign he is on,
is his ewn conception; and no general, put
in charge of great department, has ever
been known to abdicate his position to play
q cond in some other. 1t was not Sher--
mans object to make his way to the At
lantic to assist Meade, leaving Thomas heir
to his far higher honors and responsibilities
in tho West. IF he shall succeed in pence
trating the circle that now surrounds him,
and escaping to Port Royal, his first anxi
ETY., like Kilpatrick's, will be for ships to
take him away. Steam to Annapolis, and
steam to Nashville, if Nashville be not al
ready fallen, will be all too slow to quiet
his impotence and to modify his chagrin
While his own course through Georgia will
have been that of an arrow through the air,
or ship over the sea, leaving no track be-.
hind; while bis exploits and his honors will
have been those of the baftisd fox bounded
from the barn yard, or the disappointed
wolf chased and pelted by the shepherds;
he will return to Tennessee to find Hood,
We trust, in possession of the state. He
will return to find that his campaign into
Georgia, so boastfully entered upon, has but
lost the territories won by his predecessors.
We do not by any means share in the idea
expressed by some, that Sherman's purpose
was to make . Judgment on the Atlantic,
for cooperation with Grant. Nor do We
share in the feeling that such Judgment, if
effected by his present movement, will be q
blow to our fortunes. There has never been
time when Sherman could not have car
ried his army to Grant by shorter and
better route, and in less time than by bis
present road. Two weeks from Atlanta
found him only half way to the coast
Comparatively unimpeded at first, in an
open and 6ru country, with no stream that
could not be forded, he has made the speed
We have stated. The rest of his way will
be through sea of troubles. Swamps, and
marshes, and rivers, and artificial cause>
ways, obstrueted and defended at all points;
his front, his tanks, and his rear, assailed
night and day by large and increasing ar.
mics, he will have to make his road and
fight his way, if he can. Suppose he shall
be successful. Suppose he shall even make
his past speed. Four weeks will have
elapsed from the day when he set out from
Atlanta to that on which he takes refuge at
Beaufort or some other point, with the re-
mains Of his army. How many of bis sol,
diers will have been billed aud captured on
the way, how many will have struggled
and deserted, how many will have broken