The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-14

br;ohteps is it breaks through she, lettering
cloir1s and mounts the zenith. Yours,
- - II. A. NJ. HENDERSON.
a., Shermah, tile Raider.W
From the Wilmington, N. c, Journal, May I'll
Sherman Is great raider. He has hardly
shown himself to Re anything more
But what . terrible raid heeis making in
Northern Georgia { It is true that is all he
can do, but hewilldo that efsctually.
Atlanta is 938 miles from Chattanooga,
the base of Sherman's operations. Should
he even get to the front Of Atlanta, he
must either takeitsb by assault rapidly. or
retreat more rapidly than be did from Me
ridian, Mississippi. He can't sit down to
besiege fortified town, leaving 138 miles
of open country in his rear to be rtraversed
by OUT. cavalry, breaking up his communiea
tons and stopping his supplies, and this be
cannot guard against otherwise than by de
tatching such force to protect his rear as
will leave his main body in advance liable
to be crushed by the concentrated force Of
Johnston'sarmy.5 As for taking Atlanta by
assault. in presence of the forces of john
ston and Polk and in spite Of it's fortiica'
tions-that seems to be out of the question.
He may, and We think will, have to make
retreat much more rapid than his advance,
but unless he is severely punished for his
temerity, he will at least have succeeded
with comparative IMMUNITY in carrying out
an important part of the Yankee programme,
which is to weaken the Confederacy by
rayaginR its country, destroying its property
and running its agriculture. Sherman is war
ring against the crops and labor of the
South. So are all the Yankee generals
Such 10 the spirit of the war they are wag
ing, and such is the tone Of the general in-
structions under which they all act. There
is little difference between the best and the
worst of them. The people in Norfolk find
all the Yankee commanders to be Buffers.
Butlerism is the system, and the original
beast has not retained any monopoly, so
that that sobriquet is no longer a proper
name, confined to him. but is equally appli-
cable and common to any other comman.
der Of an invading force. -E.-.
Prisoners from Lees FrOnt...
Names of the Captured Officers
From the Richmond Examiner, June
Yesterday afternoon 695 privates and
non commissioned officers and IL comm;s-
stoned officers were marched into Richmond
from Gen. Lees front, The privates were
CHARTERED at Crews factory, Main street,
Below Twentieth, and the officers committed
to the Libby. 80
The following are the names Of the off
cers:-Captain D. r. McGibben, l4th U. S.
regulars; Captain Charles O. Dodge, Goth
Michigan; Captain Henry R Kelly, 18th
Pa; Captain Gilbert Petit, l20th N. Y 4;
First. Lieutenant E. s. Huntington, 18th U.
S. regulars; First Lieutenant Charles L.
Noggle I'd U. S. infantry; Second-Lieuten
ant Henry Gibbon, l4Oth N. Y; Second
Lieutenant Sylvester Crossley, One Han-
dred and Fig hteenth Pennsylvania; Second
Lieutenant George M. Curtis, One Hundred
and Fortieth New York; Second Lieuten
ant Hiram E. Wentworth, Fourteenth New
York artillery; Captain W. B. Pease, Seven
teenth United States regulars.
| RELIGION IN THE CONFEDERATE Army
Up to the beginning of the active move
ments, the results Of which are now anxious
ly but hopefully expected, the reports of
chaplains and missionaries and visitors
showed general and actively increasing
interest in religion as prevailing 10 both of
our main armies. Tho course Of this war
will show what has never been so fully ex-
hibited in any army, that soldier who
fears and honors God, and is not ashamed
to be ashamed or afraid of blasphemy, pro
family, RIGHTEOUSNESS and pillage, is none
the less terrible to the enemy. Charleston
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