Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-11
General snerman,s movement.


The Chicago Tribune of Wednesday,
thus comments Oh the new movement Of
Sherman. 1t says it was appriEei, byu
private dispatch, from atlanta, more than
:. week since, of the new movement, and
thus comments:
Beauregard's entire force in not estima-
ted TO be over forty or fnrtv-five thousand,
and to attend to this the forces under Gen.
Thomas will be found fully adequate. In
deed, already it is intimated that the reb-
els have halted in their advance, or are re-
tiring.
Meanwhile General Sherman with two
hundred miles the start Of Besuregard,
with no enemy In 'front.' and with, as he
expresses it, the whole Southern States
open to him" left Atlanta several days ago
with an army of sEvENTY-FIvE THOUSAND
MEN, will sweep with the irresistible power
of g tornado down into the heart Of Geor-
gia and South Carolina 70 Charleston and
Mobile. He will march in three grand.
columns, or corps darmee, each well pro
vided with artillery and cavalry, wholly
abandoning and probably destroying At
lsnta-destroying the roads and bridges in
his rear,-gathering supplies from the
country, and receiving the fugitives who
will flock to his standard probably BY thous-
ands. In short, for the first time during
the war our armies will have passed
through the she'll Of the rebellion and will
move unoppcsed through the enemy's eoun-
trv. An opportunity will be given to the
Union men, black and white, on his route
Al II ,f Z bo mi
Is believed that Sherman will arrive st his
objective point with reinforcement Of not
less than fifty thousand able bodied men
plucked from the heart Of the enemy's coun-
try. The occupation of the navigable line
of the Savannah River and of the Charles
ton and Savannah, before rear at
tack, would constitute q far more
disastrous blow to the rebellion than
the fall of Richmond. jeff Davis would
in fact be called upon either to abandon
South Carolina and Georgia to their fate
or to attempt to rescue them by the absnd-
onment of Richmond in the face of Grants s
/ largely superior army, 3 dangerous and
probably impracticable undertaking. In
deed It is evident that JEFF. Davis viii have
enough to do 10 save the Richmond army
from annihilation if he ventures TO leave
his strong intrenchmentssst Richmond and
l Petersburg. On the other hand, Beaure-
gard Is already two hundred miles In the
rear of Sherman, and has neither facilities
to overtake him, nor strength TO fight him
when overtaken.
Never during the war has either party
held the other so completely at disadvsnt-
age as Sherman now holds his incsutiouE
and laundering adversary. Of course
there are in the unforeseen possibilities OF
war, contingencies which may turn the
most promising situations into disaster
To all human appearances the game Rp-
pears to be wholly in Sherman's hands.
| Certainly Hood, in uncovering Sherman's
/ front and attacking his communications,
has reserved the policy of General John
ston who is universally accounted a STRAIT
egist far superior TO his successors. So far
from Sherman fearing, or Johnston desir-
ing, such g movement as Beauregard and
Hood have just made, every flank move
ment which Sherman made to Johnston
rear was an invitation TO Johnston TO act
on Shermsn's rear 10 the fullest extent he
might deem desirable Johnston, how
ever, cautiously declined every such in
ducement, preferring TO fall back and keep
constantly in Sherman's front. Either
johnson or Beauregard, therefore, we're
sadly deficient in generslship. fisherman
won Atlanta by the laundering of Hood in
sending merely his cavalry 70 Sherman's
resr il is difficult to see why he should not
| win Charleston and Savannah, now that
Beauregsrd and Hood, in repetition Of the
same blunder on more stupendOus scale,
have sent their whole srny some two hun
| dred miles TO ShermRn's rear, thus uncov-
ering to his victorious legions the whole
prize which the former seek to defend and
| the latter to possess.