Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-11-16
Generai shernra -,Iovemsnt.


fsenerai siIerInn ms sEoyemsnt
= The Ghic;, - EfiJEas ot Wednesday
ihgS 1spmm.HfJ$ on tac new, movement
I Ioi Sheraanis 1t SAYS IL was apprise,i
by a,pr.s ~, dispatch from Atlanta
! nsor. tha,t'a w'eeI, since, of the now
movement, aill thus cdmlneut>: =.
4 Beauregard's entire force is moi cs-
y Fti@atod gp 10: OYER forty or rfortytfive
1 Thousand, and 10 attend 10 this, slhe
forces raRder tiehg Il bomas will be
foand fully adequate Indeed, already y
III is estimated that the rebels have
tha4ed ia their advance, or are retir-
ling M CO o. -. ,...sa, - 3D.
+ Meanwhile Genera! Sherman with
1.-TWO hundFei mil..s sthe start OF BeIu.
lregari, -wi'ii ai.s.iienemy in from, and
4't,ir as ne expresses it sthe ich6le
&. ~ StdteS oFsa to him" left At
4iiat.,- yeral days ago with an army
ri sEYENIY-FIvEr THOUSAND MES, will
fswsep with the Irresistible power OF
Ia tornado down into the heart of Geor.
/ gia and Sou.h Carolina to Charleston
and Mobile. He will march in three
grind columns, or corps d'arnce, each
wei provided with. artillery and cav
airy. wholly abandoning and probably
destroying, MISUNDERSTANDING the
roads and bridges innhis- rear, land
receiving the fdgitives who will flock
10 MS standard probably BY thousands.
| In short, for the frst time during the
war our armies viii have passed
through, the shell Of the rebellion a and
will move .anopposei through the on
Femy's country opportunity wilt
be given tOsthe Union men, black k and
white. on his, route to flock to. the1
standard ofsthe Union. tits believed
thai Sherman will arrive at, his object
i've point with aareinforcement of not
less than fifty Thousand abler bodied
men splnclted from the heart Of the en-
emy'si eoH6try. 6rhe occupation Of
the eHhaviFahle fine of the Savannah
Riysf. a6ai, Of The. Cbarleston and Sa.
vanpah, A,siore rear attack, would
constitute q tar {, pIors disastrous blow
to tbe eirsbeliies tbancthe fall of Rich
MONT. rJefflS Davis rwould = in fact DO
called upon aeither' to abandon South
Carolina and Georgia 10 their fate or to
attempt TO rescte them by the aband, |
onment- of Richmond in the face of
Grants largely superior army; dam
gerous and neutrality-suspicious. un.i 1
dertaltiIiga Indeed it Is evident that
JEFF Davis will have enough TO do toll
save the Richmond army from ami.
hilation ifT.he ventures to leave his |
strong ,iatrenehments at Richmond |
and Petersburg. On the other hand, !
Bee lregard s's= already two hundred
miles in the rear Of Sherman, and has
neither facilities to1overtake him, nor /
strength to fight him when oyertaken.
Never daring the. war. has either
party held the others SO completely at
rs Sherman now holds
bis aincautious and laundering adver.
sarge OF course there are in the un.
possibilities'of war, .eontingen-
cies which may turn the most promis-
Jag situations into disaster. To all
human appearances the gamo appears
10 be wholly in Sherman's hands,
Certainly Hood, in uncovering Shers
mars from and d'attacking his commu I
lications, has reversed the policy of
3enerA Johnson who is universally
. strategist far superior to
lis successors. re- So far from Sherman
caring, or johnson desiring,r such a
as Beaaregard and Hood
iaye Just made, every flank r.ovementI
IS Beauregard and Hood have Just
made, Sherman madeto ] Johnston'srear
yas,an insitation-ato johnson to act ,
N sherman rear to tho fullest ex-
ent he might deem desirable John
on, however, cautiously declined ev-
ry such indncemen prefet ring to fall
,ack. and keep constantly in Sher-
mans front. Either Johnson or Beau ,
ogard, therefore, were sadly deficient
u generaiship. If Sherman won At
anita by the blundering of Hood in
endi1g merely his cavalry to Sher-
mans rear, it is difficult to see why11' !
Ie should not win Charleston and Sa=
yannab, now that Beauregard and
Hood, in fepetitionofs the same blum
Ter on more stupehdous scale, have
ent their whole army some two hum
red miles, to Sherman's rear, thus un- :
overiDg to bis victorious legions, the
whole prize swhichlthe former seek to
efcnd and theslatter TO possess.ssi -
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