The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-12-01

v&Srs 6jkpW troops ought to DO concen'
trSSsd ftemsS, ct Richmond and AusHsia.
| 6sok kfSs& Has AN rrEios KsoxviLIx,
II , ikenridge has anything ike nd
IT - however, be- will be much
E1fe NkSly 70 attempt the capture q
Khoxyilla-s III the administration dependa
on GilIem 70 defend that plan although
0ifism IL man after Mr.. Lincoln's own
Elsartl ws :msy Expect to- hear of its cap
tturs Ut any day. Its capture would secure
tho permanent respcssessinn of East Ten
nessss by the confsderates, and the latter
syeut would entirely neutralize Sherman's
attempt to eut the cenfederacy in two, by
aarchipe to Savannah. 4 1861
u1MPoRrAHT NEWS FROM EARLr's ARMY.
have Q few ems of late news from the
Shenandosh valley to day, which are Of con.
! siderable importance, in view Of what ID
!. going on in other parts Of the confederacy
Your readers will see that these facts give
them the key TO the various rumors, about
| the rebel General Early and bis forces, which
| have been circulated quite extensively late
| ", such q that he had been reinforced to
Ethe extent Of 5000 men that he was
marching on sLynehburg; and that he was
marching to intercept Gen. Sherman, etc
They shov also, the vast recuperative pow
or Of the confederacy, and how idle it is to
suppose that the military strength OF the
rebellion is anywhere near the point Of
exhaustion.
IMPROVEMENTS FOR LEE AND EARLY AR"
49, RIVE AT RICHMOND.
4 From the lst to the 18th Of October, q
very large number of new recruits arrived
ct Richmond. They were chiefly men who
had never been in the army before in any
capacity. But there were among them
many Young men who had been employed
for some months past, in Independent COM
tpanies, IN guarding railroads and bridges, in
doing garrison duty, and in other ca
pacities in which they had become proficient
| in the school of the soldiers All the men
were of the proper military age, and all
were strong and healthy. There were in
al some twenty-five or thirty thousand Of
them, and they came from five or six diff
| fsrent States. Eight thousand Of them were
sent to Gen. Early between the 10th and
Both of October; the balance were sent to
General Lee at Petersburg. -
REORGANIZATION OF EARLY's ARMY.
This was a great help to General Early
after the reverse that he had suffered on
tho 10th of October. 1t gave him the
means at once of filing up his old infantry
1 regiments TO the full compliment, and this
he did. Arms were supplied to such Of
the soldiers as needed them. His artillery
Wis feorganized by the addition Of ebout a
| dozen new pieces, 80 that he has now eight
batteries of six guns each. New shoes, and
. in some cases new clothing, and some blan-
kets, were sent to the men. The strictest
discipline was enforced, and by the 18th Of
the present month, Early's army was in q
highly efficient condition, and it emil ICED
about twenty eight thousand men t all
arms; slthe ugh this included some j.. open.
dent regimental organizations which, .previ.
ouslyi had not been under Early's .mmedi-
ate command.
DISPATCHES FROM BEAUREGARD ABOUT SHEER
.rs a.., MANS MOVEMENTS.
For some days previously, dispatches had
been received at Richmond from General
Beauregard. at Corinth, in regard to the in>
itisl movements of General Sherman's pres
ent expedition, which were then in progress,
and which were closely watched by the
former. Some of these dispatches we're OF
such importance that they were not trusted
to the telegraph, but we're brought by aids.
de-camp, direct to Richmond. Thus it was
that when Sherman began bis march from
Atlanta to Macon, on the 18th or 18th inst,
the confederate military leaders were fully
prepared for the movement, and had made
what they supposed to be adequate prepa-
ratiops to battle and defeat it. These prep
arstionr included of course the concentra-
ton, at Macon or Augusta, of whatever be-.
dies of troops could be spared from other
points, besides those that would be brought
thither by General Beauregard. Among
these bodies of troops were some from
Charleston and Savannah, some from Flori-
d., and some from Richmond and Peters
burg. '.s."
CONSEQUENCES OF LINcoLN's DETERMINATION
+" TO BE RE ELECTED.
These troops were accordingly sent and
% Mscon is easily accessible by railroad
from all parts of the confederacy, they
were sent without any difficulty. There
was at this time no ground of appreben-
sion that General Grant wonld make any
demonstration against the lines of Peters
burg and Richmond The repulse which
our army had met with on the 9th of Oc-
tober, was Of too recent occurrence, and
had been too decisive in its nature, to ex.
pect . renewal Of anything of the kind
very soon. Besides considerable portion
Of General Grants army was absent How
large portion this was, was pretty ac>
curatsly known to General Lee from the
usual means at his command ; and the &C
curscy Of his information was confirmed
by the intensely loyal newspapers of Bal
timore and New York, who informed him
that 1900 of General Grants soldiers
had passed over the railroads between
Warrington and Philadelphia to vote in
Pennsylvania and New York and that
several regiments from the Tenth and
Eighteenth corps, under General Butler,
had arrived in New York BY sea. Finally,