The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-21
GEN. sRERMAN'S MARCH.
REkUREcARD AND HOOD
ouTWITTED.
Sixty Thousand Troops En- Route for
the Atlantic Coast,
THEIR DESTINATION sAvAN-
NAH OR CHARLESTON.

They will visit Macon, MIIclGeviiio,
and AugustR--City of Atlanta Destroyed
-TOtaI Destruction Of the Railroad
Between Atlanta and Augusta-IVersOn
AttRchs the Twentieth Corps and IL
Repulsed.
| WA,H1NG1oN, November 20-It is not con-
traband now to state that it is known General
Sherman will touch at Macon. lie has five corps
of veteran infsntry-the 2ith and 20th of the
Army ofthe Cumberland aud the 18th, 10Th, and
18th of the Army of the Tennessee, consisting in
all of over $4,000 men. He has 5000 picked
cavalry, under Fitzpatrick, and has thirty days
rations for man and beast. He goes finely
equipped in every particular.
His scout system and courier line is so complete
as TO guard against the possibility even OF failure
! The country through which he goes is abun-
dainty supplied with meats and bread, and is
sandy country, traversed by but few streams II
it rains a week on a stretch, it dries up or soaks
down into the clay IN a few hours.
After arriving at Macon he will probably go TO
! Miedgeville, where he will divide his army
sending part TO Savannah and part TO Augusta.
/ He will fOrLty the latter place and after receiy-
| ing supplies up the Savannah river, he viii be
able 10 move on Columbia 1r Charleston. The
programme, II carried ont successfully, COM
| pletely demoshes the railroad system Of the
tate of Georgia.
The Western and Atlantic, running from Chat
| tanooga to Atlanta, one hundred and thirty eight
! miles, is almost totally destroyed. IL will take
.year TO rebuild ii. with no Inconvenience in OBJ
flaming iron. The Georgia railroad "a State in
stution, as is also the Western and Atlantic,
| and to which the Confederacy is indebted many
millions of dollsrs), running from Atlanta to
Augusta, one hundred and seventy-One miles, is
destroyed from Atlanta to Coyington, forty ono
miles. The occupation Of Augusta will add to is
! destruction.
The Macon and Western railroad, running from
Atlanta TO Macon, lO3 miles, is entirely destroyed.
The Georgia Central railroad, running from
Macon 10 Savannah, is 1911 miles, and this will no
doubt receive Shermans attention in a few days
From Augusta TO Charleston is 1877 miles. From
Augusta to Columbia, South Carolina, is l4l by
rail. Most all the manufactures for shot, shell,
fixed ammunition, and cannon are at Macoa'
Augusta, and Columbia. Half the powder the
Rebels use ls made near Augusta
If Beauregard attempts 10 intercept Sherman,
or follow him, he must send his entire army. with
all il paraphGTnaiR, by rail from COrnth 10 Mcri-
dian. 1t must then march from Meridian to
Montgomery, distance OF about 200 miles, with
only q short piece of railroad, with no means of
tTansportation, running from UniOntown 10
Selma. BY the time Beauregard reaches Macon
Sherman would be ont of his reach.
Thomas is watching G. T. T. b., aud IS being
heavily reinforced with new troops. In week
from now Thomas army will have 10000 men,
tesices A. j. Smith, who is cooperating with an
army Of observation.
Details Of the Movement.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, November 10 To the
country at large the mystery and secresy when
have enveoped the situation OF ShermnS army,
especially after the affair in the valley south Of
Lookout Mountain, at which place our advance
/ was actually crowded upon the enemy's rear
4 have given rise to grave mlsapprehenSi ms. AFTER
i the affair in the valley, although myself anC
others, / suppose, traced up Beanrcsmd's army
e and gave SKI tches of his operations ell througt
9 Northern Alabama, we maintained an unklnt
a silence in regard 10 Union movements.
The Rebel Army of tennessee, under the guild
n auce Of its OLD c"mmanuer u,Sneu lnroust
Vt Northern alabama without impeachment or par
= suit Losing sight OF Sherman, who had been 81
s. rapidly pursuing IT'S rear, the people natural,
', consoied themselves with the impression that
,e trap was being projected. and that but s1or
ls time must elapge before the announcements Of ~
overwhelming defeat OF BE .uregaTd's army wou
I, be made public "
Is But the American people are queer--esDecalt
:; in war times They could see Bcaureglrd's arm
II quietly located ~ Florence, Alabama, TOW
Of which fell iplU possession nearly three year
ago; they could sec Dick Ta7 l1rs forces 40 81
q. Bear creek, actiug as an army or DoNerVlt on
- al they could hear the guns Of Forrest thnndci
a ~ ing away ut JOhHS0nY lille, u small Town Only
~ miles distant from the State capital Of renuesss
But they could hear nothing pf the redoabtAbl
ia Ihcir high homes and sanguine anticipation
h- were turned anxiety, and their anxiety 10 mi
ar. aupr,honsiun7 and Rief ana IN ,ienoe they que
,at toned, "WheTe Is sherman, and what is i
ioT dong' A. IL is now no longer q secret, ] vi
WhrE General Sherman transmitted the lo
patch 10 Secretary stanton, IN Wblch ne sgttr
his troops required resi- he told the truth; bl
he did not mean 70 give them taste OF 10
ny Albania. sherman does not believe in resting h
re- army q Nea. while ut lime. Nhi.e purau, 70
Hood ddnr he telegraph 10 Stanton TO the eff
that his army was in motion, adding t1N 1t vi
better for the men than lying IN camp
Had eGuregard's army confronted Sherma
instead of making its ridiculous and unmilitu
wild goose cLA,e, the ''resJ' which the later n
promised TO bis victorious army, woulh nav
ceased TO exist before this. Long before the ia
Of Of Atlanta General sherman remarked man
times that the Gate City WAS not the objectl'
point. | never learned that he named any pa
Ivy ticuar place in the Southern COntederacy as b
Ids, objective point, but the impression became I'll
IA early in July last that it was not Atlanta.
am Immediately after the fall of Atlanta, and VIII
igh Hoods army, in u state Of semi-demoal2atio
% lowered around our front, was informed upC
A. good authority that there would ne aWlnter can
q, paign. And really, had not the barriers bee
ew' removed by the Withdrawal OF the Rebel Army
sie Tennessee, General sherman would have mac
IAN an attempt at least, TO have forced himself aero
~ the Cotton States. This was the programm
6oS, ! This is the programme-and more than six
Nc thousand national troops are already marchI
Nc through Georgia.
Ia General Sherman, you will recolect, pursue
my the columns of Beauregard quite up 20 the Al
IF bama State line. The latter with all pOsSib
nd speed az this juncture, hurried his sorely press
ing troops west, as il the Prince of Evil Spirits we
S. In his rear with sharp stick. This was good 4
VI Sherman, but bad for "Toutant."
WIS., Almost simultaneously General Sherman Urg
dai his army east, with, Of course, some grand pr
PG iect in view, and in eight days subsequently hi
el, his army upon the railroad between Kingston al
20 Rome with headquarters at the former pla'
'nn situated upon the Georgia railroad. about midw
lso between the Tennessee and Chattahoochee riYei
This was first rate for Sherman, but mighty b
for "Parley-vous."
b, Here, al Kingston. preparations were INN
ish diately made for the coming campaign. I
first information received concerning the NOV
ments about TO be developed confused me.
Il learned one day that orders had been Issued
-n % the 2Oth COrps which had been left at Allan
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