Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-05-21
Knoxville, Saturday, May q, 1864,
The WOrk Goes BraTely On.

Ten udNs, anu sun II lS not uctlQ'u' pUl
enough is known and has transpired to show
that the Federal army viii triumph, The
excitement that has filled the public mind
for the last ten days has not abatcd in its
intensity, All sorts Of rumors have been
ahoat, giving fcvcrish uncertainty to the
excitement, but reliable dispatches from the
Secretary Of War have quoted the public
mind, and q feeling Of confidence every
where prevails,
In Virginia, Lee hnd Lougstreet have op-
posed Grant with the violence Of n set Of
desperadoes, conscious OF ruin and disgrace
and they haye.opposed tho Federal forces
with every man they could collect from
every quarter, Butler, who is good fighter
and an able man, has been opposed by
Beauregard south Of Richmond. with large
r-.v,, bat t,.v- pUast got the bcUUcr Of the
contest, and drove 'thc rebels back upon
Petersburg Butler has the key to Rich
mond in his hands, and is likely to be into
the traitorous city in advance of all others
Sheridan has destroyed the railroads south
of Richmond. taken the outer works around
Richmond, and formed a junction with But
Ter, Everything looks well in that quarter.
Buffers operations on York and James
Rivers have been mastery exploits and he
has outwittcd the rebel General, who no
more expected to hear the sound of Buffers
cavalry bugIes in the streets Of Petersburg
than they did blast from Gabriel's trum-
phet
The opening of the present spring cam
paign in Virginia and Georgia has proven
to be the most stupcndous war movements
which have taken place in modern times
The previous battles Of this war terrible as
they have been, both in the east and the
west have all been oycrmatchcd nay.
thrown in the shade by the gigantic opera
tlons of the present campaign, Nobly have
Grant and shermar, SUSTAINED their former
regulations as officers of coEsummate ability,
and faithfully have they kept the trusts
which the government and the people have
reposcd in them. As the veil is gradually
being lifted from the battlefield, the people
are enabled to catch distant and satisfactory
glimpses Of the grand and soul-moving tao
tics of the campaign. The plans of Grant
Ms they are now being developed are as
grand in their simplicity as they have prov
ed glorious in their results, when carried
out. But both Grant and Sherman have
been most fortunately and ably seconded by
the Generals under their own eyes. We
could name n list Of them, but refrain from
any invidous distinctions Sherman is
backed up in Georgia by such men as
Thomas, Mcpherson, Hooker. Schofeld and
Stoneman, and as fine an army as ever went
into the field They have now been fight
ing for week. and thousands have been
killed and wounded We have taken Dal-
ton, and have, all the time been driving
Johnston and his rebel forces before us, with
fearful loses to them!
The great fighting has been done in vir-
Elllld 'Ihit HIS AuuS dtultNtl Dflllltlt
and decided victories over the flower of the
rebel forces, under commend of the ablest
General in the rebel service, Robert +. Lee
From the South North and East we have
been advancing on Richmond, and there
has been no recoil, though great slaughter
on both sides. Our losses, thus far, are es
timated at $4,000, large portion Of them
being slightly wounded. On the other hand
she rebels have suffered more, and we have
taken twenty thousand Of them prisoners.
destroyed theirsupplies and captured many
of their guns. The rebels have been fight
ing more desperately than they ever did,
and with courage equal to that ofany army
that ever entered the field. But fighting
can save them. They will be either captured
or annihilated. Richmond will be taken
The hardest fighting may yet takc place in
the entertainments around Richmond. The
fortifcations at Richmond are strong, and
the best engineers in the rebel army have
long been engaged in pcriecting them
But Grant will cut OIL all supplies from there
and then he will sit down before the rebel
capital as he did before vicksburg, and
either whip or starve its inuates into sur
render.
Finally, the rebellion is upon its last legs,
and the weakness of the "Confederaey" has
been developed, by the simultaneous ad-
vances that have been made by our armies,
in three great columns which have moved
forward-two of them upon Richmond,
and the other upon Georgia, towards the
rebel territory-all looking alike to the
grand point Of concentration which shall
finally hire the rebellion in Sodth Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama