Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-11-01
LEFTER FROM CHATTANOOGA.
sherman and Hoods Case-The Town
1.-The situation.

1.-The situation.
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"Astern chase is a long race So Gen.
Sherman has found it. Hoods leg has
served good purpose in getting himself
out of harms way. For the present his
army is safe. By the latest adTices, which
1 have from signal officers, Captain W. NJ.
AcCFeary and Lieutenant Vim. Reynolds,
who left the front on the 24th, the rebel
army is reported to be at Blue Mountain,
point fifty miles southwest of Rome.
General Sherman was at Galesville, stoWn
twenty-seven miles below Rome, and in
the same direction. When Lieutenant
Reynolds came up, early this morning,
there was gap of four and half miles yet
uncompleted in the railroad, beginning 8
mile and half below Dalton. 1t will be
completed tomorrow. A strong regiment
of rebel cavalry still lowered about Dal-
ton. The Lieutenant, and few others,
while walking across the gap, came sud-
denly upon one of their pickets, who fred
at them. He being the only armed man
among the party, braVely deployed HIM
self skirmisher, and making a circuit
through the woods, came upon their flank,
and by firing off his revolver rapidly,
frightened them OF. 80
The ferceness Of Sherman pursuit. and
the ruggedness of the country, have nee
essarily dragged considerable numbers Of
stragglers out of Hoods columns. They
are not numerous, though, for they are
veterans of many marches, and Hood, OF
course, keeps his best troops in the rear
More fell out at Ships Gap, perhaps, than
at any other point, and our industrious cav.
airy harvested strsgling squads. 1 saw one
thousand seventy odd march yesterday
down Main street, to the appointed board.
pen. The rebels are not suffering for sup
plies The country through which they
have passed is full of corn.
All reports to the contrary, there has
been no lighting of consequence since AL.
atoeHa. The rebels have fed much toe
fast to allow of it. They have sought only
20 get away 5irS
a large force of naVmasiars startad flz,f
days ago Tor the front. Some Of the corps
have heavy srrearages of pay due them.
The trains are crowded daily, conveying
the sick and wounded from the front
northward, in preparation for the arrival
of others from below.
WHAT THE REBELS WILL DO.
That the rebels are expecting General
Sherman speedily to resume the campaign,
and make q bold push for Selma, Mont
gOmery and Mobile, seems now pretty GER
tain, as likewise, that they are preparing
to resist such movement with, all their
force. am well persuaded they will not
take up their front covering these places
from any expectation that we will move
eastward toward Augusta, and for good
reasons. One Of these is that these places
are reported to be the seat of their princi-
pal iron works and ordnance manufactor-
les for the supply of their armies of the
south and west. Another indication point
ing in the same direction is, that as soon
as Hood had crossed the Chattahochie in
his campaign on our rear, and, of course,
b fore ne knew what its result
would be he caused his military
telegraph-ofHces army post-offices, and
other sppurtenances of the army to be
moved from Newman, on the Atlantic &
West Point Railroad, to Blue Mountain.
the place where he now is This was
three weeks in advance. From this it
would appear that he had little hope of
reaching Ohattsnooga when he started,
but proposed, after accomplishing what
mischief ne might upon the railroad south
Of it, to retreat to the point he has now
reached. General Sherman would thus. if
not forced to leave Atlanta, be compelled
to delay considerable time in repairing
the road in order to transport from Chat.
tanoogs his supplies for campaign, while
he Hood would thus gain time for forti-
flying and preparing to advance upon
Selma and Montgomery. BE blasted his
own hopes. By delaying too long at GER
tain knOtty points, such as Allatoona, he
not only failed to destroy enough railroad
to render 1t necessary for US to evacuate
Atlanta from lack of supplies. but he alss,
both badly bruised himself and alloE,aS
General Sherman to get so close upon his
rear-ss 10 give him much trouble,
CHATTANOOGA AS IT Is.
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