The New York herald., 1864-12-23
Tho City Closed to the Influ1
Of Refugees.
Casualties in tho 6torming Of
Fort KcAllistor.
Further Particulars Of tho March
"a 'af Through Georgia.

INTERESTING INCIDENTS by the WAY,
as.s &s.. ~
Oar Expsditionary Correspsndeace.
Foar NcAMIsrn, OGxrcHu RIVER, Dec. 10, 1894.
SUPPLEMENTARY.
You have already given your readers detailed
I'VE Of marches skirmishes fcins, &o. performed by
oherman's command from Atlanta 10 the coast but still
shsrs much which has not been recorded that will in
ssrsst the public.
ZEE QUESTION or suPP1lHs CITY,
Ny last letter closed with the capture Of the strong
Acld that stood like lion guarding the entrance TO the
inner waters Of the Ogeschee and the Investment OF the
doomed city. In expressed the opinion that the city
would be held until shsrmans grasp upon had starved
ct the garrison and tho large number Of refugees who
I'D before him and took refuge within the deenoes
Ths belief was grounded upon the reports Of our
scouts and dessrtsrs who agree that the place lily
psovisiousd and unable 70 stand months siege when
sherman u Msa. threatening Augusta, there
- 6avannah but eight thousand Of . garrison With
twenty days rssions ~ that time Ill the roads had
been cut and every avenue for throwing In supplies
ssss except via the Savannah river The Introduction
= Assn thousand troops, who must 10 fed, will 90
far towards hastsAng the time when starvation wiz be
reached. Foster had covered the railway at Coosawha
sAs that trains Of supplies could mot bs
seasA caroliua, and nos At all probable that any
siderable amount entered By water from Augusta
cavalry were constantly Threatening the river.
ZEE CIT cLoenD AGAINST RsvUous
Another fAst eoaarmatory q this supposion ID that
~ authorities a. Savannah In view oe SIEGE closed the
~ shs admission Il negroes, and In some Instances
70 " whitss maA must have considerable influence
- hh family were forced 10 remain outside, while the
nas bad ssDseripssA and placed In the ditchea
O Ne large rice papaticns about the city found
hundreds Of negroes who, whom asked Why their
~ not them or replied that the rebels refused
asv them 70 enter the city, and had guards stationed
- q shs avenues Of entrance. 4
sPsCUlArom UroH yuxuHR
ssns0bd ehsrnaa take Savannah In few weeks. what
vi - his nsxs move - question proposnded IN my
nsaTng tass now, ao1 n 90 nAs , more snsy asked
SAan aoswered, inasmuch ehsrman has conAdants
sataJ1s Of Grant and ths War Department. Nsvsrths-
ss Y one who has studied carefully shsrmans mode Of
making and oosducting war, his path 70 vistery not
Altogether hid from view. Ny individual opinion,
termed upon careful study sf she topography Of she
country, the force 70 bs ms and the results likely
ascrue b that when Savannah falls, - fail must
many weeks the campaign, far fron being At an end,
- Sherman saM when Atlanta collapsed twill have bus
j1ss somnsnced."
1hsuas, the able co-operatsr with Sherman, has
% thoroughly crippled the rash and mpetuous Hood that
to-day he cannot muster twenty-five thousand men,
~ "rob tho cradle and the grave and place their in
habsants the front Lee has not 70 spare;
Brasg thousand strsgslers searching for shsr
man away up river and probably ten thousand
are luxuriating about Charleston and Wilmington Davis
saaAot by . stamp Of his heel command an army to
spring out Of the SOIL Consequently 6hermAns grand
army will not have pittcd against u twenty thousand
men unless Wilmington and Charleston are abandoned.
Win 10 small foroe In his front nothing stands 10 his
way garrison Savannah with thousand Or fifteen
thousand, mako fortress, place hs gunboan on the
river, and, with few hundred marneslatack and cap
sars Augusta, with its foundr,ss and machine shops
laboratories and factories destroy sbs railroads centsrns
there march column to Knoxville and down the
valley into the Of Richmond, laying waste the
ins across Savannah, direct upon Charleston
aad wilmington and enable vesssls-of war to aoat
shrough The rivers tho heart OF the confederacy
What his precise route viii Be no one can safely pre-
AScs bat ID certain that the rebel army cannot obtain
mere mon unless they mpor them and against the pre-
sent force sherman raid II will. In view OF the
whole situation, Il must bs apparent that the death
tAross are upon the rebel sovsrnmeus. few more well
directed blows such sherman has gwen in Georgia
end Thomas In Tennessee, and the end win appear.
IRs QUESTION.
snsrmans march fully exp loded the common
that the rebellion could be starved out that the
Drain upon the white working classes TO oil the armies OF
che oon ederacy would leave the ground untitled, aud
sraparies unified Wherever We moved from Covngtcn
Savannah every plantation was abundantly stocked
the oaaed under the and wheat that the
fall harvest produced Every farm house yard
decorated with sweet potato pits and bins, which
we're very thoroughly cleared out by the in their
search for the "stan Of lfe.n
II the counties through which shcrman's column
passed DO taken basis upon which ground
estimate the Gsorgians have furnished enough subsist
anoe yearly feed Hfty thousand Every planter
Bays tithes TO the government everything raiseda
stipulated amount for every negro his plantation
sworn statements OF the amount produced must be fur
1sished 70 the ofhcer Of the government
mcRoss PURCHASE rUHR OWN CLOTHES.
so heavy the taxes that a plantations the ne
4 Vocs are compesd TO work extra time 10 pay the
snse Of clothing them. On Harris' plantation, near
% visgtop, an old, erAy-headsd African inform.
- ,ns that the hands were worked fourteen
hoursA per day, and sometimes twenty, for .
nonslsz as time. None Of them got moro thso one
soarss sa per year. TO earn which hey must labor two
hours sxara every day In the ysar. They are usually
found vrriby clad, nothing 70 osver their bodies bu.
ragged vAloons and shirt, with patches Representing
iii sbe Co, ys o. the rainbow.
''How DOES " GROW mi"
An o6 cc,wed female one day approached shs oelnmn,
anA entering into Conversation expressed great surprise
n 70 wAsrs wcwR came from.
We iuformedhsr mat old Lincoln had very pro-
ascsivs nsa awayup North, where he raised them -
he rate Of million per year.
Turning up her While eyes In assouishmsnt, she sx
eaimsd:-
"For as LORDS sake, you don't say sol How does he
Wov 'sar'
"oh MAS the reply "it 10 very simple. He gathers
~ all the dad rebels iron NE battle Aslds, plants them
sswn In MasSsehusssh stes while shsy begin 70
QussL ard W Rsnsas snss sss.s sh'ssss shss make