Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-12-02
War News.


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/ give additi' nal iutorn.arian regarding ~her
man movements They shnw tbe separate
/ ru"v-lnrn's "f b. respective c,5umus urder
H~nIs Inward and Slorun. B..,h Of thrs,,
II i pdnlftrd l,y he Ten-i p1p,rs are w,st
aer'-s The Ocouee river Tie report tha
Miiledgev.iie has hsen occupied Is confirmed,
arf also The destruc'ioa af h. Charras
( " orkS f,undr-s At Grisgo!iviii-. be
panic created bah Ia Gei.rgia aul South Car
DINA sy BE- march OF be i = sistah.r Co. q1er
or, Is Eomelhi' which has lad no parallel .iu-
ring the A levy en- asse of ibe Geos-
ga aud S'urh C-rnl,ra militia has been or
drre6, and dtspe ATE effnts we're being madz
- concentrate at Augus = an army sufieira'
10 present some opposition to Shernau'z ad-
va0c'ng columns.
The Augusta Cons,itutioralist Of the 22d
ssys:-A raIding parry Of the enemy crossed
he road len miles east Of Macon and destroy
ID number OF trains. Freight trains we're
turned bsck 20 hase.
Heavy cannon ding and musketry firing
vas beard EAST OF Gordon. ard It was suppos-
ID hat Gen. Wayne, at Gordon, had been
attacked.
MHledgevi.le had been entirely evacuated
BY cur forces. ard before the enemy entered
everything Of vaoe was brought away.
The Augusta III, patch, of the 2Ist s8ya:-
The mnvemeur of Sherman on Mil!edgtviii.
frinf, tor the purpose Of concentrating
cur forces there: ard the raid ou the Central
Railroad was for the purpos. oj keepiag them
here, while the whole force OF the enemy
moves upon and captures Augusls ami 5avau-
nah
The Augusta Cons'ilu'iouaIisJ gives The
progress ot u column nrder Gen. Slocum
About 1000 eaval,y visited Madison, % The
Georgia Stare road, aud burned it on The
GO'h On the % an engine sss sent up
The road, and Found the enemy at 3 icksheadl.
IL ni-s nearer Augusta. On ,hv ga. some
Of cur men we're 75 miles from Augusta, prob.
ably raid"e par'y
The Augusta Chronicle. al the % h. says
a large cavalry force LEFT q eepv,lle. :. C..
bound across the cruatry, in the d,eeien of
Atlanta. with a view to cur IF d Ysrkee co:
nmn moving down the Georgia road 10 Ihis Ill
rec ion.
The Augusta Cors' iru;ionaist say: As
we wri'e The glad aud tami.iar shout ni veler-
an troops jpsr srrivirR from south Carolina
depot. cnmss up irum The streets. Il Shrr-
u'an'e men retreat Ibis way they wl hear The +.
whistle Of the buIte-s from the tru-rv guns
which have osen en- pointed al fanatics On
rhe banks Of he Potomac and } mes Br:ore
our readers see his, o'Ler glad ebon's viii b. .
heard in eur streets.
The Myc"n Confederate. Of The 20,h, spys
'i~n uardee arrived here this noroing.- T
Gen B-aureRaid viii pronahy be bere 10
morrow Since The dage of the above com
muuicarion with the const la, been en-, ii bY
sherman. CIV. Brow; Dick 'Taylor aud
Beauregard are reported at Macon on the
2Zd
Richmond papers. Of the 25'h and 26'b
ny they have enc, uIaging news IRON Grurg'a
'nt will not pript il. : Ill they assure Their
I adrrs hat 'be offi .ial advices irnol Georgia
ne as favorable as Eey coud expect
The CONNER cia''s Fortress Monroe cores
,nndent say: It has been known 10 Gen
Grant thar A z. H4's tu!ire rebel Corps
II. brep detached ;rorn LEES army aud s.us
5.u b, prnbably II NEE herman. | pac
a< been taken by tso Divisions OF E4ciy's
ruiy.
WASHINGTON. Nov 3n.-Some of 1he re-.
rnrly exc .onepd prisoners from Savannah
ghn have arrived iere s.are that the peopi.
here iuIinat,d that there we're i"rces uud-r
i@anlegard and Jahuson al Macon ard An
us1s, to oppuse Sherman; buf did not believe (
2 won'd encounter thtm; or that the military
ulhnri jes would decide 10 time where 10 con
enrrate Their iorces. There we're ouly 500
ien at Savannah.
Tie Savannah Republican of be 24.b con
li con'rad ct1ry statements us 10 Snerman's /
'nvem"n's- Il says the coumus opera,irg ,
D tie Geofgia road kept on the 7es,ern sd, Il
nd struck IF in the direct ion Of Macan as
1ongh contemplating Junction wi he Ior
's in hat vicinity. II also states lha; : I
roDg force oi cavalry is lol.oNing Shrru.ap, c
I'D is not impossible thst Forresr nay ere c
harg like woH on his rear aud Ianks.