The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-24
LATER FR0lK THE NORTH.


the 2lst instant.
sHERaAS's OPERATIONS IN oEoRoIA-uIs ROUTE
AND PLAN.
The news from Sherman's army is very meagre.-
Washington speculative dispatch of the 2Oth thinks
Sherman has gone to Milledgevlle to give the Geor
gia Legislature opportunity of freely express
ing its opinion" A telegram from Buffalo, New
York, says:
BrigadierGe Barry, Sherman chief of artil-
lery, arrived here yesterday, seriously ILL., lie LETT
General Sherman at Kingston, Georgia. at A. NJ.
the 18th. General Barry says that Sherman has
all the infantry, cavalry and artillery he wants
The men had received eight months pay, and outfit
especially adapted to hard and rapid winters cam
paign; and the morale of the troops unequalled
giving promise of efficiency and vigor. General
Sherman. he says will carry his army triumphantly
through the work before it.
On Monday night last, Hoods entire forces, inclu-
ding Forests cavalry, were in the immediate neigh
borhood Of Tuscumbia and Florence, Alabama,
watched by the troops under General Thomas, of
such strength wilrrender the invasion of Tennes
see impossible, and even the withdrawal of the
enemy, for service elsewhere, an operation of ex-
treme difficulty.
CINCINNATI November 20-The Gazette's Mem
phis dispatch says that military affairs un-
changed and comparatively quiet. The rain con-
tinues and the roads are in bad condition. Hood
and Beauregard still in the vicinity OF Florence.
Nine hundred rebel prisoners arrived at Nashville
on Saturday morning from Atlanta. 1t appears
that thinking the place evacuated they rushed in
to pillage and plumber, and Were captured
The rebel sympathlZers at Nashville are gloomy
and disconsolate in consequence OF the anticipated
result of Sherman's movements. Accessions to the
National arms arriving daily from the North.
The Nashville correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial accepts the fact that Savannah is Sher
mans objective point. and says:
This march through Georgia will develop new
principle in our warfare The enemy have drawn
comfort bocaIISp
lines of communication already far ex-
tended a large army could not be supplied any fur
ther In the interior. But this bold cutting loose
from all lines to the rear this marching forth with
out any of the long trains that always cucumber
army and hamper its progress this bold trust in the
country to give up its stores OF food dispel all these
OF safety, and demonstrate that even the
remoteSt corners OF the Confederacy open to our
conquering armies. This proof of vulnerablity
may open a new light upon the uncompromsing,
because, supposed to be safe, people may persuade
even these "last-ditch" men that there is no hope
for them, that determination is only question of
time, and net Of possibility.
Those who have fled from the ayenging hosts of
freedom, from far Oft Kentucky and Tennessee, and
who have settled themselves down to quiet on the
shores of the Atlantic will find that there the
starry banner is to come, borne aloft by the same
hands who planted it on the ramparts of Donelson,
high above the clouds On Lookout, or within the
MASSIVE earthworks about Atlanta.
Savannah is not capable of defence most
other cities of the South 1t is situated on broad,
level plane and its defences at present very i'm
perfect. The city is the Savannah river eighteen
miles from Fort Pulaski, which was built to guard
the entrance to the river. This fort has long since
been In our possession
The river, above the fort and below the city, has
been thoroughly obStructed. Even should the forces
that can be concentrated there be able to offer pro-
tracted resistance to General Sherman his supplies
could be landed at any point between the fort and
distinctions, and the army be fed
Before crossing the Ocmufgee, and little to the
night, Is Mllledgevllle, where Governor Brown pre-
sides. Controlling, he does the railroad interests
OF the State and after ten years of gubernatorial
duties, he feels firm in his seat of power; and with
his peculiar doctrine of State sovereignty, lately
promulgated, feels, in truth, more like monarch.
His correspondence with General Sherman may in
duce the latter to visit that city.
But these speculations, however plausible will
scarcely be read before the real nature of the move
ment will have developed itself That the country
has reason to expect great results from this move
ment Is true; but that they may not expect too
much, and, a result, be disappointed when they
should rejoice, it would be well to caution them.
The object of the is undoubtedly to force the
war into the narrow area OF the Atlantic States.-
General Shelman's proposed campaign in the dfec-
ton Of the present march promised 10 be thwarted
by Hoods movement to the North and such, un.
doubtedly, was the hope OF jeff. Davis.
A correspondent of the same paper, writing from
Rome Georgia, on the 18th, says
Yesterday afternoon the destruction of such
buildings and property might lie of value to the
mand was stationed at Rome, experimenting tn,
destruction, which was confined almost entirely K
property of the rebel Government.
The buildings destroyed were the rolling mills
Government Shops" stables and warehouses
But few private houses were burned, and these
fired accidentally the fire communicating from tn.
burning buildings near. The soldiers seemed Il
make every effort to save private property.
A correspondent of the New York Times gives tn,
following account of the preparations of Sherman
and the departure of his army on the expedition:
Here, at Kingston, preparations were immediate
ly made for the coming campaign. The first inform
alton received concerning the movements about Il
be developed confused me. learned one day tina
orders had been issued to the Twentieth corps which
had been left at Atlanta to cease work upon the for
tifcations. The lady who has the permit for ship
ping all suffers goods required IN the army was ad
vised that her stores must be removed by the l0tl
instant, as Atlanta was to be evacuated and destroy
ed. Upon the same day learned what was a fact
that orders had been issued to the chief commssa,
of the army to send to Atlanta, with all possible
haste thirty days rations for sixty thousand men
These items of information put me in quandary.-
The idea OF sending two millions OF ratons to CIT,
that to be destroyed, non piassed me, and i'm
mediatey sought to solve the enigmatcal reports
and found that their character was not SO antipoda
as they seemed / ascertained, what have KEEP
quiet until the scat jumped" and now purpose u
tell you, that the expedition, composed OF the -Four
teenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Twen
tieth corps, and Kipatrieks cavalry is ON its way
Ine commenced 1lS upon the eve
ming of the 18th instant with division of lAlpa
| tricks cavalry, under General McCook, and tn
| advance iwearps, General Sl0cum In advance. Thl
Macon, and to be iorfoea slowly in the direction
| General jeff c. Davis The Arhfs Faurteenth corps
General Howard, composed of the Fifteenth e6ffffa
General Logan; Sixteenth, General Smith; an
Seventeenth, General Frank Blair; left Kngsto
three days before for Atlanta, tearing up the rail
road as it went along. On the llth, the EtOwa
bridge was destroyed and from thence to the Chatta
hoochee river the work of destruction complete
Almost the entire railroad track was removed, an
the rails twisted up and otherwise injured ali tn
important storehouses and depots were burned an,
the culverts and masonry blown up. The immens
structure which spans the ChattahoOchee burne
and the foundations blown up. Everything was il
readiness at Atlanta to make good the destruction
that town upon the arrival of the Army of the Ten
nessee, and in all probability the Gate City, Ion,
the fountainhead of the South for the production
munitions OF war, was sent reeling to ruin tn,
18th instant The torch was to be applied to al
public buildings, manufactures and storehouses
and everything liable to be transferred to rebel us
which would not burn was to be blown up includine
the railroad buildings and other railway accompa
niments in the centre of the city. The Army OF th,
Tennessee was then 10 presume its march, and will M
doubt make junction with the advance in few days
While this work OF destruction was being performed
detachment OF men operated in like manner to.
ward Chattanooga, and will, no doubt, burn the
bridge over the Oostanaua, at Resaca, and fall bacl
and fOrtlfy near the junction of the Knoxville
branch, south of Dalton. do not know the entire
programme to be carried out by General Sherman
neither do know positively his destination. The
latter may depend somewhat on -circumstances-
After touching at Macon, think he will go north.
east Andersonville is only short distance south
OF Macon but, If the rebels succeed in removing
our prisoners from that point, they probably will
visit in that direction would be Of no earthly ac-
count.
The Washington correspondent of the Times tele.
graphs that Sherman has $4,000 infantry and 1900
cavalry and gives the following outline Of his
dition:
After arriving at Macon he will probably go to
Mlledgerile, where he will divide his army, send
ing part of it to Savannah and part to Augusta.
He will fortify the latter place. and after receiving