Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1864-12-01
shermans great expedition.

CHCImduS UECdb EApCultlOuS
1t has become well known througl
the North, that Sherman has started o
an important expedition from Atlanta
but the conjectures which have bee
formed relative to It's character and des
tination have bssa so various, that ltd
is really known concerning it. It shsul
have been kept entirely secret; but Their
are other leaks than newspaper CORES
pondents, through which almost every
thing reaches the enemy in a remarka
bly, brief period. In this instance tw
staff officers got drunk, ard .blabbed tn
whole thing-at least as far rs tie,
knew anything about it-in almost e7e..
aIOon in Nashville; and have get It ol
the very best authority. that a MaJo
General, while inebriated, revealed al
he knew three weeks since; but who h'
is, l no not know.
Under all these circum stances, deem
it altogether proper to give such an out
line of the movement as will not inter
fere with any of Sherman's plans.
The army which lett Atlanta consisted
Of the following troops:
Fourteenth Corps 9.OOl
Fifteenth Corps 10000
Seventeenth Corps 5000
Twentieth Corps 10000
Total $4,000
Guns $50
The cavalry are well mounted, the
best horses formerly in this section hav-
ing been sent them.
Sherman has been chiefly occupying
his time in laying in a full supply of hard
bread and beef cattle; and he has With
him Of The former sky days full rations
and several thousand head of the cattle.
For all things else he will depend on the
country over which he is to pass. His
animals can subsist we'll. Corn and
sweet potatoes are abundant. During
the week ending on the 9th instant he
gathered in l,760 wagon loads of corn.
1876 loads of sweet potatoes, and few
horses, without sending his fOraging
parties more .aan thirty miles from At
lanta He could manage to live for six
months without communicating once With
the North. In reference to his cavalry.
he feels certain of his ability to obtain
horses enough to keep good his original
stock; and perh aps he may be enable to
mount some more men.
You have heard a great deal about the
proposed destruction of Atlanta, &c.
But that is all bosh. Sherman's motto
Is: Remove all Obstacles to success;
permit no wanton destruction of life or
and it is upon this that he has
recently acted. He has rendered Allan
ia untenabie; has .des;rOyedsssuch build
ings as could have been made valuable /
to the enemy, but has harmed no others.
A portion of the left Atlanta on the
morning of the 9th, and followed the
railroad to Macon, destroying it as il |
proceeds; the column viii take Milledge-
vile in its way, and 1t Is probable that
he cavalry WILL attempt to release the
Union prisoners.
The second column started on Satur-
lay morning last, and goes direct to Au
yus;a, the chief manufacturing point Of
he Confederacy, and one in which near
y all the powder used by the Southern
lrmy is made. This will be reached in
lbout twelve or fifteen days.
At this point the whole army will con-
:entrate, and then move on one of three
POINTS, as Sherman shall deem most
proper. These are Savannah, Charles
on or Beaufort. He believes that Sa-
-annah, with the railroads through Ga.
ut, will be perfectly harmless, and there
will be no advantage in holding it. The
ame may be said of Charleston. Lei
Sherman advance to Branchville, twenty
II thirty miles out and that place is cut
IF effectually.
To capture either Savannah or Charles
on, fortified as they are, would take
ime, even though not strongly garris-
med, while the moment the army reach
IS Beaufort, it meets supplies IN abund-
nee and ships to transfer it to any point
may be made most useful.
This | know to be his plan at present.
However, it may become necessary to
lake Augusta new base, and in that {
ase Savannah must be captured; but
herman now believes that he can as
asily make one on the sea coast, and in
le meantime destroy all the railroads in
Georgia and South Carolina so efectu-
lIv as to render them worthless during I
,e war. Unless, therefore, unexpected
bstacles are met, he will reach the
,ean at Beaufort in about thirty-five or