The weekly union record., 1864-11-26
Sherman's New Movement.

at the South and il the Northern States; and
il appears to be the impression in both sections
that this movement has for its ultimate objec.
the capture Of Savannah or Charleston, or,
perhaps, both of these cities. Il was asserted
by the rebels, at first. that Sherman was NOV.
ing against Mobile. How much of these
statements Is mere conjecture we caunot yet
tell, as Sherman keeps his objects as much from
Northern newspaper correspondents as from
the rebel military authorities. His abandon
ment Of Atlanta, however, and destruction OF
the Chattanooga Railroad, together with the
fact that be has not provided himself with a
cumbersome train Of supplies, would seem TO
indicate an intention of making swift march
upon one of these seaboard cities, and the
opening Of water line of communications.
Brigadier General Barry, Chief Of Artillery
in SbeTman's army, who was seriously i'll, left
the army. on the 18th inst, for the North.
The army was then at Kingston. fifty miles
north Of Atlanta. General Barry says Sher-
man has all the infantry, cavalry and artillery
be wants. Their outfit had been especially
adapted for a hard and rapid Winter campaign.
The morale of the troops is unequaled. The
genius and vigor of Sherman will carry the
army triumphantly through the work it has to
do. Another account says Shermans head
quarters, on the 14th inst, were at Kingston !;
and that he issued an order telling the troops
that they were about 10 pass through a country
heretofore unoccupied by either army, and they
were expected to subsist on the country, taking
all the horses and mules within reach.
The New York Times Washington special
says; ut is not coutraband news to say that
Sherman vial touch at Macon. His army
numbers fifty thousand men, including nine
thousand picked cavalry under Fitzpatrick He
has ratiobs for thirty days for man and beast.
After arriving at Macon, lie will probably 90
to Miledgeville, where he will divide bis army,
sending part to Savannah and part to Augusta,
where he will fortify and receive supplies up
the Savannah river, so as to move on Columbia
or Charleston. This programme will destroy
the railroad system of Georgia, and also all
manufactures of shell, fixed ammunition, e:c.
1t is impossible for Beauregard to intercept
Sherman"
The Herald's speeiel dispatch says: In
connection with Sherman's movement south, it
is significant that the Legislature of Georgia
meets at Milledgeville about this time. In the
Legislature it is understood the Union senti.
ment is strong. Some here high in military
position, assert that peace proposition, backed
up by large Union force, viii be in the as
cendancy, and that free expression of opinion
being thus secured under the protection of our
army, they viii repeal the ordinance of secession
and place Georgia beneath the Union flag. 1t
is not improbable that Sherman has been in
communication with parties in power. and that
this understanding between him ard such par
ties was one reason for the new campaign"
\ telegram says General Grant was in New
York. on Monday (2lsr and had au interview
with General Scott. To gentlemen of New
York, Grant is reported to have said The
Confederacy is mere shell. | know it, and
Sherman will prove it," In answer TO the
question whether, in his opinion, ninety days
would bring the end, he said, with a grim
smile: a am not ninety days man, but we
shall see what will happen in six months"
The above telegraphic statements aud rumors
We give for what they are worth. Time alone
will determine how much of truth there is in
them. This much, however. may be relied
upon; If Sherman is successful in the move
ment now in progress, the door Of retreat for
JEFF. Davis aud Lee from Virginia will be closed
and the last remaining army Of the Confederacy
will find its last ditch in the same vicinity
where it dug its first one. The rebel Hood is
confronted in tennessee by General Thomas
who has force sufficient. according to latest
accounts, not only to hold HIM at bay, but to
attack and probably defeat him However
much Shorman's movement is shrouded in
mystery at this time, we have confidence that
it viii be the grand elimination Of one of the
most successful and glorious campaigns known
in history, and most probably be, cooperative
with Grant in Virginia, the death blow to the
rebellion.
TINS TrtARE MrRDERERs- Mason ard
Henry, the Secessionists who lately committed
several of the most heartleSs and cold blooded
murders ever recorded in the annals of crime,
upon the persons Of unoftuding Union men in
Tulare county, we're seen, few days since,
near Sa0 Juan South, Monterey county. They
had copmiued three or four highway robberes.
Parties are iu hot pursuit Of them. Governor
Low has offered a reward Of $500 each for
their apprehension, in addition to which the
Sheriff of Fresno county has offered reward
Of the same amount. The only excuse offered
by these fends for their crimes is that their
victims were Union men and had voted for
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