The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-28
HEsOUTHwEsTEBN NCAMPAIGN..THE L
ARMIES OF HOOD AND SHERMAN,

Prom ne Tins'
We have never during the course of the war
had any thing analogous TO the military situation
as it is at present in the Southwest The two
great armies which 90 long confronted one an
other, and which fought each olher from Nash
willie To Atlanta, have parted company, and each
has started of in direction opposite 10 the other
-one striking southwark through Georgia for the
Atlantic coast and the other striking northward
Of the great central mountain range for Middle
Tennessee. One Of the Richmond papers re.
marked, the other day, how strangely ignorant
both sides were concerning the movements Of
thesc great forces. The Rebels have known but
little about the operations of Hoods army and
now that sherman has cut their telegraph lines
m Georgia, they will know little more about
Hood than we know about Sherman; and IL is
likely that what Information they do obtain will
be got through Union mediums, just a. our iu-
formation about Sherman is got through Rebel
mediums
The telCgraphic news which we have been civ.
ing for thc last three days would seem to make il
certain that Hoods army which has been SILVER.
ing on the banks of the Tennessee river for s)me
weeks past has %. last struck up into Middle
Tenneesee. There ere two railroads running
south from Nashville and on the lyestcrnmost of
these lines, or that which joins the Memphis and
Charleston road ~ Decatur, Hood has planted his
army, and has advanced north nearly 10 Coum-
bia, or within huy miles Of Nashville. Our army
under General Thomas, which Sherman Left in
X,
some distance before the Rebels, and at last ad-
vices battle was imminent at COumbia,or some
where between there and Nashville
Thomas strategy IN falling back is doubtless
Similar TO that which Sheridan practscd on two
or three occasions in the Shenandoah valley; but
Ihomas will doubtless see to 1t that no part Of
the Rebel infantry or cavalry effect a lodgment
upon any part of The road running direct between
Nashyile and Chattanooga.
From Sherman army in Georgia the morn
ngg adyices are later, but the Rebels take care
that they shall be sCanty. We give extracts from
!Michmond papers of as late date as Friday last
The Dispatch says that on the previous day
lIhursday) Sherman ''was still west of the
Oconeo river one Of the tributaries of the Alata-
maha, which runs northwest through the centre
of the State of Georgia, and on the west hank of
which stream Miledgeyile is situated" From
Augusta our kilograms are only 70 Tuesday last
and this set forth that Milledgevile tho capital
OF the state, was cepured by Sherman this dav
week. The capture of Macon Is still dubious and
II IL evident that on many points the RebDis as
well at Savannah aud Augusta as atiRiChmOnd
are very ill-informCd.
In the meantime the Rebels are still doing what
they can 10 resist ShCrm1n's advance Hood and
his army are too far away TO furnish relief ia sea
son, unless the militia Of Georgia and adjacent
states and the seaboard garrsons, are able TO in
IeIupt MN longer than is likely. Bu. Governor
Brown has made levy cN DipsSe of all persons
between the ages OF l6 and s., 70 serve for forty
days; and the Governor OF South Carolina has
also ordered out the reserve militia of that State.
'Aoi Aiail, bNlolt starring Out, doubtless
made his calculations for meeting and for scatter
ing this kind of cattle.
The Rebel organs ct Richmond, if they do not
give us much reliable news, arc beginning to
furnish us that style of reading which we antici-
pated at the beginning of the campaign The
Ea'dmineT OF Thursday announces with a calm
and magnificent satisfaction, which is quite appal-
ling to us, that seyeral dispatches concur in the
declaration that Sherman's army is ruined" 20
which II appends the remark -"This is all the
news from Georgia which we are disposed to
publish this morning." We really should think
It would be. And pray is il not enough to satisfy
even the stomach of a Rebel 1t is mortifying,
however, to find that the Examiner Is quickly
compelled to modify in very odd way its grand
announcement.
IL subsequently comes down and coolly tells us.
-"Persons who have an opportunity of ascer-
tainiDg the situation of affairs in Georgia, are
quite hopeful that General Sherman will be
brought to grief ere he reaches the coast. o
Temporal o morcSl The Win of Friday does not
se9m 10 see that Shermans army is "ruined,"
but II docs think that il will exhaust Shermans
skill to make good the retreat of the remnant
OF his "defeated army" The Sentinel, after
calling furiOusly on the Georgia Rebels TO
harass Sherman by attacks and alarms, by night
and day, to block his road, destroy his supply
trains, and cut him up In detail, adds that there
will soon be "grand hunt" in Georgia, of which
Shermans army will be victims and advises
everybody to join in.
We thought the Rebels were too old to fancy
they would do anything but entertain us by such
talk as this. They might well stick to the
truth, for such nonsensical falsehoods do not at
all disturb us.