Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-07-21
ROSS & RossER, Publishers.

A Canadian Review of the Campaign
4 of 1S64-HOw the Military Situation
/ Looks TO a FOreIgner-The Federal
/ Campaign of 1s64.
From che Montreal Telegraph -
So far, the Federal campaign Of 1864 has
failed more completely than any of its pre-
decessors. The various movements have
been ficiently developed to enable US to
speak positively Of the general plan; the
design was of magnificent proportions, tn e
forces and material employed immense; the
results have been many disasters, numerous
repulses, frightful waste of life and treasure,
and not single victory. Ea1 tEst H9T
The grand objective point of the design
was the isolation and capture of Richmond.
The operations in the Southwes were de-
Signed to assist thss object. Banks in North
1ern Louisiana and Smith in Southern Arkan-
sas were directed to clear the right bank Of
the Mississippi by an advance with forces
Isupposed to be sufficient to defeat the Con-
federates in those States, destroy them or
drive them into Texas; thus leaving tn
Father of Waters free, and preventing any
/ cooperation between the enemy east and
west of the Mississippi. Later a small force
was to issue from Vicksburg and march to-
wards Selma, threatening the Confederate
army in Georgia under Johnston in the
flank and rear; Sherman with the main west
ern army was to break up at Chattanooga,
and move rapidly toward Atlanta in the
hope Of defeating Johnston aud capturing
that imports tant arsenal and depot or at least
preventing any reinforcements being sent
| from that quarter to Lee; while Sturgis was
to move from Memphis towards Chsttanoo-
ga, covering Sherm ans communications and
preventing any dangerous interruption of
,orI u,
see and Kentucky the railways were guard
ed By large bodies of Western Militia called
out for q hundred days servive. The forces
employed in these operations numbered
fully ESQ 900 meu. of whom oue-half were
under Sherm ans immediate command.
At the beginning OF May, Grant proposed
to break up at Culpepper where he lay a
few miles north of Lee, move rapidly by his
left, east nd south. to the junction of the
Fredericksburg and Richmond and Virginia
Central Railways, thus getting between Lee
and Richmond, and threatening that city
from the north west, while Sigel was to ad-
vance down the Shenandoah, and with the
cooperation of Crooks and Averill, destroy
Lees communication with Western Virginia
and Tennessee. capture Lynchburg and the
supplies gathered there, and to break up the
railway lines west OF Richmond. Stimuli
the James River, destroy the Petersburg
Railway, and capture that city, break up tbs
Dan vile and Richmond line aud isolate and
threaten the Confederate capital from the
south. 'The best laid schemes of mice and
men gang oft aglee.' In the West, Sher-
man, by dint of numbers made respectable
progress; j ohnston compeped, him however,
to pay dearly for every mile of advance,
fighting him wherever the ground was favor
able, infictiug immense losses on him at
trifing cost; dexterously evading all his
6anking ovemepts; thrashing him hand
somely at Resaca and Dallas, and fnally
bringing him TO a stand still north of
Marietta, where the two armies now con-
front each other, Johnston offering battle,
and Sherman seeking to avoid it,
The cooperating expeditions in this quar-
ter have all miscarrsd. In the Trans. Miss
issippi district Banks and Smith were de-
feated with enormous loss in men guns and
materials; 13 600 prisoners, 81 armed, and
transport steamers, 55 gnns, and over 2,0o0
wagons were among the trophies Of the vic
tories in this campaign. The political re-
suits were the recovery by the Confederates
of the whole of the States Of Texas, Arkan
sas and Louisiana. except New Orleans Little
Rock, and a few garrisoned ports.
The expedition which went ont from
Vicksburg was repulsed add driven back;
that which Issued from Memphis was deci-
siveiy defeated, with the loss of more than
half its numbers, and nearly all its arms,
artillery and material With the exception
Of few armed posts the Confede crates have
recovered the whole of the Mississippi, and
the river of that name is again blockaded;
com muuication is established once more
between the sections of the Confederacy and
men and supplies freely pass from one side
to the other Morgan has made success
fuI raid into kentucky, and Forrest is NOV
ing in force against the Federal depots and
lines of com munication in Tennessee, while
Wheeler is effectqally stopping transporta-
ton between Sherman and his base OF sup
plies aud grand depot at Chattanooga.
In the East the campaign has been but
little more successful. Sigsl was defeated,
and Hunter, his successor, with his coadju-
tors. has accomplished nothing more than
tearing mp a few miles OF railway, and ra-
vaging the country through which they
parsed. =,
Butler and Smith were defeated with
heavy loss. and compelled to intrench them
at Bermuda Hundred, under cover oil the
FIRE Of the gunbosts.
Sheridan's raid, first to destroy the rail-
way commentators north OF Richmond
and next 10 cooperate with Hunter, Crooke
and AveriIl. failed completely, effecting
little beyond the diminution of his force to
ons-half, and the exhaustion ofthe remain:
der. And this brings us to the operations OF
the Eastern aamy under Grant aud Meade.
At the beginning OF May the grand army
of the Potomac lay around CulpePper; the
army of Virginia, under Lee. was in the
ueiehborhood of Orange Court House, Its
left resting on that place, and its right ex-
tended eastward toward Fredericksburg
watching the fords of the Rspidan, the wag-
:ons Of the whole force packed. and the men
Toodv m move at a moments notice to the