Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-11-16
WHERE SHERMAN.
The Military MISUNDERSTANDING and
Theories,

Letter from an Ohio officer
HEADQUARTERS 18th ONO VOLUNTEERS
ATLANTA, GA, Oct. 81. X 4 x ! suppose q
few words on the situation here will not be
wholly uninteresting 10 you. At present the
Twentieth Corps-of which our regiment Is
a part-stilI occupies the city. The balance o.
the army is supposed TO be some where near
the Alabama line, and looking after Hood,
whose headquarters are reported to be at De-
catur, Alabama. 1t is my opinion that Gen
Sherman is now doing the ''lettng alone'
part, in order that Hood may get himself here
Jordan is hard road TO travel to again
find himself in Dixie. We are under orders
to prepa re for a sixty days campaign, SO you
see tb at does not look much like spending the
winter in Atlanta, as many have hoped to do.
1t is not supposed that any below a Major
General knows what is to be the programme,
nor do they; but it is generally conjeCtured
that large force Is soon to start tor Savannah
via Augusta and Milledgeylle. General
Thomas VIII have force enough. with what
will be left him by Sherman, 10 ssdo the agree
able'' to Hood, and but little may be expected
10 meet our ..On to savannah or where YER
it-may.b be movement. Iou may expec. that
''something may turn up before this army
settles down for the winter.
The people In this region are generally re-
bellious, but fortunately there are not many Of
the fighting men left Since Hood cut Sher-
mans communications, and stopped the in
coming OF supplies from our base, we have
done some pretty heavy toraging. Four for
aging parties have already brought i'll not less
than twenty -four thousand bushels of corn,
with hogs, chickens, sweet potatoes, &c, in
abundance. If Hood can afford to meddle with
SheIman's rear, he can afford to subsist this
army and fear the citizens where our parties
have been are not now luXurating in their
plenty of which the "Confederacy'' is so boast
ful. Atlanta has been and is being fortified, to
make it q Gibraltar; bnt as it can no longer be
strategic point for tne rebels, L tnink IL NOT
certain that it will not be abandoned when we
start on the contemplated campaign. This, or
course, is only conjecture. II it is abandoned,
it will only be because ii is not necessary to
hold it
IsGen,I Sherman going to Andersomville
From the Toledo Blade
We get no direct official authority for the
statement that General Sherman has cut loose
from the north, abandoned Atlanta and moved
south; neither do get any official denial of it,
Upofi cial evidence to that effect is rapidly ac-
cumulatiDg from many sources, which leave
very little room to doubt Its truth. A private
letter received this morning from one in posi-.
ton to know, assures us that this report is true
We are satisfied that the mcredulous will have
but short time to wait for conviction. They
NAV look for proof first from Richmond, say as
soon as the middle of next week. 1t is believed
that the movement was decided on several
weeks go, and kept admirably well concealed
from the public and gossip. General sherman
knows what he is about and has taken his
own method of making il known to the Rebels
themselves. His highly significant letter TO this
President of the Western Sanitary Commission
is now quoted 1t seems that some time aro
that Commission sent large supplies to Atlanta
for our prisoners at AndersOnVille, Georgia. by
request OF sherman, arrangements ha wing been
made with Hood TO deliver them Military
movements prevented their delivery, and now
General Sherman writes TO the President of the
Commission that he Will "hold the articles for
the purpose designed, but that it may be neces-
sary for him to 90 TO Audersonville to deliver
the supplies in person."
Table of Distances
As matter OF interest, we compile the
following table of distances from Atlanta
TO the several points which have been men,
,loned as likely TO be visited by Sherman:
Miles.
Atlanta to Macon con................... .lu3
Macon to Savannah. 1913
Atlanta To Augusta. ....................l7i
Augusta to Savannah. .i32
Augusta to Charleston, 8. 1877
Atlanta to Lynchourg, Va. $50
From the New York Herald,
Hoods Escape from Sherman.
On October %, Hood moved from Gadsden,
through Lookout Mountain, towards tfuhter's
Landing and Decatur. on the Tennessee river,
nesr the last named places he formed q juac-
tion with Gen. Dick Taylor's army, which had