Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-11-17
THE NEW CAMPAIGN OF GEN SHERMAN


The Cincinnati Commercial of Monday, article on
the present Military Situation" speculstes as follows on
the new campaign of Gen. Sherman
The air is filled with the runior and than runor,
that the most kabe critical and promising offensive
movement of the war 10 being made of course by
querng of tho West under the intrepid and adven-
Sherman Some of the recent sayngs OF the Gene
raj throw light this subject In letter to sanitary
agent few days since be he expects no will have to
20 person relieve the wants Of prisoners who are
penned up in Lower Georgia and South Carolina Speak
ing of Hood the other day when 1t was not certain what
that individual was about he said that General Johnston
being sensible man, he could generally divine his move
ments but Hood not being sensible man. no could
any thing about him. He also said of Hood: If he will
go to the Ohio river will give him ratons and let him 60
North my business is down South!
$50 far as we are concerned the rebels must get their
information to Shermans movements from his advanced
guard but it is safe to say there Is doubt the state
which has been made that he has left Thomas to look
after Hood and has marched from Atlanta with the main
body of his army southwark aiming for some point on the
Gulf the Atlantic, is true he can go TO Montgomery
and march norhward after Hood westward to the Mis-
sssppi southwark to Moble or ne can go to Macon
and find base at Pensacola or no can take the State
capital INTELLECTUALLY aud come out at Savannah; or ne
the Savannah river at Augusta aud proceed 10
odgment the South Carolina coast al Beaufort;
sweep from Augusta to Charleston which could not DO
provisoned for siege, even If were now known 70 20
| the objective point Of the campaign
"The rebels have before them fine held Tor conjecture
and shall be disappointed if their cogatlons do not
take the form of CONSERVATION before long Their latest
papers greatly pleased at the notion that Hoot was
marching NORTH and the possibility OF Sherman advancing
beyond Atlanta does not to have occurred to them
He will take them entirely by SURPRISE and Will have two
hundred and fifty miles at least the start OF Hood, If it
thought desirable that the rebel Army OF the Tennessee
should dog his footsteps. Thomas is competent to take
of Hood any event Grant has Lee at dead strain
and Ee has enough TO do to watch Sheridan and reor
gsnze the forces half dozen times whipped under Early
SO there is nothing to oppose Sherman but the militia Of
the Southeastern Cotton States and that will perhaps
have ample occupation in guarding the army OF prisoners
held in Georgia and South Carolina and the immense null
tude of negroes hudded into those States by their mas
| tiers, to keep them out Of our way.
The nett result Of the fighting the West Is Shermsns
victorious army starting from Atlanta without formidable
foe in front The possibilities of the. movement he il
making stupendous. If he should happen to be going
to South Caroins by way of Augusta he gather
army of abebodied negroes the road and relieve Jef
Davis Co of the pretext for the agonizng discussion OF
the project for arming the slaves He may, by swoop
of his cavalry and the rapid march of detached columns
release forty thousand United States soldiers without the
formaity of exchange BY holding Chattanooga and
Resaca and destroying all beyond he can the time he
crosses the Savannah river cut Of all son by
rail telegraph between Richmond and Georgia. Alabama
and Mississippi, and will place himself in Lees
Thus the movement that the people 10 be-
ing made is throwing Shermans sword on the side Of
Grant into the seales 10 which he and Lee balancing
the desnes of nations 1t is the contribution of the
suits Of the of victory armies have had in the
West TO help the undecided contest in the East 1t ia
returning to Grant in the East the profit OF his victories
| the West.
However, as 10 the pfactlcabiilty oil all tns Are we
| safe in Tennessee while Sherman swings of southeast
We have doubt Of it. We must make ourselves safe, il
not. The army left Thomas is equal to that OF
Hood, aud with the whole Northwest to back him, we
presume he get along As to providing for bis army
Shermans march will be through country full of corn
hitherto untouched by the desoatng hand Of war He
will start with we'll filed trains and sweep the country
far and wide he There great rivers to
pass, if he goes to South Carolina until he reaches the
Savannah, and of pontoon train goes with him.
From Atlanta to Augusta the distance is III miles, from
Augusta to Charleston l3 miles About three hundred
miles have to be marched whichever way Sherman goes
before he reaches new base This is months
work, for there points at which he will be annoyed
He is not likely to find the roads and bridges in rood
order to leave them and bis enemies desperate
enough to initiate the Russians in laying waste their
country in his path. But presume may start with
food his wagons that may be made to hold out for thirty
days and he certainly gather ten days. supplies the
road. This would give him forty days to get through
1.-THE principal danger Is from bad weather If there
should happen fortnight Of deuge, such Rose
abored through when be moved from Murreesboro
the consequence might be disastrous. But the General
who led the raid from Vicksburg to Meridian and the
column that fought and foraRed from Memphis to Knox
vile, be trusted to find bis way from Atlanta TO the
| Atlantic