Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-12-08
From General Sherman's Army

From General ShermanS Army
The following important despatch has been
received at the War Department:
Cry POINT, Va, Dec. /, 1864,
Hon. E. NJ. Stanton, Secretary Of Var:
Tho Richmond Examiner of to-day admits
that Sherman will succeed in reaching the
seacoast. Other papers admit that he has
crossed the Oconee. U. s.. GRANT,
Lieutenant General.
1t is said by those who have seen Richmond
papers Of Wednesday, that they cthtaiti only
the repetition of the statement that General
Sherman is still Aoundering in the interior Of
Georgia. An Augusta, Georgia, despatch of
the 26th in the Richmond papers received in
New York, say that Sherman's army was
forty five miles south of Augusta and so far
has been bafied. This indicates that he was
so far on his way to Savannah. The Rebel
papers admit that Sherman succcediin reach
ing the seacoast, they also state a large por-
ton Of his army has crossed the Oconee river.
The Savannah papers of the 25th admit
that large bodies of Sherman's troops were
east of the Oconee river, as thousand cav
airy were met by the Rebel scouts marching
directly on Sparta, which is long distance
east of the Oconee. Eatonton, the terminus
of the branch railroad from Gordon on the
Central railroad through Millodgeville, was
occupied on Sunday, Goth, and two thousand
five hundred yankees were seen on the
same day on the road from Greensboro to
Eatonton, the former point being eighty-seven
miles out from Atlanta. and eighty-four from
Augusta, on the Georgia Railroad. The
presence of our troops at Greensboro and
Sparta, shows that the two wings are in COM
munication, and occrpy nearly the whole
country between the two railroads. 1t would
also appear to be the impression in Savannah
and Augusta that Sherman is moving directly
for the former city, completed avoiding Au-
gusta, and thus crossing the Altamaha river,
below the Georgia Central Railroad Rebel
were concentrating at Augusta
with considerable rapidity. General Bragg
was on his way from Wilmington with force
of ten thousand strong. Hamptcn's eavalry
from Virginia, had also arrived at Augusta.
The Government works, powder mills. &C.,
had been removed from the latter place.
Governor Brown is at Macon, and is thus cut
off from the eastern portion Of the State. -
Consequently an acting Governor has had to
be appointed for that portion of the State.
The comments of the Richmond press, on
Shcridan's movements are painfully ludicrous
"a mixture of blustef and apprehension.
The Examiner Of The Goth and of the 28th
affords remarkable CONTRAST In its opinions.
On the Goth it thought that fisherman sfiotld
reach Beaufort he twill have severed every
rail, Dad between Georgia and Virginia :" and
that, operating from Beaufort, he could de-
stroy these roads repeatedly. II concluded
thence that it was "highly important that
Sherman should never take Augusta or reach
Beaufort" On the 18th it thought that he
could only march across the country, and
could do absolutely nothing" but that that
would not injurc the country, and that il Mas
not worth while to disturb {" Lees army, or
any other army, on Shermau's arcotrt."
The Enquirer of the Goth, in the opening Of
IN editorial proclailns tint shermati kas been
q" reptlscd and driven back wherever lie has
Z" attempted to lvafce, his army is t,o* har-
" raised on its fla NIX and rear, and is man
:. fully resisted in 'front.'" and in the conclu-
sion of the same article says that, "Sherman's
e successful march Westward is great moral
defeat to the rebel cause, and further admits
that "while Hoods army is switched off on
ga side track at Tuscumbia, Sherman is
4" rushing like steam engine along the rail-
" roads of Georgia, penetrating the very heart
" of the Consederacy" The endcavor to
cover up the sharp punishment which Sher
man is inAicting in the vitals of the rebellion
S evidently unsuccessful. ...
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