Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-26
sOUTMERN NEWS.
The situation i'm GeOrgia-Hepci az
counts of Hoods Progress /

From Richmond papers OF Oct. l9' we
make the following extracts:
rs THE SITUATION IN GEORGIA.
from The Richmond Examiner. Oct. l9,l
The Southern mail brings us some later
adyices of the situation in Georgia. Ihe
Montgomery (Ala.) Appeal says that Gen.
Reanrerard and staff passed through Ope-
lika. Ala, on the Sth, on his way to the
Tennessee army. to assume the command.
The Appeal says that it Is able to state on
good authority, that he will personally d.
rect the movements and operations OF the
army until the fall campaign shall have
been fully closed. ,3ehlF t2fi
From The Richmond Enquirer, Oct. 19l
The official intelligence from the seat of
war In Georgia is of great interest. The
State road from Resaca to Tunnel Hill has
been utterly destroyed. This Is the only
line of railroad that connected Shermdn's
, army in Atlanta with his base at Chatta-
nooga. Sherman cannot begin to repair the
railroad without first marching to Chatta-
nooga, because he has no rails in Atlanta,
and we presume the destruction OF the rail-
road implies the removal of the rails. He
is thus forced to wagon his supplies after
his army, which, marching upon the cOun-
try roads, will prolong the time and force
consumption of his supplies. He will have
to fight battle, in all probability, before
hereaches Chattanooga, and If defeated III
the battle, with Hood between him and
Chattanooga, his army must be destroyed.
With every allowance, therefore, for the
uncertainty of battle, we cannot but regard
the position of the enemy in Georgia as
very perileus, and with every reasonable
, prospect of the total ruin and destruction
of his army.
The garrison left in Atlanta may be
strong enough to hold the intrenchments
against assaults, but Il The main body Of
iSherman's army Is defeated by Hood there is
no escape for the remnant left in Atlanta.
: IL is not proper to say tchere Hoods army Is,
or ,chdt its movements tciH be; but it has not
merely tornup the railsit has literally set do,on
on the railroad, and must be defeated before the
cork Of repairing can be begun.
Such is the condition in Georgia, where
the enemy had full success, and where the
rebellion had been pronounced suppressed
After fighting four months to get into At
lanta, Sherman is compelled to begin new
campaign to get out of the city. He cap
tured Atlanta, and there is every prospect
that Atlanta will capture his army. Such
is subjugation, such is suppression of the
rebellion! From the sublime to the ridic-
ulous there is but one step, and Sherman
UOOk SLtp WucL uc CubCICu huahto
without destroying the army of Hood
| The moment he changed places with Hood,
and from the besieger permitted himself to
be besieged, that moment changed the
whole aspect of affairs in Georgia, and Of
| fered the best opportunity for destroying
| the army of the enemy that has been pre-
| sented during the war. No gunboats can
| help him, as was the case at Shiloh; no for
tifcations can protect him, as at Fredericks.
burg; if he fights it must be when and
where Hood selects; If he does not fight
he must starve. We do not look for any
great battle in Georgia. The best policy
for Hood is to avoid fight, and to iarass
the enemy, exhaust his supplies, and de-
moralize his army.
The Macon papers contain the subjoined
items:
had long conversation with gentle
man this morning, just from the Army OF
Tennessee. He represents things as being
all right about the army; that we have pos
session of the State road from Big Shanty
to Altoona; that we have utterly destroyed
this road for fifteen miles, filling up the
cuts with rocks and dirt and brush, and
spading down the hills, so that Sherman
could not mend the road in fifteen days il
he had possession of it. He represents the
army as being in the finest spirits, and in
creasing in numbers dailya at the rate OF
from five hundred to thousand.
The soldiers say they will be content with
o handful of corn day, If Gen. Hood will
only keep them going forward, and that
they will whip Sherman if he dares to at
tack them.
II is said that Gen. Hood has prohibited
the sending of dispatches beyond his lines
for the present.
1t is rumored on the street that Forrest
has captured Sherman, who was returning
from Washington City. If this be true, the
Army of the Cumberland will be in bad
Mcpherson dead and Sherman cap
tured-with the brains knocked out and the
head cut off what can the body do? ,' ID