Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-01-05
yellow grass underneath and the deep ever.
TOUCHING IycIDIpTs.


yellow grass underneath and the deep ever
green.
TOUCHING INcIDIrTs.
The most pathetic scenes occur upon o,,,
line Of march daily and hourly. Thousand
Of negro women join the column. some car
rying househeid truck; others, and MANY a
them there are; who bear the heavy burdsr
Of children in their arms, while older bow
and girls plod by tbeir::sides. All these wo We
men and children are ordered back, heart
liberty. They won't 60. One bees tina
at Savannah. Long years ago she wa,
forced from them and ssld. Another bs,
heard that her boy vas in Macon, and /,
"done gone with grief gcin' on four wears. .
But the majority accept the advent of the
Yankees as the fulfillment of the millennial
prophecies. The day Of jubilee" !" the hope
and prayer of lifetime, has come. Tbey
cannot be made TO understand that tbey
must remain behind, and they are satisfied
only when General Sherman tells them-ss
he does every day--that we shall come back
for them some time, and that they must be
patient until the proper hour of delivsrance
GENES.
The other day woman with a child in
her arms was working her way along
amongst the teams aud crowd of cattle and
horsomen. An officer called 10 her kindly:
Where are you going, auntyf"
She looked up into his face with hone
full beseeching look. and replied:
"Ese gvine whar you'ss gwine, masss. I"
1t was near this place that several factor
les were burned. 1t was odd 10 see the de-
light Of tho negroes ut the destruction of
places known only 10 than a. tssk rhsusss.
where they had greansd under the lssb.
STATION OF TEE GEORGIA CENTRAL R.R.
November 30.
With the exception Of the 18th Corps our
army is across ths Ogsohee, aud without
fighting . battle. This river il Q line of
great strength to the rebels, and they might
have made its passage . costly effort for US,
but they were outwiitsd and eutmaueuver,
ed.
We have heard to-day from Kilpatrick
and from Millen. fitzpatrick made 4 snlsn-
did march, fighting Wheeler all the vay to
Wsynesboro' destroying the Railroad bridge
crossing BrisI Creek, between Augusta and
Millen. Ii is with real grief that write
he was unable to accomplish the release of
our prisoners. 1t appears that for seme
time past the rebels have been renewing
our soldiers from lillsn; the officers have
been sent to Columbia, South Carolina. and
the privates further South, somewhere on
the Gulf Bailread.
THE PASSAGE OF THE oGHouRE.
We have had very little difficulty in pass
ing the Ogecbes. The 10th Corps moved
down the railroad, destroying it to the
bridge. The 18th carys covered the river
at this point. whore light bridge was only
partially destroyed. 1t was easily repaired,
so that the infantry and cavalry could pass
it, while the wagons and artillery used the
'pontoons. The Ogechee Is about sixty
yards in width at this point. 1t is approach
ed on the northern and western side through
swamps, which would be impassable we're
it not for the sandy SOIL which packs solid
when the water covers the road, although
in places there are treacherous auicksands
which we are obliged to corduroy.
This evening walked down to the river.
A novel and VIVID sight was it to see the
fires Of pitch pine 6aring up into the mist
and darkness, the figures of men and horses
looming out of the dense shadows 10 gigan-
tic proportions. Torcblights are blinking
and flashing away off in the forests, while
the still air echoed and re-sohoed with the
cries of teamsters and the wild shouts of the
soldiers. A long line Of the troops marched
across the foot bridge, each soldier bearing
a torch, their lights reflected in quiverine
lines in the swift running stream.
Soon the fog, which settles like blanket
over the swamps and forests of tho river
bottoms, shut down upon the scene, and so
dense and dark was it that torches were of
but little use, and men were directed here
and there by the voice.
sHEaMAN's MANEUvER.
SCARBORo', Ga, Dec 3.-Pivoted upon
Millen the army has swung slowly round
from the eastern course, and is now moving
In six columns upon parallel reads south
ward. Until yesterday it wasimpossibls for
the rebels to decide whether or not it was
Gen. Sherman's intention to march upon
Augusta. Fitzpatrick had destroyed the
bridge above Waynesboro', and falling back
had again advanced, supported by the 14th
Army Corps, under Gen. Davis, South of
this column, moving eastward through Birds
Vile, was the 10th Corps, commanded by
Gen. Slocum. Yet further south, the 18th
Corps, General Blair in command, followed
the railroad, destroying it as he advanced,
West and south Of the Ogechee, the 18th
Corps, Gen. Osterhaus in immediate com
mand, but under the eye Of Gen. Howard.
has msvsd in two columns. =
Until new Davis and Fitzpatrick have been
a cover and shield to the real movements. :
At no time has it been possible for Hardee
to interpese any serious obstacle to the ad-
vance of the main body of our army, for our
left wing has always been strong arm
thrust out in advance. ready to put in
chancery any force which might attempt to
get within its guard.
The rebsl councils Of war appear to have
been completely deceived, for we hear it re-
ported that Bragg and Longstrset are at
Augusta, with ten thousand men, made up
Of militia, two or three South Carolina regi.
ments and a portion of Hampton's Lsgiens
sent there for one month. II is possible,
now, that the curtin has been withdrawn,
and as it may appear that we are marching
straight for Savannah, their General, with
their ten thousand, may attempt toharrass
eur rear, but they can accomplish nothing
but the loss of a few lives, without checking
our, progress.
The work 30 admirably performed BY our
left wing, SO far as it obliged the rebels in
our front constantly to retreat, by threat
ening their rear, now becomes the office Of
the 18th Corps, our right wing, on the right
bank OF the river. Its two columns are NOV
ing one days march in advance Of the main
body Of the army. marching down the PENN
sula between the Savannah and Ogeches