, 1865-01-13
(From the N. Y Herald, December 20, 1851
II SITUATION.

ditional troops, TO make up the deicien-
cies caused by credits on the last previous
call, has been ordered by President Lin
coin.
An order has been issued from the War
Department calling for the immediate re-
turn to duty, at their respective posts, of
all military officers and men IN goodhealth,
absent from the armies and not on detach-
ed service. The order states that every
soldier is needed in the field to fill up the
ranks, "and aid the patriotic and gallant
troops now shifting the Keeling enemy
with victorious blows" Increased dill
gence is enioined on recruiting officers,
and all provost marshals are urged to In
dustry in arresting and sending forward
deserters and all others absent without
leave.
The exceedingly Interesting dispatches
from the Herald correspondents at Hilton
Heed and in the vicinity Of Savannah
which we lay before our readers this
morning furnish some Of the details of
General Sherman'S important movement
across the State Of Georgia and arrival
before Savannah, AS well as OF The co
operative work vi Ganrral Foster in South
Caroline, in the ncighborhood Of the
Charleston and Savannah Railroad, and Of
the naval fleet duder Admiral Dahlgreen.
When General Sherman arrived in front
of Savannah, after having marched three
hundred miles, his troops living mean
while on the very best of provisions, he
had with him q drove of twelve hundred
cattle, though he started from Atlanta
with only two hundred. He also gathered
up on the way over seven thousand able
bodied negroes, and so many horses. mules
and wagons as to embarrass him. His
army, during a considerable portion of
the march, extended over a sweep Of
country sixty miles in breadth, as much
as forty miles at times intervening be-
tween the right wing of one column and
the left of the other; but communication
was at all times kept up between the two.
The whole loss in men from the time of
leaving Atlanta till the arrival in front of
Savannah, from wounds, sickness, cap
lures, struggling and all other causes was
only about one thousand. The average
daily march was about twelve miles.
When the city of Savannah was invested
by General Sherman's army it was unpre-
pared for a siege, and it was believed
that it could not hold out more than a few
days. Indeed, General Sherman himself
said, one week ago to day, that he con-
sidered it already gained. Our latest
dates from there are of last Wednesday,
the 14th inst. What has happened in the
interval we shall soon hear.
The fine progress being made by Gen.
Thomas in his pursuit of Hoods fleeing
rebel army is shown in his despatch to
Secretary Stanton. 1t details the opera
tions of Sunday. The rebels were still
in full retreat, and moving so rapidly that
General Thomas says his captures on
that day were very light in comparison
TO those of the preceding three days, only
some two or three hundred prisoners
being taken, including Brigadier General
Quarics. Up to Sunday evening the re-
bells had been driven as far south as
Spring Hill, thirty miles from Nashville,
and the chase was to be continued yester-
day morning. General Thomas says that
he had found the railroad but little in
jured that his trains by rail would be
up to him in two or three days, and that
the telegraph was already in working