Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-01-05
From General Sherman.

General Sherman, it is said, consid
'crs BranchFille, South Carolina, 'ol
much greater Importance than Charles
ton, it being a great railroad centre
and thinks that, upon the occupation
of the former point, communication
could easily be opend with Beaufort
when Charleston would fall without a
struggle. expedition left Fort Nc.
Allister on the 18th instant, ina south.
erly direction, with the object, it is
supposed of releasing the Union pris-
oners confined at place ninety miles
distant. 1t is estimated that Sher-
mans forces, during their march
through Georgia, destroyed $4,000
bales Of cotton, The rebels make no
secret of their Infamous treatment of
Union prisoners. The Raleigh IN.
Co. Progress says: Since the cs-
Enlistment of the prison at Anderson
vile, Ca, last spring, $4,000 Yankee
prisoners have died and been buried
there. The prisoners at no time ex-
cecded 10000. Their graves are mark
ed with numbers, and registry is
kept in the prison, representing the
name, regiment and State"
A Hilton Head, despatch of Deem
Der 26 says, Kilpatrick's corps has
returned from destroying a portion of
the Gulf and Albany railroad, near the
Altamaha river. Fifty locomotives and
proportionate number of cars are
shut up between Albany and the Alta.
maha. Gen. Fuller, with two brigades
of the 18th corps, spent five days on
the road also, and Gen. Haren's divis-
ion of the 18th corps the same. The
destruction is complete to the Altama-
ha. A plank wagon road was found
leading from the railroad toward Dari-
en-, from which part of heavy train
loaded from blockade-runners had pas
sed into the interior. A force of cav
airy, accompanied by infantry, has
crossed into South Carolina. The OBJ
structions in the Savannah are being
rapidly and successfully removed.
Boats run daily from this point. Great
quantities of valuable property are
daily brought to light. Our army is
in camps in the numerous parks and
yards of the city.
One of General Sherman's scouts, a
member of the 10th Iowa, who rcceiv-
ed furlough for valuable and distin-
guished services rendered in the cam
paign through Georgia has arrived at
Baltimore. He left Savannah on the
26th, at which time heavy cannona-
ding was going on in the direction of
Broad river, supposed to be a battle
between Hardce's retrcating forces
and column sent out by Sherman in
pursuit. 1t was part Of Sherman's
programme to intercept Hardee at
Broad river, and it was the impression
at Savannah when the boat left that
his plans had succeeded. The Sd Ar
my Corps were dispatched in pursuit
in the afternoon of the 2lst. He also
reports that heavy cavalry force, I'M
der Fitzpatrick, started to the south of
Savannah to release a number of pris-
oners who are supposed to be confined
at some point in the southwestern por-
ton of the State. Other important
movements were also in progress.
Gen. Sherman says he has been
through Mississippi twice and through
Georgia that he will go through
South Carolina, and leave a wake be-
hind him as broad as that which mark
ed his path through Georgia that
he will go through North Carolina al
so, Richmond being his destination.