Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-03-16
DODGEvIIIE, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 1865.
The March through the Carolinas.
The following significant article is from

The following significant article is from
the Raleigh Progress, Of Jan. 21st.
Sherman is in motion, and according
to refugees from Savannah, has force
Of eighty thousand men, Nor is his ar
my loose mob, prowling on the country
to oppress friend as we'll as foe. Il IS an
army of discipline, vigor, action. With !!
Savannah and Beaufort, S. G., as base,
he moves north with the sun, and already
Charleston and Columbia begin to feel
the oppression. But will he come to Co
lumbia with those eighty thousand men ?
Yes, If he wants to do so he will, and
even further into the bowels of the land
Terry is on our own coast-has Fort
Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear, and
will soon, we think, have Wilmington
He probably has twenty to forty thou
sand men. Suppose they combine their
forces, Terry and Sherman, we must set
them down at not less than about one
hundred and twenty thousand men. And
they will move on with the sun, and be-
fore the orb that lights the world shall
stand erect in the heavens it is more than
probable that the federal flag will fly
over Charleston, Wilmington, Columbia
and Raleigh! Yes, Raleigh too! Grant
will stay where he is and thus keep Gen
eral Lees army in the vice that has held
it for the last ten months, and Terry and
Sherman will move on. We see nothing
to stop them or pre- 7ent their getting to
Raleigh, where they can open communi-
cation with Newbern by rail, distance
about one hundred and eighty miles, and
then demonstrate or raid towards Green's
borough or Danville at pleasure. New
bern would be the water base, Raleigh
the inland base, and with Grant on the
James and Sherman at Raleigh, both in
command of large armies all transpor-
tations cut off and supplies exhausted,
then. Lees army would be in a tight
place. And unless Sherman can be met
and whipped he will probably come, if
not with the April showers, certainly
with the buds and blossoms of May.
He travels rapidly. We had an army
that mi ght have checked Sherman but
since the President took it's commander
from it and put it under second rate
, brigadier, and sent it on that wild goose
chase to the blue banks Of the Ohio, it is
, we'll nigh done for. Hood marched into
Tennessee and marched out again, but
, his army is gone! That is the morale
Of the great army Of the West, as it ex
listed under Albert Sidney Johnston, un-
, der Beauregard and j. E. Johnston is
gone, and Hood is crouched down in
/ North Alabama with nothing but a small
mass Of demoralized fragments. There
5 is very little more fight in that army
what there was in it for good has been
frittered away where no good could be
1 accomplished, and the people of that sec
tion have no disposition to fill it's ranks,
: they think the war has lasted about long
: enough, especially if they are called on
f to 60. These are sad reflections, but we
t have to deal with things as they are.
n Sherman will press forward. No one
a can give us good reason for believing
e be will be hurled, back, and empty brag-
= SGuOCleI lS IlO lOilStl CUII6Gt
t What then? Sherman will, in all hu-
Y man probability, be here with the spring,
E ard to stay. The Governor, now SO pla-
. cid and calm, SO full Of fun and coarse
: jests, will have to fly to some obscure vii
e lage as refuge; while the Legislature,
the peoples chosen representatives., are
t now assembled here, no doubt, for the
? last time during the continuance of the
! present war. From this obscure 'head-
quarters in some wayside village inn,
his Excellency may call them to meet in
Buncome, on the top Of Table Rock, or
3 at some point in that neutral territory
beyond the Cowan but we have not the
a shadow Of doubt but the present body
a has met in Raleigh for the last time, and
if the members desire to do anything to
: save the people Of their State from the
ruin that is to follow the events that we
t have foreshadowed, they must act now.
q Has the Governor no farewell word for
S his ''dear people?' the Legislature no
parting blessing for suffering constitu-
ents Are we to look On these august
S dignitaries to-day, knowing that to-mor-
: row they depart to be seen and known no
more, by us, forever The people will
stop where they are, and if Sherman
t comes, here and throughout the State
generally, they will do as they have done
7 in Savannah, make the best they can Of
condition Of things they could not help.
But if we have no armies to meet ar
J. mics, why continue the unequal contest
If there be those in our Legislature who
, believe there is no. salvation for the
people of North Carolina but in an appeal
for their rights under the old constitu-
tion, let them speak out, for the time
has come to discuss these questions
AMI if there be those who believe that
the only way to save US from abolition
negro equality, servile insurrections and
a general upheaving ofsociety, but res
! toration of the old government, under the
constitution Of our fathers, let them pre-