Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-01-06
WHAT sHnaMAr DID n n1r.IEDeEv1rlR.


WHAT SHERMAN DID At mIrIRDGEyHAE.
But few Of the troops were marched through the
| city. Some two or three regiments were detailed
under the orders OF the engineers destroy certain
| property designated by the the General command
ing The magazines, arsenals, depot buildings, fac.
| tories Of one kind and another, with storehonses
containing large amounts Of Government propertyf
and some seventeen hundred bales Of cotton wire
burned Private houses were respected everywhere
even those of noted Rebels, and heard of no i'm
stance of pilage or insult to the inhabitants One
two of the latter, known to have been in the rb,
Ell army, were made prisoners of war, but the SIr-
geons at the hospitals, the Principal at the Insane
Asylum, and others, expressed their gratitude thas
such perfect order was maintained throughout the
city,
General Sherman is All the. Executive Mansion, its
former occupant having with extremely bad grace
fed from his distinguished visitor, taking with hIn
the entire furniture ct the building, As General
Sherman travels with Haenage,t roll OF blankets,
and haEersack full OF hardtack, whichisas complete
for life out in the open air in palace this dis
courtesy of Governor Brown was not serious con-
venien &C.
General Sherman 8 opening move In the present
campaign has been successful in the highest degree
At frat moving his army in three columns, with a
eolnmn Of cavalry on his extreme right upon eccen-
tre lines he diverted the attention OF the enemy so
that he concentrated his forces at extreme points,
Macon and Augusta, leaving unimpededthe progress
which does not yet appearit is not the purpose OF
the General to spend his time before fortified Cities
nor yet to cucumber his wagons with wounded men,
His instructions to Fitzpatrick We're to demon
strate against Macon, getting within five miles OF
the city.
FIGHT
The roads each column we're to follow were care
fully designated, the number Of miles each day 70 be
travelled aRd the points ct rendezvous were given
at certain date. All of these conditions were full
filed to the letter. Slocum, with the Twentieth
Corps, arrived at Milledgevile on the I'D Instant
proceeding Davis, with the Fourteenth Corps, one
day. On the same day Fitzpatrick struck the Macon
and Western road, destroying the bridge at Walnut
Creek The day following, Howard, with the tIf
teenth and Seventeenth Corps, arrived at Gordon;
and began the destruction of the Georgia Central
railroad.
1t was near here that the most serious of the
campaign occurred to this date. General Molcot,
in command of detachment OF cavalry and a brig
ade of infantry was thrown forward TO Grlswod-
vile, towards Macon, for demonstratlve purposes
merely. The enemy, some vethousand strong, ad-
Yaucea upon our troops, who had thrown uptempo-
rary breastworks, with section OF battery IN po-
sition. The cavalry fell slowly back on either flank
of the brigade, protecting them from attack IN flank
and The rebels are composed OF militia chlet-
", although portion OF Hardees S oiu corps was
present, having been brought up from Savannah
With that ignorance of danger common to new
troops, the Rebels rushed upon our veterans with
the greatest fury. They were received with grape
shot and nusketry al point blank range, our soldiers
firing cooy while shouting derislyey to the qulyer-
ing columns to come on, as they thought The
whole thing a nice joke. The rebels resumed the
attack; but with the same fatal results and were
soon IN fnI fight, leaving more than three hundred
dead on the field Our loss was some forty killed
and wounded, while their killed. wounded and pris-
oners are estimated to exceed two thousand i've
hundred. A pretty severe lesson they have re-
| ceiYed.
NEAR ToNAn1E STATION, on THE
GEORGIA CENTRAL RAILROAD, Nov Y.
Since writing the above the army has moved for
ward all along the ti11e. Tine rebels seem 10 have
understood, but too late, that it was not sherman
intention to make q serious attack upon Macon
They have, however, succeeded in getting Wheeler
| across the Oconee at a point below the railroad
bridge We first became aware OF their presence
in our front by the destruction Of several bridges a.
| cross Buffalo Creek, on the two roads leading TO
Sandersyie, over which were advancing the Iwen-
tieth and Fourteenth Corps
We were delayed but few hours. The passage
also contested by the rebel cavalry under heel
er, and they fought front all the way, and into
| the streets OF Sandersvle. The twentieth Corps
had the advance, deployIng regiment as skIrmiSh-
era, forming the remainder of brigade in line OF
battle on either side of the read The movement
was executed in the handsomest manner, and was
SO effectnal as 10 llpede the march OF the col
umn in the slightest degree, although the roll of
I
twenty odd killed and wounded.
| As the Twentieth Corps entered the town they
were met by the Fourteenth, whose head OF column
arrived at the same moment While these Two
Corps had met with the Instructions above mention
/ ed, the army under General Howard were attempt
| ing to throw pontoon across the Oeonee at the
| Georgia Central Railroad bridge. Here they met
| force under the command ofGeneral Wayne which
was composed OF portion on Wheelerss cavalry
militia, and band of eonyicts who had been hbera.
ted from the penitentiary upon the condition that
4 they would JOIN the army.
/ The most of these desperadoes have been taken
prisoners dressed in their State prison clothing
General Sherman has turned them loose, believing
/ that Governor Brown had not got the tuil benefits
1 of his iberaity. The rebels did notmake remark
ably stern defence of the bridge, for Howard was
| able to cross his army yesterday, and commenced
breaking railroad again today In tact all OF the ar
my, except one corps, are engaged IN THIS same work
Morgan, with his army, was hardly able to reach
/ this point when he met General Hardee, who has
| managed to get around here from Macon. Our
troops struck the railroad at this Station few hours
| after the frightened band escaped
THANKSGIVING DAY KEPT.
/ We had been told that the country was very poor
east of the Oconee, but experience has been q
delightful gastronomic contradiction OF the state
| ment The cattle trains are getting so large that
we find difficulty in driving them along Thanks
giving day was very generally observed III the army
the troops scornng chickens IN the pentltude OF ur-
keys with which they had supplied themselves
Vegetables of all kinds, and in unlimited quantl
ties, were at hand aud the soldiers gave thanks as
soldiers may, and as merry only soldiers can be-.
In truth SO far as the qualification of the stomach
goes, the troops are pursuing continuous thanks
giving.
In addition to fowls vegetables and meats, many
obtain delicious syrup made from sorghum, which
is cultivated all the plantations and stored away
4 in large troughs and hogsheads. The mills here
and there furnish fresh supplies OF -four and meal,
and we hear little nothing of hard tack that
4 terror to weak mastieation. Over the sections OF
councry lately traversed ] find very little
cultivation OF cotton. The commands OF
Davis appear to have been obeyed, and our large
drove of cattle are turned nightly into the immense
fields of unpatherad corn to eat their fiji, while the