Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-01-19


oE the line 81 the Memphis AMI CharIes-
ION Railroad last Spring, all that region
has bean In the gessesaiea 81 Forrest
ard wilI oontinueIn II so l1ng AS Hood
skall bold the lina ol he Tsnaessee. De
dacsiag gmall aera In lhe rear Of MsEar
pills, Randolph, Fort Pillow and john
aoayille, Federal occupation has here
fore, lost, OF the soil of Tennessee, slnes
the Grst day Of the year just ended, SCREEN
Thousand square miles. Ringoli wasi the
advanced post Of tbs Federal army OF the
hrst day Of January, lsjl. Tat punt.
On The uarthsra borieF o. Georgia, H.
The aa1aaeetl peal eF she Federal asmy
on the first day Of January, 1865. So
far aa that part oil the Rela 10 concerned,
sha position OF the belligerents IL preaise
Nv The same ~ IL vas Twelve months ago
Savannah has, however, been gaiRcd du-
ring tbs paas year /; and, wlth tho lpxer
part OF the awampy peninsula 0n which
it Stands, gives tie Federal arfns. ~ q
asult Of lha years. wosk, gaia % abaus
two hlaaTea square miles Of the s1ii ai
Georgia.
Ia South Carolina invasion has gaiaed,
siacs last New Years Day, little terri
tory. From Beaufort, In that State. IL
has mada no progress whatever. The
attack on Charleston has left IL, howes-
Ter, In occupation, TO. day, Of Morris
Island and Soma smaller bodies OF land
that, all together, represent territorial
gain of about oas hundred squaEe miles.
In Nersh Caroliaa, rae Federal arms
bad lost, aimee The beginning Of the year
1864, large region between AIberiaas.e
and pamlica Sounds. Lieutenant 0ush-
ing's exploit brough back thai distriea 10
Dir. Lineoln's Fals, save only small area
between Washiugton and plymouth. Loss-
es or gains uf soil there was mona kaisa.
where In North Carolina daring The rear
which has Lat just ended, and We Euay,
therefore, conclude that, IN that State,
/ Federal occupation stanls to-day exactly
~ il did on the frss dag Of 1864.
! On the James, Grants lines ineloss
come accessions Of soil, acquired since
last Sev Years day, by Fed9al occapa-
ton. Extending from the Junction Of
tho York with ths Jau1es, to Bermuda
Hundred, aud thence 20 d position three
miles south OF Petersburg, thas gain OF
territory represents less than iiTe haadred
Il square miles. Tho soil thus acquired,
II has, however, been obtained at the east
4 Of the abandonment of the line Of the
| Rnpidan. West of the naTigabic waters
II OF Eastern Virginia, and aast of the Blue
i. Ridge, the ground thus abandoned, do,
H dreling circle of twenty miles around
i. Alexandria, includes an AGRA of about
!. 8 500 miles. On the FIRST of January,
4 IS6l, the Confederate oui-p0sGs ia the
H Valley Of the Shenandoah, were ut liar,
Il risoburg; they are at Harrisonburg to
day. la the Valley, then, inyasioa ac.
eupies, substantially, the ground it hell
+ twelve months ago. On the James il hai
II gained five hundred square miles; ant
! thus deducted from tho area Of the terri
] tory abandoned aorih Of the RApidan
/ leaves an aetaai loss 10 tho area Of Fed
I eFal occupation in Virginia. to the exten
of three thousand square miles.
] In Texas the work Ut Invasion has beer
, abandoned, 10 Louisiana the Fedora
occupation has surrendered possession
I of ten thousand miles. In Arkansas tht
fortunes of war, within the last year, hav,
!. Withdrawn from the domination of Gen,
sral Steele forty thousand square miles
In Missouri, in Mississippi, aud in Ala.
bama, the lines of invasion stand to-day
! with the exception of the gain OF the out
Er harbor Of Mobile, in the positions
!. which they held on the FIRST of January
J, 1864. In Tennessee, Federal occupation
has lest, in The country between tbs Ten
nessee aud the Mississippi rivers, sevcr
: thousand square miles, In Georgia, in
! Fasion has, Wiibin the past year, acquires
dominion over about twa hundred squrt
. Riles and in South Calolina has &C
. 4uired, since the FIRST day of 1864, terri
. sUrial jurisdiction ovdr one hundret
! llsquare miles. Ia North Carolina Me-
J Linc5in'a rule presents, to-day, no chang
of area siuee tbe opemrg of last year. Il
4 Virginia, Federal occupation, having ex
1 changed thirty. fogr hundred sqaar
miles north CT tho RApjlan for Eve hun
J bred above tile water on the james, pre-
! scntt on its yenrss work Of blood, tbre
! thousand square miles Of actual loss.
I On the eastern side pf the Aiis$issipp
River We see thus, thai, notwithstanding
! gain Of two humareH aquare miles i
Georgia, and Of two hundred in Sout
Carolina, the miscarriage in Virginia
! and the aban lonment.of Western Team
esseee, place Mr., Ltnepin's occur alton o
Southern soil at loss, on the opera
! tions Of the twelve months just ended, o
! about ten thousand square. TN th
! western eide of tho Mississippi Rive:
/ the details gisen above show the territor
! ENCLOSED By Federal domination, 10 hav
been reduced, sinea the 6rst of january
! 1864, to the enormoas extent of Eft
j thousand square miles.