The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1865-01-11


the Yankees, who were advancing on Au.
gusta. General Shorman's second step in
this campaign will havo been equally sue
cesslul with the first il he Is able 70 cross
| the Ugecchoe tomorrow without much op-
position. Davis and Kilparick's move
mcnt has been blind in order TO facilitate
| tho passage over the OsNcchce OF the main
body Of tho army, which for two days past
has bcen marching on parallel roads south
of the railroad. ..-t....n
Thus far we have reason TO believe that
the rebels are ignorant ~ or principal
movement, aud are trembling with fear
that Augusta is our objective.
Fitzpatrick is doing the same work he 40.
complished with such high honor when
covering our right flank in the early days
! of the campaign His column now acts IA
a curtain upon the extreme left, through
which the enemy may in vain attempt to
penetrate.
The most pathetic scenes occur upon our
line of march daily aud hourly. Thousands
OF negro women join the column, some car
rying household truck; others, and many of
them there are, who bear the heavy bur
den of children In their arms, while older
boys aud girls plod by their sides, Az.
these women and children are ordered hack,
hcart.rcnding though il may be TO refuse
them libor,y. They won't go. Ono begs
that she may go to see her husband aud
children at Savannah. Long years ago she
was force from them aud sold. Another
has heard that her boy was in Macon, and
she is done gone with grief goin' on four
years"
But the majority accept the advent Of
the Yankees as the fulfllmcnt Of the mille-
nial prophesics. The "day of jubilee" the
hope and prayer of lifetime has come.
| They cannot be ma 20 to understand that
they must remain behind, and they are sat
isfed only when Con. Sherman tell them
as he does every day-that wo shall co,ner
back for them somo time, aud that they
must bo patient until the proper hour of
delvcrance comes.
The other day woman with child in
her arms was working her way along
amongst tho teams and crowds of cattle
aud horsemcn, An officer called to her
kindly Where are you going. auntyf"
Sho looked up iuto his iaco with hope.
full bcsoeching look, and replied:
"Iso gwine whar yonso gwine nassa."
At u house few miles from Milledgc.
willie we halted for an hour. In an old hut
found an old negro and his wife, both of
them over GO years old. In the talk which
ensued nothing was said which led me to
suppose that either OF them was anxious to
leave their mistress, who, 10y the way, was
a sullcn, cruel-looking woman, when all at
once tho old negress Strengthened herself
up, and her face, which moment before
was almost stupid In its expression, as.
swmcd fierce, almost dcvcish aspect.
Pointing her shining black finger at tho
old man crouchcd in the corner Of the fro
place, she hissed out: "What for you sits
iar You sposo wait sixty years for nut
tn? Don't yer see do door open. Use
follow my child; not stay. Yes nodder
day goes long wild desc people, yes ssr,
| walks til | drop in my tracks." A moro
terrible sight never beheld. | can think
of nothing to compare with it, except Char
iottc Cushmans Mog Merrilies leembraft
only could have painted the scene, with
its dramatic surroundings.
1t was near this place that several factoI
ries were burned. 1t was odd to see the
delight of the negroes at the destruction
of places known only to thcm as taskhouses
where they had groaned under the lash.
ACROSS THE oGEEcHEE.
STATION OF GEORGIA CENTRAL Il. r.
November. 30.
With tho exception of the Fourteenth
corps our, army is across the Ogeechee, and
without lighting battle. The river il q
line of great strength to the rebels, and
they might have made its passage costly
effort for us, but they have been oUtwitted
and outmaueuvercd. | am more convinced
than ever that il Gen. Sherman intends
taking his army TO the scaboard, it is evil
IDENTIFY his policy to avoid battle, or any
contest which will delay him in the estab-
lshmcnt of u new base OF operations and
and supplies; il he is able to es-
tablish this new base and at the same
time destroy all the lines of cOmmum-
ication from the rebel armies with the
great cities, SO that they will sbe as much
isolated as it those strongholds were in our
hands, he will have accomplished the great.
est strtegic victory in the war, and all tho
more welcome because bloodless. Macon,
Augusta, Savannah or Charleston are Of no
special value to us, except that either ono
OF tho latter may be useful as a base OF
supplies. One and all of them are of rho
most vital importance TO the rebels, as the
SOURCE from or thr ,ugh which they draw
the rstores or ammunition and the largest
part OF their supplies.
We have heard to-day hOm Fitzpatrick
and from Million. Fitzpatrick made splen-
did march, fighting Wheeler all way to Way
ngsborough destroying the railroad bridge
crossing Briar Creek, between Augusta
and Milens II is with real grief that
write be was unable to accomplish the 70.
! haoS VI Ohi IAtoohNios UpPctlo tttot
for some time past the rebels have been
removing our soldiers from Millen; the off,
GERS have been sent 10 Columbia, s. G. and
the privates further south, somewhere
on tho Gulf Railroad.
THE PASSAGE OF THE o0EEcHEE.
We have had very little difficulty in
crossing the Ogeeches The TwentietlI
corps moved down the railroad destroying
it to the bridge, The Seventeenth corPs
covered Tile river at this point, where n
light bridge was only partially destroyed.
II was easily repaired. SO that the infan-
try and cavalry could pass over it, whiio
The wagons aud artillery used the pontoons.
The Ocheegee is about sixty yards in
width at this point. 1t is approached on
the northern or western side through
swamps, which would be imrassible wero
it not for the sandy soil, which packs solid
when the water covers the roads, although
in places there are treacherous quicksands,
viii h we are obliged TO corduroy.
Is A roo. es,r
Soon the fog, which settles like blanket
over the swamps and forests OF the rivev
bottoms, shut down upon the scene. and
SO dense and dark was it that torches wers
of very little use, and men wzre directed