The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-01-27

Importance Of Fort Fisher 80 The Ieb.
elS-HOW they rejOiCed over BatleF's
failure-aud what they said sheT-
man could have done u Wilmington
had been captured.
On learning of Buffers failure stFort
Fisher, the rebels we're jubilant; and
in their ejoicing amid tangled security,
they made many admissions, which,
now that the place is ia our hands,
will be Of value to us, and dam
aging 90 them The Columbia South
Carolinian, in its great JOY, exclaimed:
Even surprising General Sherman TO
have no confederate forces IN his front
his march through a country noted for
centuries for It's impeuetrable sWamps
and intricate water courses, and where
no provisions % sustain man or beast
ought 10 lie found, would, through these
natural causes alone, be slow and pain
ful TO his troops, and discOur8ging TO
their msrtial ardor The most praCti-
cal route Of all, through the valley form
ed 10y the Cambahee and Ashepoo rivers,
supposiug the enemys forces to have
passed Coosa wahatchie and clasic POGO
Ialiao, presents serious difficultes-in.
Vulnerable little streams to be crossed
heavy, miserable roads to be travelled
over, and but few scattered home
steads 10 be plundersd. la front OF
Branchville, which We supposed 10
be General Shermsn's FIRST objective
point his troops will be forced to
uncover in small numbers. 1t is
estimated that not more than ten
thousand men can, with any prospect
of advantage, be placed in order of
combat there thew viii have 10 effect
one of the most difficult river passages
in the State; the troops must approach
the Edisto over an impenUtTable swamp,
and after having landed in safety on
the other bank, another swamp has to
be passed, under the entirely uncovered
FIRE ofartillery and unerriug musketry
from behind formidable Qualifications
In whatever direction he may derign 20
turn from the coast to penetrate the
interior, his difficulties will be as great
upon several routes much increased.
Should he divide his forces, and send
them In different directions, to veil his
purpose and blind our commanders, he
may find that such combinations are
easier carried out in the level interior
Of Georgia than on the coast Of South
Carolina. Topography has done so
much for us, and the unpropitous rainy
season viii do a. much more. that
through these causes alone we consi6-
er our dangers much lessened
1t may sound a little strange to hear
the "chivalry," who so recently de.
spised al aid but their own strong arm,
invinoibie daring and unprecedented
dash, and who were to cut and destroy
the Northern vandals' With bowie
knives now sheltering themselves be.
hind impenetrab.e Businesses, and re.
lying only upon the bouuttcs of nature
20 do that from which they shrink
themselves bat nevertheless, Il Is true
that they are doing this very thing
The wall OF bayonets, sabres, &c talked
about at the beginning Of the war have
Eecreted themselves behind marshes,
rivers, and juuglesi and are crying out
70 these 10 project their precious per-
sons, So tho wicked are expected 20 call
out for the rocks to fall upon aud shell,
ter them, on the last day Of sublunary
things.
The chiyalric Carolinians have fall
faith in the protection afforded by these
obstacles of nature, and doubtless hnd
them much more convenient than that
Phalanx-wsll they used TO express
it-of bayonets and bowie knives but
then even that shield would not have
been effective, would not have saved
the sacred soil" of Carolina, had not
Butter failed
ut would not have been thus, says
the South Caroiinian, had the federal
armada taken Fort Fisher, and Dlth Il Fil Z
usiagton While ne at Columbia and Nv :