Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-02-01
-shermo5u,a ararch through Georgia.

through the Empire State. We make the
following extract:
I Newspapers occasionally picked up disclos
ed an Intense commotion. Governor Brown
had ordered levy c, naasse Of the whole able
bodied militia and large force was already
concentrated at Macon. Proclamations, des.
patches, and notices to assemble were in eve
ry column, and the sole order Of the day
Although Kilpatrick,s cavalry, went into the
suburbs, they did not attack Macon, as indeed
there were many reasons why we should not,
but turned East instead, destroying the rail
road The iron was.heavy, partly of the U
and partly. of the pattern, laid on stringers
of pitch-pine, supported-by cross-ties of the
same material The divisions, working in
turn, where there was rail fence at hand,
piled. that on the track and burned it. The
iron, kept down by the spikes, and having no
room to expand lengthways, kinked sideways
to such an extent as efectually to destroyit.
Where there was no fence, the ties were piled
up and burned, and the rails so heated as to
bend of their. own weight. all sav-inills near
enough to the road to be used in rebuilding
it, were destroyed. Depots and water-tanks
shared the same fate. Making easily an
average of about twelve miles day, on the
2Sth the whole army was together, beyond
the Oconee. General Sherman now came
from the left wing, and travelled with the
18th corps. He seemed in excellent spirits.
"Spleudid country to loaf fin,n be called it.
And it was. The first day out the country
was sterile or annihilated, and We looked with
apprehension to our supply wagons. The
second showed little corn, an occasional
beef, and few sweet potatoes. The third
day brought us to plenty. We turned out
OF. :oragers, and from that time until We
reached the coast, there was not day when
corn, fodder, beef, pork, and great luscious
sweet potatoes, were not abundantly within
reach, with occasional lots of salt, and bar
three-ff:hs rations of bread, coffee, salt, su-
gar and soap, and our ayoirdupois steadily
increased.
Not that allthcse things were to be had
for asking. Not only what We we're inquest
OF, but every thing that could be, was hidden
with all imaginable arti6ce. No use. If
stock or hogs were -driven to the swamp, or
corn hid under pile of shucks, or potatoes
under barn floor; was pointed out by the
inevitable nigger. Carefully buried, and
strewn with leaves, some horses foot was
sure to sink in the new earth, and dggers
were at work in minute. Whatever was
found in this way, if not eatable, was apt to,
be destroyed, and Sbooks, clothes, beddins
and much else that, in its proper place. would
not have been disturbed, was every day lost in
this manner. 1t was both sad aud comic&l.
The march was IS pescesble So picnic.
The militia were hurrying by way OF Them
asyille and Albcny,'to be before US at Savan-
nah, to which we had no particular objection
In our front was some eXtempOre cavalry,
which nobodyever saw except the advance
guard. The weather was about such as we
have in September, aud the little tents which
the men carry were hardly ever set up.
As far as Gordon, we used the country,
pretty rou ghly. The Provost Marshal burn
ed all the mills, cotton gins and presses, and
shot the aoumds. Tue stagglers burned al
the unoccupied houses, anl made free with
the rest. 1t touched me sadly that our pro-
gress could be traced for miles by smoke ris-
ing above the trees, and, that We could trace
in the same way. TIE column on either hand.
But at Gordon, orders issued denouncing the
death penalty for firing any building or en-
tcring an inhabited house, TO the gratiiica
ton Of the army aud with excellent effect.
From Milledgsville, November q, Gen
Fitzpatrick was sent tc cut the railroad be-
tween Milen and Augusta, and, if possible,
rescue our prisoners confined near Aillen
At Waynesboro he had smart fight with
Wheeler's cavalry, but cut the railroad ai
that point aud captured train. The priS-
oners, poor fellows, had been whished oil to
Savannah aud out on the Florida Railroad.
The close of the first week in December
brought US near the coast. 4 sandy loan,
VARYING to the extremes of barrenaess and
fertility. and propqrtionataly settled, extends
from Atlanta 10 the coast. The woods are
almost altogether pine, with an occasional
growth of large trees, but noT here eapproach-
ing the great Gear wood pineries on our
Northern lakes. The wEcle conrIry is ln-
tersperscd with swamps. nbieh, as No near
ed tie Sea, Increased IN rumLer and extent
Bu, little cotton was fund on oach pianta--
ZION, the Law iolbidGing to raise mqre. East
of the Oconee there was sensible change
in the vegetation. In tie swamps cypress
often appeared, ard we hailed On all sides
cmlryo palul-lesf fars,' half doxeii leaves,
sometimes three or four feet high, growing
independently from one root. In the. doo:
wards we're immense live oaks, which Thought
finer shade trees than the best elms OF New
England, to which. they arc not unlike. The
leaf, however, is very small. The sorghum,
whicth had entertained US hitherto, was Eow
replaced by Louisiana cane, though We no.
where passed sugar plantation-for instance,
one with sugar house.
As we neared Savannah, We, fer the first
timc, found trees feled in the swamps to'cb'
struct our progress. A few houses we're l:urn-
ed by way Of retaliation.
A Picture FOR HIsron1.-A letter from
Washington, North Carolina, gives an account
OF tho desolstion of that town, and the fol-