The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-28

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the Gre... " ar Oh the other side Of tie AZ
i:>nsic. Cn he fo-D.s day Gen. shermans
grea. aaabasis, whics, the I.a.1a hasi a. las.
ceased to eaN retreat, ended in lis gain
lLg The sea-ccas. Of Georgia, and restoring
lis GoiIl,tiu1l cations with SIS owr Govern
meni uy stor:niag For. Meanis.er a. the
mouth Of the Ogeehee; or tho latter day tie
mere rerlna;.. which he lel: OF lis 'fagi.lve
army ,inaer Gen. Thomas &c defend East
tennessee, after alluslng The ga4lail. Gen.
Hood for & month with dim hopes OF the
capture cf Nashville ana is vas. stores,
anu the eo0seq queut recon. uest Of ali Ter
nessee, AMI command or the Cum barlanu
river, iss .ea from rs lines al Nashville,
and, in d battle lasting two days, complete
~ defeated those from whom fisherman
is supposed ~ some 20 have fed. The two
events are nearly siin ul.aneCas, and .oubt.
less witLou. design.
Op the 18th tie Federal admira. &. Beau
fort received news ot tie arrival OF Sher-
man $ army, IL excellent bea1.h and sp.r
is, within aiew la:ies o. Savannah. On
the 10Th the intelligence had doubtless
reached Nashville ty telegraph, and Gen.
Thomas knew thai the motive for Getain-
ing Gen Hoods whole army n the West
I'll. General Sherman's march should be
beyond the reach CT in; Ary from ;hat car
ter no longer existed, and that he might
venture az engagement. The consequence
before Nashville really amounts 70 route,
as is reported, their army of the Wes; will
have been disposed ofby The smaller part
Of the federal army OF the West, while its
main body, under the mos. brilliant ofthe
federal Generals, transferred 20 the Allan
tic coast, Will form a second grta: army Of
.ne East, ready 10 cooperate closely with
the plans OF the coInmandegin- cEiet, by
conducting a winter campaign il States
where 8 winter campaign IS cutie feasible
a campa gn which must tel tearfully on
the results OF tie mex, spring campaign IN
Virginia.
Gen. Sherman with his case or the sea
coas. VIII soon be IL . position TO commence
Northward march on The railway sys-
tenn, uniting Richmond with Augusta, Of
much less dit character than that
which carried him during The spring OF
this year from Chattanooga to Atlanta
And should be succeed, the effect viii pro-
baby he TO crush the gallant ' rgi nian
army Of Gen. Lee out OF the Intervening
States between the Army Of the Potomac
and the Army OF GeorgIa-the upper and
lower Jaw OF the military double lever
Augusta, too, is the military workshop of
the Confederacy, and the Confederate Gov
ern,neIt vii! probably think il almost as
necessary TO defend i, as 70 defend Rich
ynona. We should expect then, to hear that
al the remains of Gen. Hoods army would
be summoned to garrison and defend Au-
gusta, so that Tennessee will be probably
set free from any invasion more formida-
bic than that Of cavalry raids. Thus the
escape OF Gen. Sherman from Atlanta
will, probably, as the Times remarked, be
1.-The turning point of the war. But this
turning point will consis: in providing
the North with double instead Of single
military lever for cracking that hard nut,
the Richmond army Of Gen. LeA and yet
S0YtnnpQ
West Brighter than they have ever been
before.
With the Savannah river opened TO the
Federal navy, rs it now must be, whether
Savannah itself was taken or not; when the
las: mail left; with formidable Federal
army, under the most brilliant of their
Generals, acting in this new quarter in
concert with the gunboats which have al
ways achieved SO much for the Northern
cause; with a disaster so terrible in Ten
nessee, where the Contederates were hoping
10 retrieve The loss Of Atlanta; with new
naval and military expedition under Ad
miral Porter and Gen. Batter. dispatched
70 some new point in the Confederacy,
probably Wilmington, The sole remaining
port for the blockade runners; with Rich
nlond closely pressed throughout the win
ter, and aprospect of double pressure, even
if il still holds out, before another harvest
i. is probable enough that the deep gloom
| which oyerspreed the Coniederacy after
the fall of Atlanta will return in double
intensity, and that the Confederate Govern
inent may have to deal throughout the
coming winter no: only with forlnda BILE
enemies, but still more formidable sup
porters. All Mr.. Davis predictions have
been terribly falsified. Gen. Sherman, in
stead ofgiving to the world "a new edition
Of the disastrous retreat from Moscow"
has marched quite unopposed over three
hundred aud fifty miles Of hostile State TO
commence new and more menacing cam
paign. Gen. Hood, instead of recovering
Tennessee and Kentucky, has been out
maneuvered and crushed by a foe he des-
pissed. The Georgian campaign OF the Con-
federacy has ended rs fatally for it as the
vicksburg campaign. In both cases Mr..
Davis was careful beforehand to explain
the momentous character of the issue; in
both cases his own supporters will be apt
to let his words, while he still hoped for
success, far outweigh the words in which
he tries to depreciate the significance OF
failure. 1t is probable, we think, that the
coming winter will test the mettle of .the
Southern peoples resistance as 1t has never
been tested yet.
On the minds of the North the effect of
these great events can scarcely be less pow
erful. Perhaps the most striking ilnmedi.
ate effect will be a new confidence, not on
ly in the ability Of those Generals whom,
after painful sitting. the war has at length
brought to the top, but in ability to cope
with the particular form of difficulty most
overpowering to the imagination-thev vast
spaces over which their strategic combina-
tions must extend. General Grant and
General Sherman have both shown their
power not only to maneuver, but to cper-
ate on plan of unprecedented magnitude
TO knit together the effect Of operations
hundreds Of miles apart, to make victories
| in Tennessee tell immediately on the cam
paign in Mississippi, victories in Mississip-
pi react again on the campain in Tennessee
and successful occupation Of the north
east OF Georgia the stepping-stone of a
more hopeful invasion Of Virginia. Gen.
Grant and Gen. Sherman have both shown
| that mere space is not much against them
as every one believed-that they are not
limited to prickirg few isolated holes, as
it were, in different parts Of the Confeder-
acy, but they can build mp their successes
even when divided by the greatest breadth
Of country. Tho North viii not forget
that Gen. Grant was no sooner appointed
to the command Of the Army Of the Ten
nessee after the disaster at Chiekamauga
than within month he turned the tables
| -, y~to cv~oror<b ~ tho holm Of bo rryoa