Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-01-14

Failure of the War in 1864.

Iie ocupied Brownsville and We were
old that tho rebellion had been stranelcd
n Texes What are IRE facts now Ho
has withdrawn nearly oil his troops from
he State and the whole line of the Rio
5randc is again open for the trausporta.
ion, TO neutral ports, Of Confeder ate cot
ton. In this one of its great movements
the war, during the past year, has proved
a failure.
A Federal expedition moved up Red
River. A feet Of gunboats led the van.
A aotilla of;fansports followed with reg-
ments, brigades, divisions and cooper.
atiDg armies moved overland under sys
tenn OF crushing concentration. Louisiana
was,we were assured, about to be "olean.
ed out" Texas to be overrun, Arkansas
bought into subjugation +! And what came
of all those high promises The invasion,
army and navy, was hurled back in disas.
ter; some Of the vessels captured or destroy.
ed large masses Of the troops killed ,woup.
ded or taken prisoners; and the whole
followed up in hot pursuit until the rem.
nants succeeded in reaching the Mississippi.
In this great movement Of the past year
the war has proved a failure.
Sherman, at the beginning Of tho past
year, gathered an army at ticksburg.-
Having moved 10 the eastw ard, 6e reached
Jackson. He pressed the Confederates
back until he reached the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad at Meridian. 4 operating ex-
peditlon of cavelry, designed to feed his
army from the rich prairies Of Eastern
Mississippi and Central Alabama, having
been driven back, the Federal chief retrac.
ed his steps. Harrassed on the way by
Stephen Lees horse, he returned to Vicks.
burg and, after a march of upward of two
hundred and fifty miles, presented the
country with another instance in which
the war has proved, in 1864, a failure.
bhoi uiah ooiuihCHCeu MS AuYauCc Into
Northern Georgia during The ye' arust
closed. Fighting and maneuvering, he
pressed on from Ringgod to Dalton, from
Dalton to Kingston, from Kingston to
Marietta; and finally at sacrifice Of prob
ably fifty thousand men, planted the Fed
eral flag within the deferces of Atlanta.
Whether or not he may have learned from
the movement of tho Confederates that his
Operations from Atlanta had become i'm.
practicable, need not be considered here
but the actual fact is beyond question that,
having reached that city, he has declared
It's possession, of all the places, for which
he had fought on the way to it, ofno avail.
Even brilliant successdoes, thus, not re.
deem the operations of Gen. Sherman, in
Northern Georgia, from the conclusion
which declares all the grea. movements of
the war in 1864, practically failures.
Hunter moved last Spring against Ly ch.
oure' Ills advance was designed as a
cooperative movement for the reduction
OF Richmond, and was heralded as one of
the finishing touches of the work Of subiu-
cation. And what were the features of
that expedition p! Early buried upon its
rear, it could not retrace its st cps but,
seeking safety in fight, retreated, hungry,
exhausted ,apd demoraized, to the Kama.
wha Here again, one of the great move.
ments Of the campaign of 1864 proved, in
keeping with all the others, miserable
failure.
Sheridan succeeded Hunter in the design
on Lynchburg. Successful in driving back
the Confederate advance, he moved up the
Valley OF the Shenandoah. Early threat.
ening his flank from the Blue Ridge, the
Federal chief did not dare 10 proceed he.
yond Stanton. The Southern genera, have.
ing after time assumed the offensive,
Sherida fell back and, notwiths, anding
that he saved his army at Cedar Creek has
not again advanced beyond Winchester
As q" movement upo6 Lynchbnrg the sue
ccsses Of Sheridan's campaign in the Val.
ley have not saved it from the fate which
has declared it in common with all the 9th.
er great movements Of the campaign of'64,
to have proved failure.
Grant commenced during the past year,
his operations against Richmond. High
hopes and confdant assurances declared
bis advance to have sealed the fate of the
"rebellion:" Paper victories brought him,
after bloody slaughter, to poi MT which
he might have reached by water without
the loss of man. The chicanery and
falcehood touching bis operations, from
that day 10 this, meet now their correct in
terpretation,i in the fact that General Grant
ktIll I'm &c nd .frivao m os ina :.