The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-01-04

the rebels will need TO cover points
now menaced by advancing columns
IN the Southwest, and toward Mobile,
&c. What remains Ia addition to this
enumeration ? Nothing but the army
at Richmond, which the powerful force
Of Lieut. General Grant holds fast
there. 1t IS clear, therefore, that
Sherman, 80 far as military opposition
is concerned, has "ail the world before
him where to choose If he has some
work 10 do, it will be only what his
army, spelling for q 6ght' and jubi-
liant over the uninterrupted march
through Georgia, Is most 6a yer for.
2 Putting aside, as settled. the que5-
ton of opposition from the armies Of
the enemv, is an advance from the Sa-
vannAh River though the States OF
South aud North Carolina practicable,
simply as a problem in lOgistics In
other words, Is il feasible as 8 mdrcAf
Before Sherman made bis march from
Atlanta To the Atlantic, il mIght hav-
been hazardous TO answer this qpery in
the affirmative. But the master mind
that in the month Of December con
Quoted his army from the heart Of
Georgia 10 Savannah, g distance OI
three hundred miles, without the loss
OF 20 much as a wagon, is equal to the
task. IL is the prerOgative o. genius to
slsme old impOssibilities by new
achievements. Mems az tqt ra0lsm.
Napoleon, discussing the proposed
passage Of the Spiugen, afterward 50
brilliantly executed by Mcdonald, de-
clared he held that the globe presents
no difficulties which man cannot sur
mount Tell Mcdonald, said he,
that an army can always and at ali
ssasons pass wherever two men can set |
their feet This is the spirit that ami |
mates Sherman, whose mind has In /
many respects an alliance Of genius /
with that great Commander. He has /
practically demonstrated his ability to
perform a task Of equal difficulty with
that assigned him in the programme OF 1
operations above indicated and thereby
taken bond for the successful execution |
of what remains
lis clear from the grand outline Of
the scheme now being worked out by
sherman. that the military situation
in Virginia assumes a wholly new as
pect and relations The expulsion OF
Lees army from Richmond, 80 far
from being, as Hitherto, a desideratum,
is now an event to be prevented. In
deed it is presumable that it will for
some time be Lieutenant General
Grants chief aim to hold Lee in Rich
mond, while Sherman presses forward
in the execution Of his great design
Viewed in its most general aspect
Richmond assumes the ChaTactar of a |
pivot, toward which Sherman IS sweep |
ing, in an immense circumference
1t is q colossal conception, and one
that must riyet the attention of every
Intelligent man. Had some audscjoI-
o -ophet veutured the prediction that
an army would be led from the Ten
nessee river to Atlanta, from Atlanta
to the sea coast, AID from the sea-coast |
up 20 Virginia, through a thousand |
miles of hostile territory, the predic |
ton would have been secuted as the |
widest sally Of intempeTate specula-
ton. Yet We have to-day, before our
ewes, the successful execution of One
half this scheme and this accomplish |
ed fact il the best guarantee Of equa
success in that portion Of the mighty |
work vet before Gen Sherman.
WILLIAM SWIM NF0N.