Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-04-01
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The magnitude, iutricacy and weight o.
Grants combinations against the rebellion are
the grandest the world has ever Witnessed. They
are on a scale commensurate with our great
country: like our prairies, they are broad; like
our mountains, vast; like our rivers, they reach
across half continent.
AT the present moment columns OF troops are
moving forward in various directions. Some arc
going east, some west, some south, and some
north but all in Whatever direction they are GO
ing, arc in reality moving upon Lee in Richmond
Terry, when he landed upon the tongue OF land
between Cape Fear river and the ocean. and when
his men swarmed over the parapets of Fort Fish
or, assaulted an outwork of Richmond
Richmond WAS 10 the mind of the lieutenant
general when he ordered Thomas 10 assault
Hood at Nashville. Grant himself has lain about
the rebel capital holding the chief confederate
army In his grasp, and has invented and directed
movements all having for their object the secur
ing Of the game which he holds within his tolls
To-day the public begin to understand opera
tons which nc first seemed isolated and useless
attempts. The grsndest OF all these was Sher-
mans: and yet, when that commenced, il was
thought BY many . retreat, and by others fool
hardy adventure. which, if successful, offered no
substantial and few moral advantages. But nos
We see its results and are prepared 10 appreciate
its greatness. Before il the railroad system OF
the south-those formidable interior Iines-hss
vanished. and In place of confederacy whose
distant and numerous strategic points were unit
ed with bands Of iron. there remains only q viii
derness
When sherman left Savannah and turned hi.
steps northward, Richmond began TO loom up in
the distance. and people began 10 see that be was
not occupied simply in proving that the ''cOnfed-
erscy les she'll" All the devious roads that he
had followed were to centre in the capital
s.ffk -. I'll A -. - -, f.,..
ated the railroads Of the Atlantic states and cul
of from the rebels all lines of escape or of rein
forcement. At the proper moment advance
was made upon Wilmington, and on the very dsy
that sherman reached Golisboro with his sup
plies exhausted. Schoheld met him on line ths;
he had opened Up TO the ocean.
The supreme wisdom of Grant Is seen in 4
thousand Of the details which have been devel
opei within the last two or three months He
did not attack Charleston. because he knew tina.
Charleston would fall when sherman touched
is hsnk at BranchVille. He did not attack vii
mngton. because il could we'll be turned by
sherman, and because its possession was essen
uai as base OF supplies when sherman had
penetrated a certain distance in his northward
march. And exactly as Sherman reached that
point, he met the supporting column with their
hard tack. and ammunition. and reinforcements
that had come by way of Wilmington
To-day there remain two vitslized poiats in
The cis- Mississippi confederacy-Mobile and
Richmond Around the former i gathered a
force that holds il. while \ column OF 20 900 men
Is bearing down on It's communications. At once
cutting q of from succor or escape. A fe,
~eeks at furthest. and then starvation or surren
der. Around the latter place is Grant. With .
grip Of steel upon the rebel army From ths
vest, through the mountains. there comes q
force OF eighteen thousand horsemen, Who de-
stroy, ss they advance. the western avenue OF
escape from Richmond. From the south there
advance one hundred and twenty thousand mer
under sherman. who bar the only avenue Of e.
cape or held for Lee These are Grants comb
nations. and they are near comsumma,ion-Chi
cago Times