The National tribune., 1909-07-22

y7ourth Corps was sent back TO Chatta-.
nooga and Corse's Division of the Sey-
enteenth Corps was sent to Rome, The
situation had so little OF danger in it
that Gen SchofieId. was allowed to go
back to Knoxville to look after the af-
fairs of the Department of the Ohio,
and Gems Logan and Blair were given
a leave of absence to enter the Presi-
Dental campaign sld give their power
full influence TO the reelection OF Apra-
ham Lincoln ~.
ance the books of the campaign He
had begun operations with a force Of
9S7S7 men of all arms. TO which had
been added Blair's two divisions, MAX
ing a total of 112,sie men. or these
he had lost:
Killed Killed :;:..... !, .............. % 9'ssS sss
wounded ...........'..'' %I'eS.
Missing .............s..... 4'441
Total ........... 1867
Taking the Southern reports as ba-
sis, he had inflicted loss upon the
enemy of:
Killed ..-......''''. ''-'''''
Wounded 1892
Total @l,SSu
Besides this, his own reports showed
that his army had captured 1928 pris-
oners. making the eneniy's total loss
34,9i9- The Confederate claims that
they had killed and wounded from two
80 six Yankees to one Confederate
were far from being supported by the
figures Owing to disabilities Incurred
5n the hard campaign and to the loss
of regiments whose time had expired
and had received their discharges. Sher-
mans effective force was now reduced
10 Sl,75S men of all arms.
The Prisoners at Andersonyille.
Sherman was deeply concerned abour
the condition of the prisoners at AnGer-
sonville. The reports which reached
him were overwhelming in their repre-
sentations as to the terrible suffering
there He began a correspondence. with
Hood. in which he carefully avoided
any Implication of blame on Hood for
the conditions. Hood offered to make
q general exchange. This Sherman
could not agree to. in the condition of
the campaign. First, because the most
OF the prisoners he had captured had
been sent to prisons in the North and
beyond his jurisdiction: second. be-
cause il he gave up $4,000 well-fed,
well-rested prisoners from the North
they would be put Immediately into the
army in front OF him, while those he
received in exchange would be unfit for
service, and only small proportion of
them would belong to his own rrgi-
ments.
There remained in his hands some
1900 prisoners captured in the recent
operations and who were still in Sher-
mans jur sdiction. not having passed
Chattanooga. He ordered these back,
and exchanged them for an equal num-
Der of his own men captured by Hood.
In this were included Gen. Stoneman
and Gen. Geo. p. Buell.. He got Hood
TO allow to go to Andersonville train
load Of supplies to alleviate somewhat
graphed to the Vice President OF the
Sanitary Commission to send at once
all the underclothing and soap which
he could secure, with 1900 fine-tooth
combs and 400 pairs of shears to cut
hair. Before these could be gotten
thru, however, the prisoners had been
removed from Andersonville, and they
were finally issued al Jacksonville, Fla.
to the remnant of the prisoners who
had been sent TO that place when An
lersonviIle was abandoned.
Sherman In Georgia Politics.
A mind as many-sided and aggressive
as Gen. Sherman's could hardly escape
mixing into politics. and he found in
Georgia politics what seemed an attrac-
tive opening. The Georgians were
strongly dissatisfied with the way thei,
4 State had been defended. and this feel.
ing became burning after the fall OF
Atlanta.
The majority of the Georgians had
been opposed to going out of the Union
and were only tricked into voting fol
secession by the argument that they
could get better terms outside the Union
than Ia. Joseph Brown. Governor OF
the State. was a very strong character
and became quite restive under the die
tatorship Of Jefferson Davis. Loudly as
Davis had talked of States Rights in
bringing on the war. he showed himself
quite regardless of them when he be-
came President of the Confederacy. The
dispute between Brown and Davis grew
so warm that there was talk on one side
of Georgia seeding from the Confed-
ersd;S, and on the other of Jefferson
Daifs using the Confederate army to
force Georgia into submission Presi.
dent Lincoln and the Union command