By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-21 14:52:37 | Updated at 2024-11-21 20:08:30
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SHERMAN’S MARCH: Beauregard and Hood Outwitted; Sixty Thousand Union Troops En Route for the Atlantic Coast (11/21/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 11/21/1864
Posted on 11/21/2024 6:51:29 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.
WASHINGTON, Sunday, Nov. 20.
It is not contraband now to state that it is known Gen. SHERMAN will touch at Macon. He has five corps of veteran infantry -- the Fourteenth and Twentieth of the Army of the Cumberland, and the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth of the Army of the Tennessee, consisting in all of over 50,000 men. He has 9,000 picked cavalry, under KILPATRICK, and has thirty days' rations for man and beast. He goes fully equipped in every particular. His scout system and courier line is so complete as to guard against the possibility even of a failure. The country through which he goes is abundantly supplied with meats and bread, and is a sandy country, traversed by but few streams. If it rains a week on a stretch, it dries up or soaks down into the clay in a few hours. After arriving at Macon, he will probably go to Milledgeville, where he will divide his army, sending a part of it to Savannah, and a part to Augusta. He will fortify the latter place, and after receiving supplies up the Savannah River, he will be able to move on Columbia or Charleston. The programme, if carried out successfully, completely demolishes the railroad system of the State of Georgia. The Western and Atlantic, running from Chattanooga to Atlanta, one hundred and thirty-eight miles, is almost totally destroyed, it will take a year to rebuild it, with no inconvenience in obtaining iron. The Georgia Railroad, (a State institution, as is also Western and Atlantic, and to which the Confederacy is indebted many millions of dollars) running from Atlanta to Augusta, 171 miles, is destroyed from Atlanta to Covington, 41 miles. The occupation of Augusta will add to its destruction.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: civilwar
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