THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN: Sherman’s Cavalry within Six Miles of [Savannah]; Citizens of all Classes in the Trenches (12/6/1864)

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THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN: Sherman’s Cavalry within Six Miles of [Savannah]; Citizens of all Classes in the Trenches (12/6/1864)
New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 12/6/1864

Posted on 12/06/2024 7:05:50 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times.

WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 5.

The very latest intelligence from the theatre of war in Georgia and South Carolina, is brought by the Richmond papers of Saturday, the 3d inst., received here to-day. The tone of their talk grows more boastful than ever. No longer content with predicting that SHERMAN will have accomplished nothing, even if he should get out to the coast, they now brag that he never will reach the seaboard at all, or if he does, it will, we are told, be with a loss of half his army.

The following is the Examiner's editorial on the "Situation in Georgia," in its issue of Saturday, Dec. 3:

"All the news from Georgia is extremely encouraging. A few days ago, when the Yankees were reported to have reached Millen, there was reason to believe they would reach the coast easily, but the report was ill-founded. They were whipped before Millen, and the column of relief (FOSTER's, from Port Royal) has also been beaten completely. The aspect of affairs has been much changed. If SHERMAN gets through now, which is doubtful, he will do so with a loss of half his army."

These bombastic predictions will be taken for what they are worth. But the position in which the rebel dispatches show SHERMAN still to be, hardly justifies the hope that he will get through to the seaboard as soon as had been anticipated. It appears from the latest Southern advices that he has not taken Millen, which is about seventy miles from Savannah. The rebels allege that he met a repulse near Millen, but only a portion of his force could have been engaged. SHERMAN's main body, it appears, is still on the west bank of the Oconee,

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The Georgia Campaign: Sherman’s Cavalry within Six Miles of [Savannah] – 2-3
The War in Tennessee: The Battle of Franklin – 3
From East Tennessee: Gen. Breckinridge’s Forces Falling Back – 3
From Newbern, N.C.: The Yellow Fever – 3
From North Carolina: Correspondence of the Associated Press – 3
Arrest of Navy-Yard Employes in Philadelphia – 3
From Washington: Meeting of Congress – 3-4
Thirty-Eighth Congress: Second Session – 4
From Sheridan’s Army: Interesting Ceremony at Sheridan Hospital – 4-5
Congress – 5
Editorial: The Only Real War Issue – 5
Editorial: The Objects of Sherman’s Invasion – 5-6
More Victims of Rebel Cruelty – 6
Carrier-Pigeons – 6
Female Students at Medical Colleges – 6
Editorial: The City Railroads – 6

3 posted on 12/06/2024 7:07:30 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation gets the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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