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The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
trains were heard coming in from the South continually, and from prisoners it was learned that Johnston was calling in his scattered forces; but that all would not amount to more than 15,000 men. Genis put down at two hundred, and that of the rebels at five hundred. The results have prevented Johnston from detaching troops to operate against Gen. Sherman, familiarized our troops with a hitherto hy information that Logan's cavalry has made a junction with Sherman's forces at Selma. Gen. Johnston, being alarmed for the safety of Mobile, sent one division of his army to that city. As Sherman's orders are to destroy the Mobile, Montgomery, and Atlanta railroad, it is patent that Johnston will also be cut off from Mobile, and must, if pressed, fail back toward the Atlantic coast or to rces south of his present position, and, reinforced by Logan's corps, he may safely attack even Johnston's army. The movement of Thomas to Dalton is adding strength to Sherman's position, and thre