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The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
t him. The Yankee newspapers heralded his advance by pompous anticipations of the mighty captures he was to make and the mighty effect his invasion was to produce. It was to cut off the portions of Georgia whence, according to their accounts, General Lee receives his supplies. It was to flank Lee out of his position and deliver Richmond over to Grant. It was to recapture the 40,000 or 50,000 Yankee prisoners that they said were in Georgia. It was to take Augusta and Macon, where, they said,Lee out of his position and deliver Richmond over to Grant. It was to recapture the 40,000 or 50,000 Yankee prisoners that they said were in Georgia. It was to take Augusta and Macon, where, they said, were the main rebel powder mills and magazines of every kind. It was to take Charleston and Savannah, and crush the rebellion by the capture of these rebellious strongholds. If he designed any of these things, and the Yankee journals gave him credit for designing them all, yet was disappointment more complete; and if he fancied, as the same papers seem to have done, that the population would receive him with joy and the Legislature rapturously hail his advent as the signal for restoring the