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The Daily Dispatch: December 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fighting at the South. (search)
cle a still more glorious victory." The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle has some facts about Sherman's march in Georgia, from which we take a few paragraphs: "The two wings of Sherman's army united at Milledgeville, where they staid three days. "In their route they destroyed, as far as possible, all mills, cribs and gin houses, cotton screws, and gins, cotton, implements, etc., and carried off all stock, provisions and negroes. "When their horses gave out they shot them. At Eatonton they killed over one hundred. "At Milledgeville they only destroyed the arsenal, depot and penitentiary.--They did not burn the factory near that place. "Along their route the road was strewn with dead negro women and children. "At Monticello, the Federals hung a man by the name of Smith, but life was not extinct when he was cut down. "The farmers having devoted a large share of their attention this fall to syrup making there is a large quantity of corn yet ungathered i