--"290," the special correspondent of the
Atlanta Register, in a dispatch to that paper, says:
‘
The enemy has but small force picketing this side of
Missionary Ridge.
From
Rossville to
Red House, there are estimated to be only ten thousand Yankees garrisoning
Chattanooga.
Ten thousand are being concentrated at
Cleveland.
There is a division this side of
Lenoir's.
’
The enemy are employed in repairing bridges and accumulating supplies at
Chattanooga.
The enemy will not be ready to move before April.
Sherman's expedition directed against
Mobile consists of three columns.
The fifteenth Army Corps, under
Logan; the sixteenth under
Hurlburt, the seventeenth under
McPherson, and a division of cavalry under
W. D. Smith.
Our army is increasing rapidly in strength.
The repeal of the substitute law has brought back thousands of veterans to the ranks.
Everything indicates a brilliant and successful campaign.
Our hopes were never brighter — our prospects never more flattering.