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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
ranchville; and, if Sherman's success extend to Charleston, it will require an army to defend it. It may well be doubted, therefore, whether the President and General Lee, looking alone to the security of Richmond and Virginia — which it is feared engrosses too much the attention of both — did not lose an opportunity to place the safety of Virginia beyond future danger, and at the same time to strike the foe a fatal blow, when they declined to send 10,000 seasoned troops to Georgia. With this force, added to the forces already there, the destruction of Sherman would have been assured. There has not been the least danger of an attack upon Richmond and Petersburg since the last assault, on the 27th of December. All of Grant's recent manœuvres were undertaken for the purpose, doubtless, of producing a different impression, and to prevent reinforcements being sent to Georgia. This is not more evident now than it was two weeks ago; and the wonder is that everybody did not see