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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
The grand object he has in view, however, is not the destruction of railway lines and the reduction of Savannah and Charleston; these are only means to help him to an end; and that end — which is the real object of his advance to the sea and of Grant's present comprehensive combinations — is the complete isolation of Lee's army and the enforced evacuation of Virginia by the Confederates. The enemy, once in possession of Savannah, Charleston and Wilmington, would be in a position to successfuorgia. 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