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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], House servants for Hire. (search)
ppears even more disastrous than the issue of that warrior's usual undertakings. We cannot doubt that General Sherman, when he parted from General Thomas, directed him to lure Hood's army so far north, and keep it across the Tennessee river so long as possible.--Still, the audacity of laying siege to a fortified city or depot like Nashville, with an army inferior, at least numerically, to that of its defenders, and those defenders commanded by a veteran like Thomas, has had no parallel since Lee, with less than 50,000 men, held McClellan's 200,000 spell-bound in front of Washington, overlapping our mighty host on both wings. With Buell at the head of our forces in Tennessee, Hood might safely have passed Nashville and invaded Kentucky; but with Thomas in command, he could, prudently, do nothing but get out of the neighborhood at the earliest moment. This he was doubtless on the point of doing, if the movement had not already begun, when Thomas decided to force a battle, and thereup
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
Present for General Lee. --We noticed, yesterday afternoon, in the establishment of Messrs. Moore & Hayward, a most excellent drab-colored felt hat, intended as a Christmas present for General Robert E. Lee. In every particular it is of Southern production, and the entire workmanship was done by one of the members of the firm. 1t* Present for General Lee. --We noticed, yesterday afternoon, in the establishment of Messrs. Moore & Hayward, a most excellent drab-colored felt hat, intended as a Christmas present for General Robert E. Lee. In every particular it is of Southern production, and the entire workmanship was done by one of the members of the firm. 1t*
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], House servants for Hire. (search)
even then. Allowing Savannah, and Charleston, and Mobile, and even Richmond, to be captured, still the war is not over.--The necessity of defending these towns, indeed, has been a great drag upon the operations of our army throughout the war. Had Lee not been constrained to manœuvre so as to protect Richmond last summer, he would have annihilated Grant's army, as he came very near doing even with that impediment to his operations. We have not the most distant belief that Grant can, or will, take Richmond; he to do so, Richmond is not Confederacy, nor is it even Virginia. It is simple Richmond, and nothing more. Its fall would place Lee's army at liberty to manœuvre where he chose it. He would simply sit down before it and watch Grant. It would be but a repetition of the relative situations of Howe and Washington when the former took Philadelphia, or, rather, when. Philadelphia took the former.--And so it would be with regard to Savannah and Wilmington. Let our people, th