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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fifty Dollars reward. (search)
bable that the primary object of the movement was to occupy the road, or so injure it as to prevent our sending any reinforcements to our forces operating against Sherman. From Petersburg. Nothing of interest has occurred on the lines at Petersburg except the departure therefrom of the above-mentioned Yankee column. Indeeg Petersburg from this direction yesterday, causing considerable excitement amongst the women and children on board. From the South. We hear nothing from Sherman.--Whether he is crossing the Savannah on pontoons, or sailing down the Ocogee in rafts and flatboats, is equally unknown to us. We only know, and we rejoice much ly reconstructed in his wake. As regards their railroads, the Georgians are, to a man, "reconstructionists." The only news from the far South on yesterday was, that Foster is renewing his demonstrations against the Savannah and Charleston railroad, thereby seeking to divert the attention of part of our troops from Sherman.
The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fifty Dollars reward. (search)
perty to facilitate the defence of the city has been immense. Almost all the rich property holders hereabouts are rebel sympathizers. The advance of the rebel army has necessitated the destruction of property." There is nothing later from Sherman, except a report, brought by a flag-of-truce boat, which left Savannah on Friday last, that "Sherman's cavalry was in six miles of the city." A telegram from Louisville, dated the 4th instant, says: General Burbridge, with his commandSherman's cavalry was in six miles of the city." A telegram from Louisville, dated the 4th instant, says: General Burbridge, with his command, has reached Bean station, and General Breckinridge, apparently declining battle, has fallen back towards Virginia.--General Stoneman will, if necessary, aid Breckinridge's backward movements. James Watson Webb, United States Minister at Rio Janeiro, had written a letter to the Brazilian authorities disavowing, on the part of his Government, the capture of the Florida, and promising ample explanation and reparation for it. The Yankee papers rasp him sharply for his officiousness in maki