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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], House servants for Hire. (search)
An official telegram from Nashville speaks of Forrest being in command of the "rebel cavalry" south of Spring Hill. This refutes the Yankee report that he was killed at Murfreesboro'. From Georgia. There are no later accounts from Sherman. The Herald has full details of recent operations in the vicinity of Savannah. A Rebuke to Lincoln. The following resolution, introduced by Henry Winter Davis, was adopted by the Yankee House of Representatives on Monday--yeas, 69; noehe superior numbers of the enemy. Thomas had been largely reinforced. The Tribune says: The result of Hood's leaguer of Nashville appears 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 in
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], House servants for Hire. (search)
ll and position of Fort McAllister. The Courier says: "The fort was carried by assault at 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the 13th instant, by the portion of Sherman's forces sent to tap the Albany and Gulf railroad. We have no particulars or details of the capture. The officer in command of the fort was Colonel E. C. Anderson, of Savannah. The main body of Sherman's army, it is believed, still threaten Savannah. The capture of Fort McAllister, at the mouth of the Ogeechee, will enable the enemy to co-operate with the fleet in any attack on the city. No further news from there had been received up to a late hour last evening. All was quiet on the in's Bluff are taken. These are works of no pretensions, and are able to withstand a heavy attack.--There will yet be a bloody battle before the city falls. If Sherman is bent upon holding it, he will have to go it over the bloody corpses of thousands of his own men." The Mercury of yesterday morning says: "Wheeler's
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
It is estimated that Sherman, in his raid through Georgia, succeeded in stealing and persuading about one out of every fifteen able-bodied negro men to go with him. Many of those who left have returned to their homes.