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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
t and in what force. Trustworthy accounts from Georgia are sufficiently discouraging. Some woeful blunders have been committed there, and some in Richmond. Sherman's movement will be finally and fully successful. A base will be secured on the sea, from which our lines of communication will be assailed, and an effort made toese, if not strategic, are, at all events, most important points. Indeed, if any place in the Confederacy may be called a vital point, it is Branchville; 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 alonestrike 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 Gr
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
shot off by the same shell at Mobile. His appearance elicited much sympathy, and three cheers were given for him. The Hon. E. C. Bailey, editor of the Boston Herald, was next introduced. After referring to the brilliant achievement of General-Sherman, whose next feat he did not think it would be talking out of school to say would be the capture of Charleston, the speaker predicted that an honorable peace would be arrived at within six months, won not by negotiation, but by the bravery and bathe South had control of almost every department of the Government, and had no cause of complaint that was not arising out of their own acts. The atrocious treatment of our soldiers at Andersonville was willful and unnecessary; the march of Sherman had proved that there was abundance of food which could have been given them. He had spoken with two ladies just escaped from Richmond — they told him that Jeff. Davis was buying up greenbacks by means of an agent, and would soon be running the