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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
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 successfully assail our communication at the railway angles or elbows at Goldsboro', Branchville and Millen. These, 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 tBranchville; 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 alone to the security of Richmond and Virginia — which it is feared engrosses too much the attention of both — did not lose an opportunity to place the safety of Virginia beyond future danger, and at the same time to strike 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