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We should be inclined to believe that Sherman's movement from Atlanta to the south was designed to draw Beauregard from Tennessee, where his presence must be a serious inconvenience, at least, to the Yankees, were it not that such a theory does not correspond with the tearing up of the track from Chattanooga to Atlanta.
The better opinion seems to be, that he designs to obtain possession of a base upon the Atlantic or the Gulf, from whence, with renewed resources and increased strength, he may prosecute a winter and early spring campaign.
In the former view, he will make for Augusta and Savannah; in the latter, we may hear of him moving in the direction of Selma and Mobile.
In either case, his journey is a long one, and we do not see that his success will decide any great question.
By withdrawing from Atlanta, and tearing up the railroad, he gives us all the country between the two places.
By going either to Mobile or Savannah, he likewise abandons all the intermediate cou