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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Sherman's Mississippi expedition. (search)
e to dislodge him from his position than we have been to drive the enemy from he Virginia Peninsula and Fortress Monroe. Indeed, a successful lodgment in this fertile region of Alabama would not only have carried with it the fall of Mobile and Montgomery, and secured to the enemy points of great material and strategic importance, but it would have been equivalent to the removal of the Mississippi river, it such a thing were physically possible, from Vicksburg and New Orleans to Montgomery and Mred behind the Tombigbee, instead of upon Mobile.--Having taken his position on the east bank of that stream, it was impossible for Sherman to move upon Mobile without exposing his flanks and rear to ruinous assaults, or to march upon Selma and Montgomery, except after a delay and a series of engagements on the Tombigbee, and Alabama, which would have been equally fatal to his designs. Nor should we fall to make grateful acknowledgment of that kind Providence which delayed the attack of the ene