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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], "Running the Churches." (search)
cotton Thus in three Alabama counties on the line of Gen Sherman's march — Sumpter, Marengo, and Dallas — there is an aggregate of some sixty thousand slaves against a white population of twenty-five thousand. Gen. Sherman, then, is striking into the very heart of the negro and cotton and corn region of Alabama, and the consequences, with or without any fighting must be exceedingly disastrous to the rebel cause. The objects of this expedition are to out off Mobile from Joe Johnston disperse Polk's broken and demoralized army, to secure the Alabama river, to seize and use or destroy important rebel military depots and stores of supplies, and to carry consternation and demoralization throughout the co-called Confederacy. Matters in Maryland. The Unconditional Union State Convention of Maryland met in Baltimore on the 22d ult. The result of its deliberations is thus stated in the Baltimore American If the pro-slavery men of Maryland needed another evidence of the rapidly cu
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Theatrical. (search)
an at Meridian, was the key of the whole scheme of the Yankee plan for the occupation and subjugation of the Southwest. If successful, Sherman would have been in a condition to advance upon Demopolis and Selma, or Mobile; and these important points, as well as the rich countries adjacent, would have been at the mercy of the enemy. They could only have been driven back at the enormous risk of weakening Johnston's army, so as to open Northern Georgia and Rome and Atlanta, to Grant's army. Gen. Polk, with his scant infantry force, quickly perceived the momentous issue, which depended upon the result of the cavalry movement from Memphis, and after securing his small army on the east side of the Tombigbee, and removing all his supplies and munitions and returning to Mobile the troops he had borrowed from General Maury, sent imperative orders to Lee and Forrest to unite their forces, and at every cost to crush and drive back Smith and Grierson's cavalry. Lee did not receive these or