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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], "Running the Churches." (search)
littles avail against a bombardment of the city from the water. We now come to the great central expedition of General Sherman, moving eastward from Vicksburg, and reported in our last accounts as having crossed into Alabama and advanced to Selma, a place the great military importance of which, as a rebel centre of supplies, and on account of its military workshops and naval depot, and as commanding the navigable Alabama river down to Mobile and up to Montgomery can hardly be over estimated. The country between Quitman and Mobile is poor and thinly inhabited; but the country between the Mississippi State border and Selma is exceedingly rich, and especially in slaves and 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
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Theatrical. (search)
rce to arrest the march of a column of seven thousand splendidly mounted and equipped men, led by experienced officers, whose march thus far had been uninterrupted, who were buoyant and confident, and were charged with such an important mission. The junction of this cavalry force with Sherman 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 Tomb