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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
tack our extreme right on yesterday morning; but we believe the day passed without any such movement. Warren's column. We are still without later official information relative to the movements of Warren's column than that contained in General Lee's dispatch of last Saturday, which stated that the enemy was retiring from Bellfield, on the Meherrin, followed by Hampton; but, from intelligence obtained through other sources, we feel satisfied that they, being baulked at the Meherrin, abanrther than the Nottoway river; and they have returned to camp, bringing a few prisoners. Our loss is very slight. "The superintendent of the Petersburg and Weldon railroad reports that about six miles of the railroad has been broken up. R. E. Lee." From General Hood--the battle of Franklin. A gentleman, who reached this city yesterday direct from Tuscumbia, Alabama, brings the first Confederate account we have had of the battle of Franklin, on the 30th ultimo. His account con
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Georgia is undoubtedly the granary of the Confederacy, and to destroy its harvests will cripple Lee's army this winter. The carrying off of cattle and horses will, beside, lame the transporting pon that State have undoubtedly become now intense secessionists. It is just as it would be here if Lee should sweep the banks of the Hudson in a broad track of desolation from Albany to New York, leavew base on the North Carolina coast and begun his grand final march into Virginia and the rear of Lee. This would be the closing rebellion, and Lee would be even a worse position than was CornLee would be even a worse position than was Cornwallis at Yorktown. One contretemps, however, might occur, which these supposed movements could not prevent. If Hood should break through into East Tennessee, there would be a new link of communication Bound between the eastern and western sections of the Confederacy. Lee could be reinforced from the West, or he could retreat to the mountains, and transfer the war to Tennessee and Kentuck