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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
f railway lines and the reduction of Savannah and Charleston; these are only means to help him to an end; and that end — which is the real object of his advance to the sea and of Grant's present comprehensive combinations — is the complete isolation of Lee's army and the enforced evacuation of Virginia by the Confederates. The enemy, once in possession of Savannah, Charleston and Wilmington, would be in a position to successfully assail our communication at the railway angles or elbows at Goldsboro', Branchville and Millen. These, if not strategic, are, at all events, most important points. Indeed, if any place in the Confederacy may be called a vital point, it is Branchville; and, if Sherman's success extend to Charleston, it will require an army to defend it. It may well be doubted, therefore, whether the President and General Lee, looking alone to the security of Richmond and Virginia — which it is feared engrosses too much the attention of both — did not lose an opportuni