Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Selma (Alabama, United States) or search for Selma (Alabama, United States) in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
iles in length, and this could be kept open with comparatively few men. About the shoals there are numerous boats which run to Chattanooga, and there are also several small gunboats to keep the river open. We shall then have the advantage of a water base and a river line of defence. I have often wondered that this has not been before adjusted; but I feel certain that it will now be employed as a base. With an efficient cavalry force, properly supported by infantry and light artillery, Selma and Montgomery will speedily fall into our hands. Those towns would be no further from Florence than Nashville is from Louisville; and Louisville was our base in 1861 and 1862; and Florence is to-day more securely ours than Louisville was then. Message of the Governor of Massachusetts. A telegraphic synopsis of the message of Governor Andrews of Massachusetts, is given: Massachusetts has sent more men into the service than are now to be found in the State between the ages of