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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], From Charleston. (search)
From Charleston. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Charleston, January 16, 1865. Sherman has against Charleston and Branchville. Refugees from Savannah, who arrived here on the 12th, stated that he had sent one corps up the west bank of the Savannah towards Augusta, that a second corps had gone to Wilmington, ane may leave it to the President and General Lee to decide what effect such a movement would have upon Richmond and the Army of Northern Virginia.--At Branchville, Sherman's flanks would be protected by the Edisto and its swamps on the left, and by the Santee and its swamps on the right, whilst his base at Charleston would be unassaant to enter. It was only the other day that Mr. Anthony Barelay, formerly British consul at New York, and now a resident in Savannah, was rudely repulsed by General Sherman with the remark, that as soon as the rebels were disposed of (which he seemed to think would be done in a few months) the United States would turn their guns