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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cromwell, Lincoln and Virginia. (search)
n was far more successful than was allowed to transpire. The situation at Mobile — more fighting expected. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Mobile, predicts active operations in that vicinity shortly. Speaking of the recent demonstrations by moveable columns in the Southwest, he says: It seems that our demonstrations were mistaken for a movement upon Montgomery, or some point on the Alabama river, where its navigation could be stopped. And that city and Selma have been, and are now, occupied by the enemy in strength. This news, which is trustworthy, has reached us while I am writing, and is very important when considered in connection with the inquiry, from whence do these forces come? Of this, however, I need say no more. While our forces were marching straight to the Gulf, the enemy, entirely mistaken as to which end of the Union elephant was confronting him, concentrated his strength to meet us, just where we had no intention of going, thus