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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
General Sherman's headquarters are still at Beaufort, from which point he will join the army as soon as it has fairly got out into the wilderness. Thus far the army has met no opposition worth naming, and the probability is there will be none till we reach the Roanoke river. Hardee left this city with twelve thousand men, five thousand of whom were Georgia militia, and have since been disbanded. His entire force at Charleston now cannot be over fifteen thousand, including a division of Early's corps, which was sent down from the Shenandoah Valley. With this force he will not be very likely to throw any serious obstructions in Sherman's way. If Charleston, being a strongly-fortified city, were the object of the present expedition, this army of Hardee's would be worth considering, but, as it is, the rebel tactician will only be an elephant on the hands of the Confederacy. Would that half of Lee's army were cooped up in Charleston. Rumored putting to sea of Confederate iron-