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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
thousand prisoners and forty-nine pieces of cannon, taken from Hood during the battles of the 15th and 16th. We are not in a position to disprove these statements, but we have repeatedly known quite as positive announcements to turn out absolutely false and unfounded. Perhaps the telegraph is again to blame, as, from Stanton's bulletin, it appears to have been in diminishing Thomas's casualties from three thousand to three hundred. It is noticeable that Thomas sends no telegram on the 17th, and that the "unofficial" telegrams say nothing of what is going on, and do not tell us where Hood is. It is not impossible that matters have taken a turn, at once unexpected and unpleasant to Thomas, who, on the 16th, according to his own account, was driving our army down ten or a dozen turnpikes at once. Perhaps General Forrest, with his splendid cavalry, have turned up in the right place and put a sudden change upon the aspect of affairs. He has a way of turning up unexpectedly, and al
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Savannah. (search)
From Savannah. --The latest newspaper account from Savannah is the following paragraph which we find in the Charleston Mercury of the 17th instant: "As far as we have been able to learn, the report of the evacuation of Savannah by our forces, so current yesterday, is altogether without foundation. General Beauregard left the city by the Savannah railroad yesterday morning. Foster's batteries, in the neighborhood of Tilifinny creek, near Coosawatchie, continue to shell, with great vigor, every train that passes the latter point. As yet, however, we have heard of no material damage done; otherwise, all remains quiet along the line of the road."