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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
erest. The two armies at the South. There is not much to be gathered from the Georgia papers about the armies of Sherman or Hood. The assault upon Atlanta on the 8th seems to have been made under the mistake that the city was weakly defendethe enemy had about twenty thousand men under General Slocum. The Yankees were about evacuating the city preparatory to Sherman's great march, and some of the Yankees said they were going to Montgomery. General Hood was at Columbia, Tennessee, on the 2d, with Thomas's troops ninety-eight miles in his rear. Forrest is said to be at Paducah. From Sherman's army we have the intelligence that it is moving in two columns — as the report says, one upon Augusta, and the other upon Macon. e railroad to its terminus there. We shall soon hear of their cavalry around Macon and very near possibly, to Augusta. Sherman is moving rapidly, and is not much troubled with transportation. He has burned several stations at the depots he has pa
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ved Northern dates of the 17th instant. The news is not important. Gold was quoted in New York on the 17th at 231. Sherman's Move — the troops in the Southwest. The Yankee journals contain a good deal of boasting about Sherman's expected fSherman's expected feats; but it seems pretty clear that they know little of what he purposes, except that his purpose is to get to some safe base, as is known in the South. We find the following about operations against General Forrest: General A. J. Smith's divmpletely defeating, the demoralized soldiers of General Hood. General Howard has gone to Memphis to take command of Sherman's old Department of the Tennessee. General Morgan L. Smith will take command of the post of Vicksburg, and General Dodge valuable property was secured. Operations before Christmas. A Washington letter says: "No authentic news from Sherman yet; but hopes are entertained that he has, ere this, struck a telling blow. Perhaps Sheridan may soon be on a new war-