| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| December 27, 1864 |
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| The Cincinnati Commercial publishes a long
history of the march of
Sherman
through Georgia. It is rather dull, and as the following summary of it contains about
all the lies given in the original, we give it: |
| *** The army moved in four columns. Howard
on the right and Slocum on the left, with the cavalry in front and
rear. In this manner it covered a strip of country nearly sixty miles
in width, for three hundred miles. |
| Sherman has cut through Georgia a swath of
sixty miles, and has completely destroyed the great railroad
quadrilateral of which Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and Savannah are
the four corners. The railroad leading
east from Atlanta to Augusta {Georgia RR} is destroyed for over seventy miles,
including the bridges over the Yellow and the contiguous river. The railroad
running south from Atlanta to Macon {Macon
& Western RR} is destroyed for eighty
miles. The railroad running east from
Macon to Savannah {Central (of Georgia) RR} is destroyed for a distance estimated at from ninety
to one hundred miles. The railroad running
between Augusta and Savannah {Augusta &
Savannah RR} is destroyed from Waynesboro' to
Savannah, a distance of over eighty miles. |
| The wholesale work of destruction was
carried on leisurely, and with an eye to completeness. Every rail was
heated and bent; every tie, bridge, water station, tank, wood shed and
depot building was burned, and every culvert blown up. For miles on
the Macon and Savannah and Augusta and Savannah roads the track is
carried over marshy territory by extensive trestle-work. This is all
burned, and it will be very difficult to replace. In all, Sherman
has completely destroyed nearly four hundred miles of railroad
track. |
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