| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| March 21, 1862 |
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| Tennessee and North Carolina |
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| All eyes are now turned to the
operations of the enemy in Tennessee, and the progress of his efforts to
burst our barriers on the Mississippi, and sweep down he Father of
Waters to New Orleans. It is an experiment fraught with tremendous
consequences to the South. But, there is, if anything, a still more
dangerous experiment going on in North Carolina, which does not seem to
attract so much attention. It is the movement of Burnsides on Goldsboro'
with 22,000 men; which, if he can reach, he will cut off the main artery
of communication with Virginia, and if backed by a similar operation at
Knoxville, in East Tennessee, communication will be effectively cut off,
and the Old Dominion be isolated from the rest of the Confederacy. In
such an event how long our armies could be sustained there would be a
serious question; and whether all of them would not be forced to retreat
and cut their way southward at what sacrifice of territory and public
property. This is, to our mind, as serious and pressing a question as is
now before the public. |
| Macon Telegraph |
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