The military movements are important, but to what they tend
we know not. More troops have been added from Sheridan to Grant, and Early to
Lee, and Sherman has crossed Georgia with little opposition or loss. Our last
news is, that he has taken Fort McAllister, some miles below Savannah. What
fate awaits that city we tremble to think of. A raid on Bristol and up the
railroad, towards Saltville, has alarmed us for the salt-works; but General
Breckinridge having turned up in the right place, suddenly appeared in their
front and drove them off, to the great relief of the public mind.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 322
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