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The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Sherman's Mississippi expedition. (search)
yond all doubt, the great railway centre of the Confederacy; and the naval attack upon Mobile, the advance of Sherman upon Meridian, and the forward movement upon Dalton, were all parts of the plan by which that point was to be reached. The scheme was a bold one, and showed great originality if not soundness of judgment Gen. Grang up from New Orleans. If Johnston should send reinforcements to the scene of action, as it was doubtless expected he would do, then Grant would fall upon him at Dalton and force him back upon Atlanta, against which it was finally hoped Sherman would be able to advance from the west, while Grant pressed down from the north — indeed, the telegraphic wires inform us that Grant has already moved out from Chattanooga, and that a battle is imminent at Dalton; but when he hears, as he must in the course of a few hours, that Sherman has been failed, he will probably retire to Chattanooga, as the latter has to Vicksburg. But how was this formidable combinati