December 10th.\u2013Snowed two inches last night. Cloudy and damp this morning.<\/p>\n
Guns were heard down the river last night at a late hour. Perhaps it was nothing more than shelling the enemy’s canal.<\/p>\n
We have nothing yet authentic from Georgia; but many rumors of much fighting.<\/p>\n
It is said Gen. Hampton has got in front of the enemy’s column at the Weldon Railroad, and is driving them back. Gen. Hill, it is presumed, is this <\/i>side of them.<\/p>\n
It is also reported that Gen. Longstreet is now (12 m.) attacking the enemy on this <\/i>side of the river, and driving them. Distant guns can be heard southeast of us, and it may be true.<\/p>\n
Major Cummings, Confederate States, Georgia, dispatches that the railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga should be repaired immediately, to bring off supplies from Middle Tennessee. Gen. Bragg concurs.<\/p>\n
The following was received from Gen. Bragg to-day, 11 A.M.:<\/p>\n
“Augusta, December 10th, 1864.\u2013The following dispatch is just received from Gen. Wheeler, twenty-seven miles from Savannah, 10 P.M., 8th December. Enemy are still moving toward Savannah, obstructing the road in the rear, and resisting warmly this morning. I cannot learn that any have crossed the Savannah River. I hear artillery firing, far in my front; do not know what it means: 14th corps and Kilpatrick’s cavalry on the river road; 15th on middle ground road; and 17th, and probably 20th, on Central Railroad.<\/p>\n
“I think the force on the right bank of Ogeechee must be small.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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