s, W. Smith.
From South Carolina--Sherman's movements.
The Edisto river rises in the southwestern portion of South Carolina, and flowing southwestwardly, empties into the Atlantic forty miles southwest of Charleston.
Branchville is on the Augusta branch of the South Carolina railroad, a mile east of the point at which the railroad crosses the Edisto.
This river is now the line held by General Hardee in the neighborhood of Branchville.
Nearer the coast we hold the line of the Combahee river, in the vicinity of the Charleston and Savannah railroad.
From the most recent authentic intelligence it appears that while a part of Sherman's army is making active demonstrations against Combahee ferry, near the Charleston and Savannah railroad, as if with the design of marching on Charleston, the rest of his forces have appeared at four points on the Edisto, viz: at New Bridge, five miles below Branchville, at Bumacker's and Holman's bridges, above, and at the railroad bridge oppo
