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SHERMAN & HIS CAMPAIGNS S. M. (Samuel Millard) 1815-188 Bowman,R. B. (Richard Biddle) 1839-1892 Irwin No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 393 - Virginia on the following terms, to wit: Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer to be designated by me, the other to be retained by such officer or officers as you may designate.
Page 23 - Recent events foreshadow a great change, and it becomes all men to choose. If Louisiana withdraws from the Federal Union, I prefer to maintain my allegiance to the old constitution as long as a fragment of it survives, and my longer stay here would be wrong in every sense of the word.
Page 164 - You are now Washington's legitimate successor, and occupy a position of almost dangerous elevation; but if you can continue as heretofore to be yourself, simple, honest, and unpretending, you will enjoy through life the respect and love of friends, and the homage of millions of human beings...
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Page 262 - Negroes who are able-bodied and can be of service to the several columns, may be taken along; but each army commander will bear in mind that the question of supplies is a very important one, and that his first duty is to see to those who bear arms. " 8. The organization at once of a good pioneer battalion for each corps, composed, if possible, of negroes, should be attended to.
Page 309 - The islands from Charleston, south, the abandoned rice fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's river, Florida, are reserved and set apart for the settlement of the negroes now made free by the acts of war and the proclamation of the President of the United States.
Page 262 - The army will forage liberally on the country during the march. To this end, each brigade commander will organize a good and sufficient foraging party, under the command of one or more discreet officers, who will gather near the route...
Page 316 - They can at any moment have peace simply by laying down their arms and submitting to -the national authority under the Constitution.
Page 244 - Instead of my being on the defensive, I would be on the offensive; instead of guessing at what he means to do, he would have to guess at my plans. The difference in war is full twenty-five per cent. I can make Savannah, Charleston, or the mouth of the Chattahoochee. "Answer quick, as I know we will not have the telegraph long.
Page 218 - GENTLEMEN : I have your letter of the llth, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give full credit to your statements of the distress that will be occasioned by it, and yet shall not revoke my orders, simply because my orders are not designed to meet the humanities of the case...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Sherman and His Campaigns: a Military Biography |
| Authors | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin |
| Publisher | C.B. Richardson, 1865 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 512 pages |
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