Major General William T. Sherman, and His Campaign |
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... covered themselves with imperishable glory , none of them have done more to make a name in history , and to be remembered by a free and grateful posterity , than Major General WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN . General Sherman is the son of Hon ...
... covered themselves with imperishable glory , none of them have done more to make a name in history , and to be remembered by a free and grateful posterity , than Major General WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN . General Sherman is the son of Hon ...
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... covering a bridge by which General Wallace had to approach . The Union troops fell back as well as they could , gathering , in addition to their own , such scattered forces as they could find , and formed the new line . During this ...
... covering a bridge by which General Wallace had to approach . The Union troops fell back as well as they could , gathering , in addition to their own , such scattered forces as they could find , and formed the new line . During this ...
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... covered with dust , his face besmeared with powder and blood ; he was giving directions at the moment to Major Taylor , his chief of artillery , who had just brought a battery into position . Mounted orderlies were coming and going in ...
... covered with dust , his face besmeared with powder and blood ; he was giving directions at the moment to Major Taylor , his chief of artillery , who had just brought a battery into position . Mounted orderlies were coming and going in ...
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... covered by a dense grove of heavy oaks and underbrush . The main Corinth Road runs along the eastern fence , whilst the field itself , about three hundred yards wide by about five hundred yards long , extended to the right into the low ...
... covered by a dense grove of heavy oaks and underbrush . The main Corinth Road runs along the eastern fence , whilst the field itself , about three hundred yards wide by about five hundred yards long , extended to the right into the low ...
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... covered with wood , without a guide and with the only di- rection , " to take a north - westerly course , " they set out . Fortunately the North Star was in full view , and by its aid they were enabled to reach the point indicated ...
... covered with wood , without a guide and with the only di- rection , " to take a north - westerly course , " they set out . Fortunately the North Star was in full view , and by its aid they were enabled to reach the point indicated ...
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Adairsville advance Altoona army artillery assault Atlanta attack Augusta battery battle of Resaca bridge brigade camp campaign captured cavalry Charleston Chattahoochee Chattanooga Colonel column command Confederate Corinth Creek crossed Davis Decatur destroyed dispatch enemy enemy's eral field Fifteenth Corps fight fire flank forage force Fort McAllister front Georgia Goldsboro Government Grant gunboats guns Hardee Hardee's hill Hood Hood's horses Howard hundred infantry intrenched Johnston Jonesboro Kenesaw killed Kilpatrick line of battle loss Macon Major-General McPherson miles Milledgeville Mississippi Morgan L morning moved movement negroes night North o'clock officers Ogeechee Ogeechee River Ohio ordered Ossabaw Sound pontoon position prisoners railroad rear rebels reënforcements regiment repulsed Resaca retreat ridge rifle-pits right wing river road Savannah Schofield sent Sher skirmishers Slocum soldiers South SPECIAL FIELD ORDERS supplies surrender Tennessee thousand tion troops Twentieth Corps Vicksburg W. T. SHERMAN wagons wounded Yankee Yazoo River
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Page 29 - CLOSE his eyes; his work is done! What to him is friend or foeman, Rise of moon, or set of sun, Hand of man, or kiss of woman?
Page 363 - The number of arms and munitions of war to be reported to the chief of ordnance at Washington city, subject to the future action of the Congress of the United States...
Page 232 - War is cruelty and you cannot refine it, and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices to-day than any of you to secure peace. But you cannot have peace and a division of our country. If the United States submits to a division now it will not stop, but will go on until we reap the fate of Mexico, which is eternal war.
Page 220 - 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.
Page 20 - I beg you to take immediate steps to relieve me as superintendent, the moment the State determines to secede, for on no earthly account will I do any act or think any thought hostile to or in defiance of the old Government of the United States.
Page 387 - Any one who is not satisfied with war should go and see Charleston, and he will pray louder and deeper than ever that the country may in the long future be spared any more war.
Page 212 - ... should scorn to commit their wives and children to the rude barbarians who thus, as you say, violate the laws of war, as illustrated in the pages of its dark history.
Page 216 - 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 order, simply because my orders are not designed to meet the humanities of the case...
Page 378 - ... quo. I was both willing and anxious thus to consume a few days, as it would enable Colonel Wright to finish our railroad to Raleigh. Two bridges had to be built and twelve miles of new road made. We had no iron except by taking up that on the branch from Goldsboro
Page 337 - The Confederate armies now in existence to be disbanded and conducted to their several State capitals, there to deposit their arms and public property in the State Arsenal; and each officer and man to execute and file an agreement to cease from acts of war, and to abide the action of the State and Federal authority.