Page images
PDF
EPUB

GENERAL SHERMAN'S

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT

OF HIS

GREAT MARCH

THROUGH GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS,

FROM HIS DEPARTURE FROM CHATTANOOGA TO THE SUR-
RENDER OF GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON AND

THE CONFEDERATE FORCES UNDER

HIS COMMAND.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

GENERAL SHERMAN'S EVIDENCE BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE ON THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR;
THE ANIMADVERSIONS OF SECRETARY
STANTON AND GENERAL HALLECK:

WITH

A DEFENCE OF HIS PROCEEDINGS, ETC.

NEW YORK:

BUNCE & HUNTINGTON, PUBLISHERS.

1865.

KSLOT LI

1037-5

1869, Oct. 11.
Gift of

Edwise P. Seaver,
of Cambridge.
let. 6. 1864.5

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred

and sixty-five,

BY BUNCE & HUNTINGTON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
District of New York.

[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small]

PREFACE.

THE national interest attached to General Sherman's great campaign in the Southern States,-one of the most brilliant and remarkable military achievements in history, induces the publishers to present, in readable type and compact form, its story as it is told in the words of the gallant hero. The narrative, to adopt the comment upon it of a military critic, is written in "a terse, vigorous, and picturesque style." It will well repay perusal, and cannot fail to convince the reader that power and accuracy of description are not among the least accomplishments of this distinguished soldier.

To render the record complete, General Sherman's Official Report is followed by his correspondence with General Joseph E. Johnston, his testimony before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War, and official and other animadversions passed upon him, in consequence of his original agreement with General Johnston. The latter will be found

fully answered in a defence of his proceedings subjoined, attributed to the pen of his brother, Senator Sherman, as well as in the Report and evidence of the General himself

« PreviousContinue »