FROM HIS DEPARTURE FROM CHATTANOOGA TO THE SUR- HIS COMMAND. TO WHICH IS ADDED, GENERAL SHERMAN'S EVIDENCE BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL THE ANIMADVERSIONS OF SECRETARY WITH A DEFENCE OF HIS PROCEEDINGS, ETC. NEW YORK: BUNCE & HUNTINGTON, PUBLISHERS. 8326.21 1031-5° 1869, Oct: 11. 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 RENNIE, SHEA & LINDSAY, . 81, 83 & 85 Centre-st., C. A. ALVORD, 15 VANDEWATER-ST. 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 CONTENTS. General Sherman's Official Account of his Great March: PAGE I. From Chattanooga to Atlanta... Correspondence with the authorities of Atlanta.. . . . . . 56 II. From Atlanta to Savannah, through the heart of Georgia. 63 III. From Savannah to Goldsboro', through the Carolinas... 86 IV. The close of the campaign, and the surrender of the Con- federate forces under General Joseph E. Johnston..... 111 Farewell Address to his Army...... Official record of the correspondence relating to the surrender of the Confederate Army under General Joseph E. Johnston. 137 General Sherman's order on Peace...... General Johnston's address to the people of the Southern States. 157 General Sherman's examination before the Congressional Com- mittee on the Conduct of the War, relative to his conference with General Joseph E. Johnston... Secretary Stanton's Official War Gazette.... |
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