General Sherman's Official Account of His Great March Through Georgia and the Carolinas: From His Departure from Chattanooga to the Surrender 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 |
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... communication to be guarded , the strength of the several columns and garrisons , and fixed the 1st day of May as the time when all things should be ready . Leaving these offi- cers to complete the details of organization and ...
... communication to be guarded , the strength of the several columns and garrisons , and fixed the 1st day of May as the time when all things should be ready . Leaving these offi- cers to complete the details of organization and ...
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... communications in the rear be- ing secure and supplies ample , we moved forward to Big Shanty . Kenesaw , the bold and striking Twin Mountain , lay be- fore us , with a high range of chestnut hills trending off to the northeast ...
... communications in the rear be- ing secure and supplies ample , we moved forward to Big Shanty . Kenesaw , the bold and striking Twin Mountain , lay be- fore us , with a high range of chestnut hills trending off to the northeast ...
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... communications , which , though done , was on so limited a scale that I knew the damages would soon be repaired . Pursuant to the general plan , the Army of the Tennessee drew out of its lines near the Decatur road during the night of ...
... communications , which , though done , was on so limited a scale that I knew the damages would soon be repaired . Pursuant to the general plan , the Army of the Tennessee drew out of its lines near the Decatur road during the night of ...
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... communication near Adairsville , and had suc- ceeded in capturing 900 of our beef - cattle , and had made a break of the railroad near Calhoun . I could not have asked any thing better , for I had provided well against such a ...
... communication near Adairsville , and had suc- ceeded in capturing 900 of our beef - cattle , and had made a break of the railroad near Calhoun . I could not have asked any thing better , for I had provided well against such a ...
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... communications of Atlanta instead of against its intrenchments . All the army commanders were at once notified to send their surplus wagons , encumbrances of all kinds , and sick , back to our intrenched position at the bridge , and ...
... communications of Atlanta instead of against its intrenchments . All the army commanders were at once notified to send their surplus wagons , encumbrances of all kinds , and sick , back to our intrenched position at the bridge , and ...
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Admiral Dahlgren Allatoona April April 21 artillery Atlanta Augusta battle Bentonville brigade camps Cape Fear River captured cavalry Charleston Chattahoochie Colonel column Confederate army Cox's Bridge cross Dalton Davis Decatur direction dispatch east enemy enemy's eral Ferry Field Fifteenth Corps force Fourteenth Corps Garrard's cavalry GENERAL-I Georgia Goldsboro Government Halleck HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION Howard infantry intrenched J. E. JOHNSTON J. H. WILSON Jonesboro Kenesaw Kilpatrick left wing letter Lincoln Macon Major-General Major-General commanding Major-General W. T. SHERMAN McPherson miles MISSISSIPPI moved movement night North Carolina officers Ogeechee orders peace pontoon bridge position President prisoners pushed railroad Raleigh reached rear Resaca retreat Richmond right wing River road Savannah Schofield Secretary sent Seventeenth Corps skirmishing Slocum South Special Field Orders Stanton Station Stoneman supplies surrender telegram telegraph Tennessee Thomas troops truce Twentieth Corps United Virginia W. T. SHERMAN wagons Washington Wilson
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Page 192 - President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.
Page 152 - I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern 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 59 - Now, I know the vindictive nature of our enemy, and that we may have many years of military operations from this Quarter, and therefore deem it wise and prudent to prepare in time. The use of Atlanta for warlike purposes is inconsistent with its character as a home for families. There will be no manufactures, commerce, or agriculture here for the maintenance of families and Sooner or later want will compel the Inhabitants to go.
Page 59 - ... because my orders are not designed to meet the humanities of the case, but to prepare for the future struggles in which millions, yea hundreds of millions, of good people outside of Atlanta have a deep interest.
Page 152 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the government of the United States until properly exchanged ; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Page 181 - But even now I don't know that Mr. Stanton wants Davis caught, and as my official papers, deemed sacred, are hastily published to the world, it will be imprudent for me to state what has been done in that respect. "As the editor of the Times...
Page 124 - ... Amazon," both adapted to the shallow and crooked navigation of the Savannah River, were being loaded, the one at Savannah and the other at Hilton Head. The former started up the river on the 1st of May...
Page 83 - We have also consumed the corn and fodder in the region of country thirty miles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah, as also the sweet potatoes, cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry, and have carried away more than ten thousand horses and mules, as well as a countless number of their slaves.
Page 96 - And without hesitation I charge General Wade Hampton with having burned his own city of Columbia, not with a malicious intent, or as the manifestation of a silly " Roman stoicism," but from folly and want of sense in filling it with lint, cotton, and tinder.
Page 31 - He described the condition of things on his flank and the disposition of his troops. I explained to him that if we met serious resistance in Atlanta, as present appearances indicated, instead of operating against it by the left, I would extend to the right, and that I did not want him to gain much distance to the left. He then described the hill occupied by General...