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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... give the largest fruits of victory . The general point selected was the left centre ; because , if I could thrust a strong head of column through at that point by pushing it boldly and rapidly two and one - half miles , it would reach ...
... give the largest fruits of victory . The general point selected was the left centre ; because , if I could thrust a strong head of column through at that point by pushing it boldly and rapidly two and one - half miles , it would reach ...
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... give us Atlanta with- out further contest ; but General Johnston had been re- lieved of his command , and General Hood substituted . A new policy seemed resolved on , of which the bold attack on our right was the index . Our advancing ...
... give us Atlanta with- out further contest ; but General Johnston had been re- lieved of his command , and General Hood substituted . A new policy seemed resolved on , of which the bold attack on our right was the index . Our advancing ...
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... as to the amount of force he could employ at that point . I hastily transmitted orders to all points of our centre and right to press for- ward and give full employment to all the enemy in 32 GENERAL SHERMAN'S GREAT MARCH.
... as to the amount of force he could employ at that point . I hastily transmitted orders to all points of our centre and right to press for- ward and give full employment to all the enemy in 32 GENERAL SHERMAN'S GREAT MARCH.
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... give full employment to all the enemy in his lines , and for General Schofield to hold as large a force in reserve as possible , awaiting developments . Not more than half an hour after General McPherson had left me , viz . , about 12 ...
... give full employment to all the enemy in his lines , and for General Schofield to hold as large a force in reserve as possible , awaiting developments . Not more than half an hour after General McPherson had left me , viz . , about 12 ...
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... give the necessary orders for the de- ployment of one regiment forward and another to make a circuit to the right , when I returned to where General Howard was , and remained there until 12 o'clock . FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ATLANTA . 41.
... give the necessary orders for the de- ployment of one regiment forward and another to make a circuit to the right , when I returned to where General Howard was , and remained there until 12 o'clock . FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ATLANTA . 41.
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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...