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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... ground comparatively open , and well adapted to a grand battle . We made the proper disposi- tions ; -General Schofield approaching Cassville from the north , to which point General Thomas had also directed General Hooker's corps ; and ...
... ground comparatively open , and well adapted to a grand battle . We made the proper disposi- tions ; -General Schofield approaching Cassville from the north , to which point General Thomas had also directed General Hooker's corps ; and ...
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... ground and dense forests , it took us several days to deploy close to the enemy , when I resolved gradually to work towards our left , and , when all things were ready , to push for the railroad east of Allatoona . In making our ...
... ground and dense forests , it took us several days to deploy close to the enemy , when I resolved gradually to work towards our left , and , when all things were ready , to push for the railroad east of Allatoona . In making our ...
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... ground would permit , I had again ordered an assault on the centre , when , on the 17th , the enemy abandoned Lost Mountain and the long line of admirable breast works connecting it with Kenesaw . We continued to press at all points ...
... ground would permit , I had again ordered an assault on the centre , when , on the 17th , the enemy abandoned Lost Mountain and the long line of admirable breast works connecting it with Kenesaw . We continued to press at all points ...
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... ground was comparatively open , and although the enemy drove in the skirmish lines — an advanced regiment of General Schofield , sent out purposely to hold him in check until some preparations could be completed for his reception - yet ...
... ground was comparatively open , and although the enemy drove in the skirmish lines — an advanced regiment of General Schofield , sent out purposely to hold him in check until some preparations could be completed for his reception - yet ...
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... ground so close to the enemy's parapets that he could not show a head above them . It would not do to rest long under the influence of a mistake or failure , and accordingly General Schofield was working strong on the enemy's left ; and ...
... ground so close to the enemy's parapets that he could not show a head above them . It would not do to rest long under the influence of a mistake or failure , and accordingly General Schofield was working strong on the enemy's left ; 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...