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125th Illinois 14th Corps 20th Corps 36th brigade 3rd brigade advance army arrived artillery Atlanta August 27 battery battle of Bentonville battle of Chickamauga boys Bragg breastworks camp campaign Cape Fear river Captain captured Catawba river cavalry Chattahoochie Chattanooga column command company loss creek crossed distance eight miles Eighty-sixth Illinois Eighty-sixth Regiment encamped enemy enemy's evacuated ferry flank foragers force four miles front Georgia Goldsboro ground guns hills hundred Huntsville Johnston Kenesaw killed line of march Lookout Louisville McCook Milledgeville Morgan Morgan's division morning moved mules mustered Nashville negro Neuse river night North Chickamauga o'clock passed picket plantation pontoon bridge raid railroad railway rear rebel regiment at Washington resigned retreat Ridge Ringgold road Rossville route Savannah river Second Lieutenant sent shanties Sherman siege skirmish firing soldier soon Tennessee things thousand troops Tunnel Hill vicinity Washington City wounded Yankee
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Page 113 - 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 113 - 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 113 - Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be retained by the commander of the troops, and the other to be given .to an officer to be designated by General Sherman.
Page 113 - Each officer and man to give his individual obligation in writing not to take up arms against the Government of the United States until properly released from this obligation.
Page 75 - I would infinitely prefer to make a wreck of the road and of the country from Chattanooga to Atlanta, including the latter city — send back all my wounded and worthless, and with my effective army, move through Georgia, smashing things, to the sea.
Page 75 - Ossabaw Sound, Georgia; Pensacola and Mobile bays. I will turn up somewhere, and believe me I can take Macon, Milledgeville, Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia, and wind up with closing the neck back of Charleston, so that they will starve out. This movement is not purely military or strategic, but it will illustrate the vulnerability of the South.
Page 54 - The summits were covered with batteries, and the spurs were alive with men, busy in felling trees, digging pits and preparing for the grand struggle impending. The scene was enchanting, too beautiful to be disturbed by the harsh clamors of war, but the Chattahoochie lay beyond, and I had to reach it.
Page 46 - MS., cap. 115. made those who approached him feel they must obey ; and which infused something like awe into the attachment of his most devoted followers. Such a combination, in which love was tempered by authority, was the one probably best calculated to inspire devotion in the rough and turbulent spirits among whom his lot was to be cast.
Page 112 - I have replies from Washington to my communications of April 18th. I am instructed to limit my operations to your immediate command, and not to attempt civil negotiations. I therefore demand the surrender of your army on the same terms as were given to General Lee at Appomattox, April 9th instant, purely and simply.
Page 60 - July, compelling an evacuation of the enemy's works on the 9th, their whole force crossing to the Atlanta side of the river and burning the bridge after them; and thus, on the morning of the 10th, Sherman's army held undisputed possession of the right bank of the Chattahoochie ; one of the chief objects of his campaign was gained, and Atlanta lay before him only eight miles distant. It was too important ,a place in the hands of the enemy to be left undisturbed, with its magazines, stores, arsenals,...