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SHERMAN & HIS CAMPAIGNS S. M. (Samuel Millard) 1815-188 Bowman,R. B. (Richard Biddle) 1839-1892 Irwin No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 293 - I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton.
Page 399 - 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.
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Page 246 - Instead of my being on the defensive, I would be on the offensive; instead of guessing at what he means to do, he would have to guess at my plans. The difference in war is full twenty-five per cent. I can make Savannah, Charleston, or the mouth of the Chattahoochee. "Answer quick, as I know we will not have the telegraph long.
Page 320 - They can at any moment have peace simply by laying down their arms and submitting to -the national authority under the Constitution.
Page 220 - GENTLEMEN : I have your letter of the llth, in the nature of a petition to revoke my orders removing all the inhabitants from Atlanta. I have read it carefully, and give full credit to your statements of the distress that will be occasioned by it, and yet shall not revoke my orders, simply because my orders are not designed to meet the humanities of the case...
Page 163 - I tell you it was this that made us act with confidence. I knew, wherever I was, that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would help me out, if alive.
Page 295 - ... great success. Not only does it afford the obvious and immediate military advantages ; but in showing to the world that your army could be divided, putting the stronger part to an important new service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the old opposing force of the whole, — Hood's army, — it brings those who sat in darkness to see a great light. But what next ? I suppose it will be safe if I leave General Grant and yourself to decide. Please make my grateful acknowledgments to your whole...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Sherman and His Campaigns: A Military Biography |
| Authors | Samuel Millard Bowman, Richard Biddle Irwin |
| Publisher | C. B. Richardson, 1865 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 4 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 520 pages |
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