Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 2 |
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Allatoona April artillery Atlanta Augusta battery battle Blair bridge brigade Brigadier-General campaign Cape Fear River captured cavalry Charleston Chattahoochee Chattanooga City Point Colonel Columbia column command Commissioned Officers Cox's Bridge crossed Dalton Decatur detachments dispatch enemy Enlisted eral field Fifteenth Corps fire flank forage force Fort McAllister Fourteenth Corps garrison Georgia Goldsboro guns Halleck Hardee Hardee's HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION Hood Hood's horses Howard hundred Infantry intrenched Johnston Jonesboro Kenesaw Kilpatrick letter Lieutenant-General Lincoln Macon Major-General Major-General W. T. SHERMAN McPherson miles Milledgeville MISSISSIPPI move Nashville negro night North Carolina Ohio orders President prisoners railroad Raleigh reached rear rebel regiment reported Resaca Richmond right wing River road rode Savannah Schofield sent Seventeenth Corps Slocum soldiers soon South Special Field Orders staff Stoneman supplies telegraphed Tennessee Thomas thousand tion troops Twentieth Corps U. S. GRANT United Virginia Volunteers W. T. SHERMAN wagons Washington Wilmington wounded
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Page 405 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 360 - Lee's army, or on some minor or purely military matter. He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political questions. 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 356 - The executive authority of the government of the United States not to disturb any of the people by reason of the late war...
Page 357 - Government of the United States not to disturb any of the people by reason of the late war, so long as they live in peace and quiet, abstain from acts of armed hostility, and obey the laws in existence at the place of their residence.
Page 356 - The number of arms and munitions of war to be reported to the Chief of Ordnance at Washington City, subject to the future action of the Congress of the United States, and, in the mean time, to be used solely to maintain peace and order within the borders of the States respectively.
Page 344 - Virginia. Glory to God and our country, and all honor to our comrades in arms, toward whom we are marching! A little more labor, a little more toil on our part, the great race is won, and our Government stands regenerated, after four long years of war.
Page 223 - Should you capture Charleston, I hope that by some accident the place may be destroyed; and if a little salt should be sown upon its site, it may prevent the growth of future crops of nullification and secession...
Page 120 - ... should scorn to commit their wives and children to the rude barbarians who thus, as you say, violate the laws of war, as illustrated in the pages of its dark history. In the name of common sense, I ask you not to appeal to a just God in such a sacrilegious manner— you, who, in the midst of peace and prosperity, have plunged a nation into civil war, 'dark and cruel war...
Page 127 - ... and shot to carry w.ar into Kentucky and Tennessee, and desolate the homes of hundreds and thousands of good people, who only asked to live in peace at their old homes, and under the Government of their inheritance.
Page 363 - 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.