Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1891 - United States |
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Allatoona April artillery Atlanta Augusta battery battle Blair bridge brigade Brigadier-General camp 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 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 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 365 - 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 358 - The Executive authority of the Government of the United States not to disturb any of the people by reason of the late war...
Page 230 - The truth is the whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Carolina. I almost tremble at her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems in store for her.
Page 366 - 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 361 - 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.
Page 175 - Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city. Away off in the distance, on the McDonough road, was the rear of Howard's column, the...
Page 312 - ... rations and forage for sixty thousand men and twenty thousand animals. You will get of these as many as you can house and protect to such point in the interior as you may be able to occupy. I believe General Palmer has received some instructions direct from General Sherman on the subject of securing supplies for his army. You can learn what steps he has taken, and be governed in your requisitions accordingly.
Page 152 - Until we can repopulate Georgia, it is useless for us to occupy it; but the utter destruction of its roads, houses, and people, will cripple their military resources. By attempting to hold the roads, we will lose a thousand men each month, and will gain no result. I can make this march, and make Georgia howl!
Page 119 - GENERAL — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date at the hands of Messrs. Ball and Crew, consenting to the arrangements I had proposed to facilitate the removal south of the people of Atlanta who prefer to go in that direction. I inclose yon a copy of my orders, which will, I am satisfied, accomplish my purpose perfectly. You style the measure proposed ' unprecedented,' and appeal to the dark history of war for a parallel as an act of ' studied and ingenious cruelty.'.