General Sherman in the Last Year of the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Thirty-eighth Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at St. Louis, MissouriR. G. Cooke, 1908 - 21 pages |
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046 THE BORROWER 2002 CANCELLED Abraham Lincoln Admiral Porter antagonism to secession Atlanta BOOK DUE WIDENER campaign ceased he believed Chattanooga coast combine with Johnston command Confederacy Confederate armies Confederate soldiers immediately construction of Lincoln's corduroyed course reconstruction actually cut loose despatch enfranchised in mass enfranchised the Confederate father's army feint fought Georgia given to chil Grant Grant's original plan Hannibal HARVARD COLLEGE honor among negroes Hood Hood's army incentive to sectional Johnston were exactly least embittered element Lee's Lincoln's verbal instructions Lincoln's wishes Mississippi Rivers Nashville North Carolina North in attaining numbering operations OVERDUE FEE policy of recon President Lincoln question he occupied railroads rebellion-treason reconstruction actually followed River Savannah or Mobile secession General Sherman Secretary of War Sherman was radical soldiers he believed soldiers were temporarily South Southern struction outlined Tennessee thence thwart the North Union army Virginia votes to rebel Widener Library wrote Xenophon
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Page 14 - South as soon as the war was over ; and he distinctly authorized me to assure Governor Vance and the people of North Carolina that, as soon as the rebel armies laid down their arms, and resumed their civil pursuits, they would at once be guaranteed all their rights as citizens of a common country ; and that to avoid anarchy the State governments then in existence, with their civil functionaries, would be recognized by him as the government de facto till Congress could provide others.
Page 15 - The 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 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 16 - ... the Constitution of the United States. The Federal courts in the several States to be reestablished: the people and inhabitants of those States to be guaranteed their political rights and franchise so far as the Executive could do so. The executive authority of the Government of the United States not to disturb any of the people by reason of the war, so long as they lived in peace and quiet. In fact, a general amnesty to be established.
Page 17 - I was hurt, outraged, and insulted at Mr. Stanton's public arraignment of my motives and actions, at his endorsing General Halleck's insulting and offensive dispatch, and his studied silence, when the press accused me of all sorts of base motives, even of selling myself to Jeff. Davis for gold, of sheltering criminals, and entertaining ambitious views at the expense of my country.
Page 11 - Your confidence in being able to march up and join this army pleases me, and I believe it can be done. The effect of such a campaign will be to disorganize the South, and prevent the organization of new armies from their broken fragments. Hood is now retreating, with his army broken and demoralized. His loss in men has probably not been far from twenty thousand, besides deserters.
Page 14 - As regards the movements of General Sherman, it was easy to see that, unless they were interrupted, I should be compelled to abandon the defense of Richmond, and with a view of arresting his progress I so weakened my force by sending reinforcements to South and North Carolina, that I had not sufficient men to man the lines. Had they not been broken, I should have abandoned them as soon as General Sherman reached the Roanoke.
Page 3 - ... and Lee. From what he saw, Grant was convinced that in that struggle no one except himself, with the superior rank he now bore, could, probably, " resist the pressure that would be brought to bear upon him to desist from his own plans and pursue others.
Page 17 - General Halleck's insulting and offensive dispatch, and his studied silence when the press accused me of all sorts of base motives, even of selling myself to Jeff'. Davis for gold, of sheltering criminals, and entertaining ambitious views at the expense of my country.
Page 19 - Executive has clearly laid down any policy, but 1 have reason to believe Mr. Johnson is not going as far as Mr. Chase in imposing negro votes on the Southern or any States. I never heard a negro ask for that, and I think it would be his ruin. I believe it would result in riots and violence at all the polls, North and South. Besides it is not the province even of our Congress, much less the Executive, to impose conditions on the voters in "organized States.
Page 10 - Sherman's movement will result either in the most tremendous disaster that ever befell an armed host, or it will be written on the pages of history as the very consummation of the success of sublime audacity. The name of the captor of Atlanta, if he fail now, will become the scoff of mankind and the humiliation of the United States for all time. If he succeed it will be written upon the tablet of fame side by side with that of Napoleon and Hannibal. He will either be a Xerxes or a Xenophon.