Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1875 - 814 pages |
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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 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 401 - 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 359 - 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 279 - Then cheer upon cheer for bold Sherman Went up from each valley and glen, And the bugles reechoed the music That came from the lips of the men: For we knew that the stars in our banner More bright in their splendor would be, And that blessings from Northland would greet us When Sherman marched down to the sea. Then forward, boys, forward to battle!
Page 360 - 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 124 - You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.
Page 353 - ... 7. In general terms — the war to cease; a general amnesty, so far as the Executive of the United States can command...
Page 376 - Confederacy, of the peace which now dawns on us, must be judged by others, not by us. But that you have done all that men could do has been admitted by those in authority ; and we have a right to join in the universal joy that fills our land because the war is over, and our Government stands vindicated before the world by the joint action of the volunteer armies of the United States.
Page 279 - Sherman marched on to the sea. Still onward we pressed, till our banners Swept out from Atlanta's grim walls And the blood of the patriot dampened The soil where the...
Page 219 - 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 117 - And now, sir, permit me to say that the unprecedented measure you propose transcends in studied and ingenious cruelty all acts ever before brought to my attention in the dark history of war.