“a traitor”: Quoted in ibid., 281.
“prolonged applause”: Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 341.
“poor man”: Cooper, Jefferson Davis, 526.
“Our cause”: Macon speech in Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 341–44.
“the [sad] face”: Williams, Diary from Dixie, 297.
“to all human calculations”: Quoted in McMurry, John Bell Hood, 152.
“not unreasonable hope”: Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 378–79.
“rode forth”: Hood, Advance and Retreat, 253.
“I now ask”: Quoted in Hughes, General William J. Hardee, 245, 248.
“The time for action”: Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 345–47.
“I…warned him”: Taylor/Davis meeting described in Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 242–44.
“I can say,”/“best which can be”: Quoted in Hughes, General William J. Hardee, 248, 250.
“There are those”: Quoted in Boritt, Jefferson Davis’s Generals, 53.
“perfectly feasible”: Roman, Military Operations, 2:278.
“he would be”: Roman, Military Operations, 2:279.
“the hero”: Augusta speech in Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 358–61.
“man…who looks”: Williams, Diary from Dixie, 438.
“great struggle”: Columbia speech in Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 351–55.
“spoke very candidly”: Williams, Diary from Dixie, 440.
“If every man fit”: Rowland, Jefferson Davis, 351.
“There are no vital”: Richmond speech in Richardson, Messages and Papers, 1:271.
CHAPTER 2. CAPTIVE AUDIENCES
“Our town”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 5.
“I can see nothing”: Lunt, Woman’s Wartime Journal, 3–14.
“The winter”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 15.
“whether the State of Georgia”: Quoted in Iobst, Civil War Macon, 330.
“It was very astounding”: Felton, Country Life in Georgia, 89–90.
“We know what terrible”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 20.
“But the misfortunes”: Brown speech quoted in Parks, Joseph E. Brown, 307.
“six different wards”: Sunny South, 11/30/1901.
“a sock a day”: Quoted in Walters, Oconee River, 284–86.
“much more pleasant”: Barber, Army Memoirs, 177.
“Disease and starvation”: Quoted in Bailey, War and Ruin, 44.
“Let us not judge”: Davidson, Fourteen Months, 334.
“a merry hearted girl”: UDC, 3:73.
“tranquil old city”: Quoted in Lawrence, A Present for Mr. Lincoln, 4.
“altogether the most”: Ibid., 165.
“His only answer”: Quoted in Stampp, The Peculiar Institution, 91.
“I know that”: Quoted in Federal Writers’ Project, Georgia Narratives, 192.
“shot, burned and drowned”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 64.
“Massa hates”: Nichols, Great March, 59.
“The whites who were left”: Harris, On the Plantation, 49.
“I got way up”: Quoted in Federal Writers’ Project, Georgia Narratives, 168–69, 235–36.
CHAPTER 3. THE STORMBRINGER
“You must continue”: Sherman on Willy quoted in Fellman, Citizen Sherman, 199–201.
“forced into prominence”: Ibid., 117.
“I am full of passion”: Weekly Missouri Democrat, 7/10/1866.
“I would feel rejoiced”: Quoted in Fellman, Citizen Sherman, 68.
“I look on myself”: Quoted in Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American, 49.
“You are rushing into war”: Quoted in Davis, Sherman’s March, 15.
“wore very common”: McConnell, John D. Martin’s Journal, 25.
“With his large frame”: Temple, Campaigning with Grant, 290.
“He is a very nervous man”: Bohrnstedt, Soldiering with Sherman, 142.
“He twice rose”: Temple, Campaigning with Grant, 290.
“I’m too red-haired”: Quoted in Davis, Sherman’s March, 5.
“To the casual observer”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 421–422.
“Sherman was the professional”: Boyd, Life of General…Sherman, 9.
“Without being aware of it”: Quoted in Kennett, Sherman, 240.
“Gen. Sherman”: Elliott, Diary and Letters, MHI.
“Every man”: Cutter, Letters, MHS.
“we felt as though”: Gross, Journal and Letters, MHI.
“The true way”: Quoted in Lewis, Sherman, 434.
“War is the conflict”: Sherman, “Grand Strategy of the War,” 582.
“See the books”: Quoted in Hart, Sherman, 309.
“No goths”/“too much looseness”: Quoted in Grimsley, Hard Hand of War, 63, 100.
“My idea of God”: Quoted in Brinsfield, “Military Ethics,” 46.
[The] northern people”: Ibid., 43.
“prospered beyond precedence”/“We veterans believe”: Sherman, “Grand Strategy of the War,” 583, 582.
“On earth”: Quoted in Bower, “Theology of the Battlefield,” 1015.
“Satan and the rebellious saints”: Quoted in Marszalek, Sherman, 251. “army commanders”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:175.
“Even yet”/“If the United States”: Quoted in Force, General Sherman, 252.
“endowed with intellect”: Quoted in Fellman, Citizen Sherman, 147.
“We must Kill”: Quoted in Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 240.
“The law is”: Quoted in Brinsfield, “Military Ethics,” 45.
“war is on our part”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 74.
“this fair land”: Quoted in Marszalek, Sherman, 296.
“mobs, vigilance Committees”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 755.
“is intensifying the greatest fault”: Quoted in Merrill, William Tecumseh Sherman, 260.
“free press”: Sherman, “Grand Strategy of the War,” 592.
“I say with the press”: Quoted in Spore, “Sherman and the Press,” 2:31–35.
“As the press”: Ibid., 3:30.
“I would prefer”: Quoted in Fellman, Citizen Sherman, 156.
“I have had the question”: Quoted in Merrill, William Tecumseh Sherman, 253.
“I care not”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 688.
“which party can whip”: Quoted in Bower, “Theology of the Battlefield,” 1024.
“when peace does come”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:127.
“My children”: Quoted in Fellman, Citizen Sherman, 199.
“I do think”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 791.
“If I have attained”: Howe, Home Letters, 327.
“People write to me”: Quoted in Merrill, William Tecumseh Sherman, 268.
“You might as well appeal”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:126.
“We have accepted the issue”: OR 39/2:248.
“Talk it over”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 688.
“To make war”: Quoted in Bower, “Theology of the Battlefield,” 1024.
CHAPTER 4. THE PLAN
“most spicy”: New York Herald, 5/13/1875.
“‘cutting their way’”: Quoted in Boynton, Sherman’s Historical Raid, 160.
“I have no doubt”: New York Times, 10/22/1883.
“knock Jos. Johnston”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:27.
“Atlanta is ours”/“The political skies”: Quoted in Castel, Decision in the West, 534, 543.
“Now that we”: Quoted in Boynton, Sherman’s Historical Raid, 143.
“not designed”/“studious and ingenious cruelty”: Quoted in Marszalek, Sherman, 285.
“it is kindness”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:120.
“this act of Sherman’s”: Quoted in Bailey, War and Ruin, 26, 44.
“If once in our possession”/“Either horn”: OR 39/2:412.
“spare the state”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:137.
“would have power”: Quoted in Parks, Joseph E. Brown, 296–97.
“why will it not do”/“It will be”: OR 39/3:3, 162.
“We were as brothers”: Sherman, “Grand Strategy of the War,” 593.
“He stood by me”: Quoted in Glatthaar, Partners in Command, 135.
“This may not be war”: Quoted in Davis, Sherman’s March, 25.
“Hood may turn”/“If there is any way”/“feels much solicitude”: OR 39/3:202, 222.
“On mature reflection”: OR 39/3:239–40.
“Your friends”: Quoted in Kennett, Sherman, 259.
“You may count”: OR 39/3:240.
“I want the first positive”: OR 39/3:311, 333, 324–25, 357–8.
“Damn Hood!”: Quoted in Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 246.
“1,500,000 rations” “If you can defend”/“By this I propose”: OR 39/3:370, 365, 377–78.
“I feel perfectly master”/“Go on”: OR 39/3:395, 406, 408.
“All Georgia is now open”/“I must leave it to you”/“will enable him to hold”: OR 39/3:408, 449, 661.
“Do you not think”: OR 39/3:576, 581, 594.
“With the force”/“you may look”/“Sherman’s army”: OR 39/3:594, 596, 727.
“I hope we shall be ready”/“I have made great”: OR 39/3:600, 613–14, 618, 740, 756.
“I answered”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:169.
“Free and glorious”: Quoted in Miers, General Who Marched, 218.
“The expedition”: Quoted in Hart, Sherman, 225.
“I have no hesitation”/“When the provisions”: Quoted in Marszalek, Sherman, 254, 251.
“The enemy cannot use”: OR 32/1:176. 48 Special Field Orders No. 120: OR 39/3:713.
“looked to personal fame”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:171.
“needed commanders”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:86.
“I know [that] Kilpatrick”: Quoted in Martin, Kill-Cavalry, 193, 185.
“reduced to a minimum”: Oakey, “Marching through Georgia,” 672.
“I had wagons”: Howe, Home Letters, 321.
“little loose”: OR 44:14.
“Evidently it is”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 125.
“Of course you cannot”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 820, 598–602.
“Now it is clearly”: Ibid., 818.
“domestic slavery”: Sherman, “Old Shady,” 4.
“The U.S. has its hands”/“Now you Know”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 574, 794.
“That was his conception”: Quoted in Army Reunion, 102–3.
“I have enough”: OR 39/3:577.
“I would be lost”: OR 44:833.
“The rains”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 42.
“This is the rain”/“is now raining”: OR 39/3:700, 697.
CHAPTER 5. “PARADISE OF FOOLS”
“It would astonish”: Bachelder, Bachelder Family Letters, 50.
“several trains of cattle”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“The Railroad Depots”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“The light of the conflagration”: Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 11/19/1864.
“passed Cartersville”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“railroads, depots”: OR 44:59–60.
“detail of men”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”
“knocking things”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“opened with a grand”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“Perhaps I may prove”: Bachelder, Bachelder Family Letters, 50.
“It is very evident”: Bradley, Star Corps, 180.
“Events are shaping”: Ray, Diary, GSA.
“I remember seeing”: Taylor, Lights and Shadows, 19.
“many officers”: Hedley, Marching through Georgia, 254.
“slowly but majestically”: Strong, Papers, ALL.
“in good spirits”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 51.
“will live long”: Quoted in Merrill, William Tecumseh Sherman, 268.
“I may be in error”: Quoted in Hirshson, White Tecumseh, 250.
“I will not attempt”: Simpson and Berlin, Sherman’s Civil War, 752.
“Our men”: Cate, “If I Live,” 258.
“fire suddenly burst”: Byrne, Uncommon Soldiers, 201.
“A cable was attached”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 108.
“It is evident”: Quoted in Miles, To the Sea, 18.
“very quick”: Quoted in Dyer, From Shiloh to San Juan, 5.
“were convinced”: Lafferty, “Civil War Reminiscences,” 14.
“There are the men”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 52–53.
“was greeted”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“a beautiful sight”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“superb for picture”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 54.
“The railroad”: Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/2/1865.
“Sherman will move forward”: OR 44:857.
“carried out”: Roman, Military Operations, 287.
“big Yankee lie”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/17/1864.
“We burn all”: Inskeep, Diary, OHS.
“Today we are”: Roseberry, Diary, UMB.
“was a fine building”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“I saw that”: Carr Diary, KNP.
“see the smoke”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 321.
“Tremendous fires”: Kellogg, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, 319.
“the flames mount”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.
“vast waves”: Hopkins, “March to the Sea,” 47.
“They came burning”: Quoted in Carter, Siege of Atlanta, 372.
“We already had marched”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 100.
“there was swearing”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“overhauled our knapsacks”: Christie Family Papers, MHS.
“a feeling of loneliness”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 102.
“the earth seems”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.
“came uncomfortably near”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:177.
“the prospect”: Quaife, From the Cannon’s Mouth, 351.
“Straggling and pillaging”: OR 44:463.
“the greatest”: OR 44:452.
“the flanks of the army”: OR 44:458.
“Was there no enemy”: New York Times, 2/16/1876.
“signal that a great”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“position of the cavalry”: Hamilton, Recollections, 153.
“via McDonough”: OR 44:451.
“opposition at these great rivers”: New York Times, 1/29/1876.
“The general commanding”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:174.
CHAPTER 6. “DIES IRAE FILLED THE AIR”
“waiting and working”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“They had just been paid”: Federico, Civil War Letters, 163–64.
“Here we saw”: Bauer, Soldiering, 175.
“I beheld”: Benton, As Seen, 211.
“fearful sight”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“as we left”: Michael, Diary, IHS.
“with a [supply] train”: New York Herald, 12/28/1864.
“found every street”: Angle, Three Years, 300.
“battering down”: OR 44:60.
“First, there was”: Hight and Stormont, Fifty-eighth Regiment, 409.
“which could be converted”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:178.
“We have been fighting”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 58.
“Exciting time”: Carter, Story, 304.
“We were cheery”: Saunier, History, 351.
“Started early”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 229.
“on our strength”: Scheel, Rain, Mud & Swamps, 455.
“It took some time”: National Tribune, 4/16/1903.
“We…made slow”: Brown, Fourth Regiment, 339.
“We found some Rebel”: Sherlock, Memorabilia, 143.
“if she was in good voice”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 253
–54.
“The session”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/19/1864.
“Nearly one thousand”: Barber, Army Memoirs, 178.
“slaughtered thirty-five”: Davidson, Fourteen Months, 337.
“We have found”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.
“a small”: Chapman, Civil War Diary, 99.
“its Court House”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“As our advances”: Grunert, History, 123.
“many of the buildings”: OR 44:339.
“I remember”: Storrs, Twentieth Connecticut, 149.
“a vast body”: McCreary, Papers, DU.
“Standing thus”: Benton, As Seen, 213.
“surprise and wonder”: Bauer, Soldiering, 177.
“the western sky”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 109.
“I suppose”: Russell, Letter, OHS.
“Dies irae”: Merrill, Seventieth Indiana, 524.
“I saw 4 or 5”: Daniels, Diary, HL.
“The wagons”: Bargus, Diary, MHI.
“a disagreeable task”: Sharland, Knapsack Notes, 10.
“advanced with infantry”: Quoted in Dodson, Campaigns of Wheeler, 285.
“We charged them”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“I deemed it best”: OR 44:381.
“were hitting”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 254.
“We made lots of noise”: Rogers, Great Civil War, 13.
“We had a very hard”: Patchin, Letters of Jonathan Bridges, 57.
“where re-enforcements”: OR 44:858.
“destroy everything”: Quoted in Dyer, From Shiloh to San Juan, 159.
“The whole region”: Pepper, Personal Recollections, 240.
“Atlanta on fire”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.
“soldiers to go in”: Angle, Three Years, 301.
“As we left the town”: Burton, Diary, EU.
“It must have been a weird”: Moffatt, Union Soldier’s Civil War, 134–35.
“military purposes”/“lawless persons”: OR 44:56, 60.
“great scandal”: Poe, Papers and Letters, LOC.
“smoke, dust”: Tourgee, Story of a Thousand, 335.
“This has been”: Berry, Diary, AHC.
“Every instant”: Rogers, 125th Regiment, 108.
“probably…visible”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 57.
“I saw Gen. Sherman”: Kellogg, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, 25.
“The [blazing]”: Westervelt, Lights and Shadows, 84.
“was truly superb”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“strange light”: Underwood, Three Years’ Service, 240.
“always will…carry me back”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 59.
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