“thoroughly destroyed”: OR 44:270.
“The roads are rather”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.
“loaded down”: Grunert, History, 126.
“There were old Pomps”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 119.
“You Yankees did it”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 112.
“I don’t know”: Bradley, Star Corps, 187.
“Why ma’am”: Byrne, Uncommon Soldiers, 260.
“Like demons”: Lunt, Woman’s Wartime Journal, 20–32.
“Troops have plenty”: Burkhalter, Diary, ALL.
“Plenty of corn”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“There was sport”: Otto, Civil War Memoirs, WHS.
“Several…men wounded”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“were accidentally shot”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 7.
“accidentally wounded”: Payne, Thirty-fourth Regiment, 164.
“Provost guards”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“Negroes by the hundred”: Essington, Diary, ISL.
“the negroes”: Angle, Three Years, 311.
“queer old cock”/“Confederates were a great deal”/“I have been three years”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 750.
“Gen. Sherman sitting”: Ross, Diary, ALL.
“The country was sparsely settled”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:183.
“rapidly disappearing”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 75–76.
“beautiful town”: Hedley, Marching through Georgia, 311.
“colors flying”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.
“any amount of fine looking”/“a pretty little village”/“it was reduced”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“the point of it”: Harwell and Racine, Fiery Trail, 56.
“the men floundering”: Wright, Sixth Iowa, 361.
“We took the wrong road”: Brown, Fourth Regiment, 341.
“every man”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.
“Gen. Howard sat”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 20.
“divided amongst”: Gay, Diary, SHI.
“Roads very slippery”: Tomlinson, “Dear Friends,” 172.
“a hard day’s travel”: Berkenes, Private William Boddy, 152.
“General Kilpatrick”: New York Herald, 12/28/1864.
“valuable information”: OR 44:369.
“learned that part”: Moore, Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry, 178.
“ordered Wheeler”: OR 44:870.
CHAPTER 11. “UGLY WEATHER”
“push on toward”: OR 44:496.
“ugly weather”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 76.
“the plantation”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“We are told”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 78.
“The brigade band”: Owens, Greene County, 100.
“that she had heard”: Sawyer, Letters, WHS.
“the weather rainy”: OR 44:270.
“was thick”: Chapman, Civil War Diary, 101.
“the clayey roads”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.
“The roads were in a bad”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”
“The Yankees left us”: Massey, “Recollections,” UDC.
“The inhabitants seemed”: Boies, Record, 104.
“While passing”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 113.
“We must go”: Halsey, Yankee Private’s Civil War, 113–14.
“The animals”: Baker, Soldier’s Experience, 40.
“supposed [it] to be”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“A colored gal”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 458.
“It excited many a pun”: Sharland, Knapsack Notes, 17–18.
“muddy & very foggy”: Unknown Diarist, SHI.
“The roads were so”: Saunier, History, 353.
“nearly every man”: Grecian, History, 61.
“Push on active”: Beauregard messages in OR 44:872–74.
“Let not this stirring”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/20/1864.
“I think Sherman”: Miers, Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, 450.
“We were free”: Barber, Army Memoirs, 180.
“The arsenal was guarded”: National Tribune, 6/9/1887.
“After this work”: OR 44:390.
“given orders to search”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 12/1/1864.
“numbering from”: Ibid.
“convinced the inhabitants”: OR 44:270–71.
“The shoes were given”: Hoerner, Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria, 42.
“Every house”: Noble, Papers, UMB.
“the reg’t passed”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“Every cotton shed”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.
“I believe”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“We would hear”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 29.
“factory was burnt”: Poe, Papers and Letters, LOC.
“a large cotton factory”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 7.
“Plenty of forage”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“The foragers brought in”: McAdams, Every-day Soldier Life, 117.
“We have marched”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“Here the colored peoples”: Essington, Diary, ISL.
“dancing and bobbing”: Kellogg, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, 28.
“formed into a ring”: Girardi and Cheairs, Memoirs, 149.
“In moving to Milledgeville”: OR 44:501.
“The discharge”: Orders in OR 44:502–3.
“I don’t think”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 79.
“It has commenced to rain”: Bargus, Diary, MHI.
“awful for man”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.
“mud is deep”: Anderson, Civil War Diary, 177.
“the roads have become”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 230.
“during the day”: National Tribune, 6/6/1901.
“outrages committed”: OR 44:505.
“Lots of rain”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.
“In the mud”: Scheel, Rain, Mud & Swamps, 462.
“All quiet”: Engerud, 1864 Diary, 48.
“This evening the cavalry”: Moses, “Civil War Diary.”
“a second demonstration”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta,” 664.
“but not sacrifice”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“There was a rebel force”: New York Times, 2/26/1876.
“They made a stubborn resistance”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“Do you recollect”: Swedberg, Three Years, 233.
“For God’s sake”: Kilpatrick telegraph incident in New York Times, 12/28/1864; New York Herald, 12/28/1864.
“Our fun was over”: New York Times, 2/26/1876.
“It was quite a descent”: National Tribune, 5/10/1883.
“Seeing that the [captured] guns”: OR 44:404.
“until the trains”: OR 44:498.
“Some of our troops”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/30/1864.
CHAPTER 12. “BUT BLESS GOD, HE DIED FREE!”
“Burned Denham’s Factory”: OR 44:306.
“When we left”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.
“were burning”: OR 44:320.
“roads were perfectly horrid”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.
“very deep”: OR 44:271.
“The skies were heavy”: Harris, On the Plantation, 227–28.
“morning dawned dark”: OR 44:252.
“Men under difficulty”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“Ground very soft”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“The roads were so bad”: Lathrop, John Smethurst, 60.
“Genl Slocum cussed”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“yelled [until] their throats”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.
“looked like”: Michael, Diary, IHS.
“quite a ridiculous”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“Burnt 3 large”: Kittinger, Diary, MHI.
“a very shammy”: New York Herald, 12/28/1864.
“You never saw”: Quoted in Walters, Oconee River, 298. 171<
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“passed through Eatonton”: Adams, Diary, n.p.
“At Eatonton”: Hurst, Journal-History, 156.
“the darkies there”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 78.
“I never saw”: McDonnell, “Reminiscences,” UDC.
“What is the matter”: Harris, On the Plantation, 227–28.
“soil here”: Gould and Kennedy, Memoirs, 296.
“The mud was ankle deep”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“The difficulties”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“Every body”: Ege, Papers, WHS.
“Dismal day”/“a very smart negro”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 80.
“Dar’s de man”: Ibid., 81–82.
“might…catch”: Howard, Autobiography, 2:71.
“Weather wet”: McKee, Diary, SHI.
“The roads”: Cluett, History of the 57th, 90.
“mud in places”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 324.
“continuous wet”: OR 44:125.
“They drove off”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 20.
“in some places”: Grunert, History, 128.
“I went to a farm house”: Noble, Papers, UMB.
“living bully”: Pierce, Diary, MHI.
“captured thirty mules”: Hoerner, Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria, 42.
“I…was compelled”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“about sixty wagons”: OR 44:253–54.
“The rest of my vigil”: National Tribune, 1/25/1923.
“tore down”: Sheahan, Diary, ALL.
“Men are foraging”: Orr, “Civil War Diary.”
“Plenty of forage”: Fahnestock, Diary, KNP.
“Many of the female slaves”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“not heartless”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 82–83.
“Satisfied”: Beauregard, Papers, DU.
“Rebs attacked”: Keyes, Diary, MHI.
“This evening the rebel cavalry”: Bush, “Civil War Letters and Diary,” ISL.
“tried to cut off”: Corbin, Star for Patriotism, 159.
“went off in a bigger”: Gay, Diary, SHI.
“The rebels attacked”: Schweitzer, Diary, MHI.
“Met the rebel cavalry”: Unknown diarist, in Sherman Papers, LOC.
“corralled the wagons”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 230.
“General, what”: Rufus Kelly incident in OR 53:32; Tinsley, “Kelly’s Defense of Gordon,” 335.
“General Sherman”: Chicago Evening Journal, 1/10/1865.
CHAPTER 13. “WE ‘SHOT LOW AND TO KILL’”
“Very cold last night”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“the cold wind”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“men really suffered”: Wilcox, Diary, MHI.
“Nearly every man”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“foraged sweet potatoes”: Chamberlain, Papers, IHS.
“help feeling pity”: Reeve, Papers, WHS.
“Miserable, cloudy”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“blankets were wet”: Failing-Knight, Papers, MHS.
“It told heavily”: Bryant, History, 278.
“extensive gardens”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“lives like a prince”: Ames, Diary, MHI.
“the good people”: Short, Diary, WHS.
“him out of everything”: Morrow, Diary, MHI.
“I immediately”: Moore, Rebellion Record, 9:147.
“we were escorted”: Bartlett, “Dutchess County Regiment,” 139.
“a blank-looking set”: Potter, Reminiscences, 112.
“old negroes”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“God bless you!”/“Why-why”: Merrill, Seventieth Indiana, 225, 220.
“To-day we followed”: Scott, “‘With Tears in Their Eyes,’” 28.
“We had time”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 224.
“Not so much shooting”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 83.
“Sherman was in fine”: OR 44:183.
“pick out the place”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:185.
“I sent word back”: Ibid.
“He’s got the Linkum head”: Angle, Three Years, 317.
“Dis Mr. Sharman?”: Sherman and slave story in Howe, Marching with Sherman, 4; Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 224; Sherman, Memoirs, 2:186.
“uncle was not cordial”: Ibid., 2:187.
“greatest general”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 85.
“making further orders”: OR 44:519.
“All supplies”: OR 44:880.
“to direct efforts”: OR 44:881.
“every other consideration”: OR 44:883.
“I have assumed”: Ibid.
“I need scarcely”: McAdoo, Diary, LOC.
“lengthened”: Chandler, Confederate Records, 676–771.
“was at Macon”: OR 44:884.
“Georgia’s hour of trial”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/22/1864.
“a few shoemakers”: Quoted in Hillhouse, History of Burke County, 134–35.
“Cold and snowflakes”: Daniels, Diary, HL.
“ground froze”: McMillan, Papers, WHS.
“roasted Chicken”: Grender, Civil War Diary, 48.
“We have just left”: Sharland, Knapsack Notes, 21.
“The citizens somewhat”: Lybarger, Leaves, 2.
“This was a very nice”: Daniels, Diary, HL.
“If we started south”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 74.
“First, and all-important”: Hedley, Marching through Georgia, 314–18.
“all…crowded”: Rood, “Sketches,” 366.
“Very heavy cannonading”: Bargus, Diary, MHI.
“twenty miles”: OR 55:33.
“Heavy cannonading”: OR 44:882.
“marched about a mile”: Dunbar, Diary, BHS.
“through the woods”: Trimble, Ninety-third Regiment, 146.
“The rails are laid”: Kinley, Diary, SHI.
“the plan adopted”: National Tribune, 4/23/1903.
“We enjoyed a snow”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
“cleared up”: Gore, Diary, MHI.
“Yankee picnic”: Unknown Diarist, in Sherman, Papers, LOC.
“Roads very bad”: Smith, Seventh Iowa, 199.
“As the mules drop”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 324.
“Every one”: Gore, Diary, LOC.
“hard pulling”: Chamberlin, History, 150.
“wagons broke”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“and after robbing”: Castel, Tom Taylor’s Civil War, 199.
“It was the bitterest”: Account in Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 250.
“All the fire”: King, Letter, GSA.
“to halt before reaching”: Smith, “Georgia Militia,” 667.
“fugitives…dashing”/“for the double purpose”: OR 44:382.
“severe skirmishing”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“Cobb was delighted”: Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 250.
“General Walcutt”: OR 44:82.
“Found Rebel Cav’y”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 151.
“east toward Savannah”: Taylor, Destruction and Reconstruction, 250.
“was instructed”: Smith, “Georgia Militia,” 667.
“We drove back”: Kirwan, Johnny Green, 175.
“We…drove them back”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 153–54.
“After finding”: Wheeler, Letter, UGA.
“an open prairie”: OR 44:83.
“at 12 or 1 o’clock”: OR 53:41.
“We gathered rails”: National Tribune, 2/17/1887.
“We were getting dinner”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 151.
“We used everything”: Anderson, We Are Sherman’s Men, 118.
“the enemy posted”: OR 53:41.
“an eligible site”: OR 53:42.
“avoid a fight”/“If pressed”/“General: the whole divisio
n”: OR 53:40.
“lying behind a [tree] stump”: Arndt, “Reminiscences of an Artillery Officer,” 288.
“jeers and sneers”: Quoted in Bragg, “Little Battle,” 49.
“an advance”: OR 53:42.
“The enemy’s forces”: Wright, Sixth Iowa, 366.
“The enemy advanced”: National Tribune, 2/17/1887.
“after the sponge and rammer”: Arndt, “Report of Griswoldville,” 523.
“made the rails”: National Tribune, 9/25/1890.
“The enemy’s well served”: Wright, Sixth Iowa, 368.
“The rebel infantry approached”: National Tribune, 9/25/1890.
“We charged them”: Jackson, Diary, KNP.
“The music of shot”: National Tribune, 9/1/1910.
“As soon as”: OR 44:107.
“was most terrible”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 155.
“enabled us to keep”: Winther, With Sherman to the Sea, 137.
“we ‘shot low’”: National Tribune, 2/17/1887.
“in fine style”: OR 53:42.
“quite a hard fight”: Anderson, We Are Sherman’s Men, 117.
“came at us with force”: Bush, “Civil War Letters and Diary,” ISL.
“charged us”: Carr, Diary, KNP.
“We kept on loading”: National Tribune, 9/1/1910.
“As I had already”: OR 44:105.
“The firing was incessant”: OR 53:44.
“the boys fell”: Quoted in Bragg, Griswoldville, 126.
“(from some cause”: OR 53:42.
“My neighborhood”: Wright, Sixth Iowa, 368.
“I never saw our boys fight”: Winther, With Sherman to the Sea, 136.
“At one time”: OR 44:107.
“a rather severe”: Osterhaus, “U.S. Army Generals’ Report,” NA.
“Just about half way across”: Langford, “William Bedford Langford,” UDC.
“and, ammunition”: OR 53:44.
“leaving some of our killed”: Quoted in Livingston, Fields of Gray, 151.
“The scenes of death”: Wright, Sixth Iowa, 368.
“It was a harvest”: Winther, With Sherman to the Sea, 138.
“I was never so affected”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 153.
“I could not help but pity”: Bush, “Civil War Letters and Diary,” ISL.
“The field was almost covered”: National Tribune, 9/1/1910.
“We took all inside”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 153.
“They were badly mixed up”: National Tribune, 2/17/1887.
“mournful sighing”: Wright, Sixth Iowa, 371.
“The Militia has been”: Quoted in Livingston, Fields of Gray, 159.
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