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Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea

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by Noah Andre Trudeau


  “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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