Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
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“distinguished gallantry”: Text contained on Georgia State Historical Marker 084-21.
“and supposed killed”: Macon Daily Telegraph, 11/24/1864.
“it would have resulted”: OR 53:42.
“success in driving”: OR 53:40.
“to avoid an engagement”: OR 44:414.
“From all the information”: King, Letter, GSA.
CHAPTER 14. “THE FIRST ACT IS WELL PLAYED”
“the now important”: OR 44:878.
“The cadets”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 300.
“I am expecting”: OR 44:878.
“The first stage”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:187.
“not used”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 86.
“First act”: Ibid., 85.
“looked…like a person”: McKinley, “Memories,” UDC.
“Captured wagons”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 1/17/1880.
“The bravery of the school boys”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 300.
“completely destroyed”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”
“It was really amusing”: Scofield, Papers, GHS.
“all public buildings”: Collins, Memoirs, 294.
“The State House”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“All polite and intelligent”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“Stayed in the city”: Chapman, “Civil War Diary,” 102.
“very curious way”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“valuable things”: Grunert, History, 123.
“many a poor soldier”: Wallace, Sixty-First Ohio, 29.
“purchasing power”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 120.
“them happy”: Bryant, History, 284.
“Settlement was made”: Baldwin, Papers, HL.
“miserable weapons”: Ames, Diary, MHI.
“if they intended to fight”: Short, Diary, WHS.
“formidable looking”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 114.
“a pretty fair sample”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“Choice literary”/“Public libraries”: Angle, Three Years, 408.
“He looked”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“Motions were made”: Boies, Record, 101.
“Gen. Kilpatrick”: Bryant, History, 285.
“In a moment”: Boies, Record, 101.
“not present”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:190.
“How my blood boiled”: Harris, Papers, DU.
“We got plenty”: Abernethy, Diary, SHI.
a flurry of orders: Hazen, Narrative, 315–17.
“We sent a few bullets”: Joyce, “From Infantry to Cavalry,” 300.
“We kept down”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 457.
“the enemy”: OR 44:154.
“carpets, curtains”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:188.
“It would have been wrong”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 86.
“Augusta [was not]”: New York Times, 1/29/1876.
Special Field Orders No. 127: OR 44:527.
“These were, substantially”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:190.
“I want you”: New York Times, 2/26/1876.
“I advanced”: Quoted in Jones, Siege of Savannah, 48.
“became panic stricken”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/29/1864.
“Send me 5,000”: OR 44:887.
“found about”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“I heard a loud explosion”: Bradley, Star Corps, 191.
“in well-informed circles”/“Milledgeville”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/28/1864.
“General Sherman is not”: Richmond Examiner, 9/24/64.
“that SHERMAN’S march”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 11/28/1864.
“every effort”: OR 44:891.
“might have to ask him”: Howard, Autobiography, 2:79.
“3,000 men”: OR 44:891–93.
“more than 800”: OR 53:34.
“positive information”: OR 44:536.
“a long and important”: Roman, Military Operations, 2:302.
“the most direct route”: OR 44:890.
“I will be obliged”: OR 44:536.
“an intelligent gentleman”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/24/1864.
“had enjoyed a fine march”: Howard, “Sherman’s Advance from Atlanta,” 664.
“dense, penetrating”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“The roads are frozen”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 121.
“a continuous medley”: Byrne, Uncommon Soldiers, 201.
“Each regiment”: National Tribune, 10/21/1937.
“We had pancakes”: Lathrop, John Smethurst, 61.
“a grand scene”: Underwood, Three Years’ Service, 248.
“saw no signs”: Westervelt, Lights and Shadows, 85.
“a woman on horseback”: Girardi and Cheairs, Memoirs, 152.
“were quite numerous”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 8.
“In passing through”: Hapeman, Diary, ALL.
“a soldier asked a woman”: McAdams, Every-day Soldier Life, 118.
“duly confiscated”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 321.
“The morning was quite frosty”/“Two of our boys”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 105.
“A very unfortunate”: Floyd, History of the Seventy-fifth, 351.
“God hasten the day”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 88.
“If they die”: Sunny South, 11/30/1901.
“General Sherman passed”: Hoerner, Chattanooga, Savannah and Alexandria, 42.
“General Sherman rode”: Bryant, History, 286.
“We are now”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 90.
“Rascals borrowed”: Ibid., 89.
CHAPTER 15. “WE WENT FOR THEM ON THE RUN”
“rang out beautifully”: 92nd Illinois Volunteers, 180–81.
“Morning cold”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“doubtless breathe”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 321.
“two explosions”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“Blew up”: Levey, Diary, MHI.
“Our cavalry”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 30–31.
“mere boys”: Ibid., 32.
“very ragged”: McKinley, “Memories,” UDC.
“women ran out”: Heyward-Ferguson, Papers, SHC.
“told him”: McKinley, “Memories,” UDC.
“plundering band”: Quoted in Bonner, Milledgeville, 290.
“Then you have done”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 92.
“a few houses”: Sheahan, Diary, ALL.
“the usual amount”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“This Creek of itself”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 226.
“The stream or swamp”: OR 44:272.
“The first thing”: Lockhart, “Civil War Memoir,” WHS.
“using timber”: OR 44:272.
“People are silly”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“While waiting here”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“In war everything”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 92–93.
“Long Bridge”: Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/23/1864.
“We went double quick”: Lathrop, John Smethurst, 62.
“From this on”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 91.
“Forage plenty”: Brant, History of the Eighty-Fifth, 80.
“Among the variety”: Marvin, Fifth Regiment, 356.
“The rebel bushwhackers”: Payne, Thirty-Fourth Regiment, 165.
“The foragers”: Hapeman, Diary, ALL.
“We get meat fresh”: Daniels, Diary, UMB.
“The d——d old rebel”: Ross, Diary, ALL.
“little girl [who] said”: Hickman, Diary and Letters, UMB.
“had left them”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“kept up a continual”: Sheahan, Diary, ALL.
“Here we destroyed”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“May all the names”: Quoted in Shivers, Land Between, 163.
“The 1st and 3r
d”: Federico, Civil War Letters, 166.
“to have your picketing”: OR 44:546.
“I got on a post”: Omvig, Diaries, 114.
“If Georgia is saved”: Quoted in Hallock, Braxton Bragg, 226.
“a great nuisance”: McAdoo, Diary, LOC.
“Now is the time”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 11/25/1864.
“seems to be tending”/“will determine”: OR 44:895.
“thick haze”: Sharland, Knapsack Notes, 23.
“Countermarched”: Jamison, Recollections, 281.
“had to cut two roads”: Force, Papers, UWA.
“had to tare up”: Pratt Diary, WHS.
“General Howard”: Howard and Osterhaus exchange in National Tribune, 1/23/1896; Howard, Autobiography, 2:80.
“burning the Court House”: Chamberlin, History, 151.
“mostly burned”: Burton, Diary, EU.
“now in ruins”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 325.
“We…carried out the goods”: Gore, Diary, MHI.
“I then instructed”: Howard, Autobiography, 2:80.
“I think”: OR 44:897.
“a ladies handsome”: Heyward-Ferguson Papers, SHC.
CHAPTER 16. “POOR FOOLISH SIMPLETONS”
“less than 1,000”: OR 53:34.
“to send off all movable”: OR 44:407.
“a very small”: Quoted in Davis, Sherman’s March, 74.
“There was not an adult”: Atlanta Journal, 6/14/1902.
“was well named”: Benton, As Seen, 234.
“and with shouts”/“the sound of horses”: Toombs, Reminiscences, 179.
“Presently, the pop-pop-pop”: Bryant, History, 286.
“all the mounted officers”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“warm work”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 9.
“I myself saw”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:191.
“not a battle”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 95.
“L.F.J.”: Incident recounted in Jones, When Sherman Came, 41; National Tribune, 3/31/1910.
“There was a wild chase”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.
“women were in great”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“Saw the 20th [Corps]”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 5.
“and went to [a] large”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 96.
“We immediately commenced”: Short, Diary, WHS.
“This evening we got chickens”: Saylor, Letter, WHS.
“transfixed with terror”: Benton, As Seen, 236–37.
“very angry”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 96.
“The co[u]rt house”/“went into a large drug store”: Johnson, “‘Make a Preacher Swear,’” 33.
“He was a happy man”: Ibid.
“had made odd fellows”/“Should judge the poor fellow”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“one of Co. C”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“putting him into a rough coffin”: Bradley, Star Corps, 196.
“So sudden an advent”: Champlin, Diary, WRS.
“strong secesh”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.
“an intelligent half blood”: Trowbridge, Papers, UMC.
“I don’t war on women”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 97.
“that, if the enemy”/“heard that the right wing”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:191.
“it may give the whole army”: Angle, Three Years, 324.
“We marched at 7 A.M.”: Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/24/1864.
“forced march to rescue”/“The roads were dry”: National Tribune, 5/17/1883.
“How our hearts leaped”: Ibid.
“destroyed a portion of the track”: OR 44:363.
“had lit out”: Lybarger, Leaves, 2.
“to wash their clothing”: Fifty-Fifth Regiment, 394.
“busy chucklucking”: Schweitzer, Diary, MHI.
“Officers from other commands”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 159.
“Old man to right of road”: Jamison, Recollections, 281.
“would settle the frail”: Wright, Sixth Iowa, 374.
“to take in all horses”: Schweitzer, Diary, MHI.
“We…went to the river”: Black, “Marching with Sherman,” 456.
“immense cavalcade”: Strong, Papers, ALL.
“‘Bummers’ are entitled”: OR 44:597.
“He was a logical product”/“The typical military bummer”: Taylor, Lights and Shadows, 21.
“The Georgia forager”: Merrill, Seventieth Indiana, 223.
“To provision his army”: Springfield Daily Republican, 4/25/1887.
“It was an almost”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 75.
“Georgia now seems”: Saunier, History, 357.
“obliged to wade”: Osborn, Diary, MHI.
“Here we had plenty”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 325.
“a lot of chairs”: Girdner, Letters, EU.
“have a skirmish nearly every day”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“It is reported”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 232.
“‘out let,’ and if 10,000”: Platter, “Civil War Diary,” UGA.
CHAPTER 17. “I NEVER WAS SO FRIGHTENED IN ALL MY LIFE”
“all combinations”/“In assuming it”: OR 44:901.
“Here, then, will be war”: Miers, Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, 452-3.
“Here tearing the track”: Schwab, “Civil War Letters,” CIN.
“Good work”: Sherwood, Journal, MHI.
“Soldier, will you work”: Hubert, Fiftieth Regiment, 325.
“This is the Sabbath”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“a great deal of cotton”: Quint, Record, 251.
“large buildings”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“As the dense columns”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 117.
“Country very level”: Inskeep, Diary, OHS.
“There is strict orders”: Allspaugh, Diaries, UIA.
“Country good”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.
“I think we destroy”: Parker, Papers, HL.
“I think a katydid”: National Tribune, 4/2/1903.
“These animals were”: National Tribune, 4/30/1903.
“sot fire to the well”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:192.
“great crowd of miserable”: Reeve, Papers, WHS.
“Women came with large”: Bradley, Star Corps, 196.
“They would not leave us”: Otto, Civil War Memoirs, HS.
“It makes but little difference”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 121–22.
“If ever Old Smith”: Brown, Fourth Regiment, 343.
“About noon Slocum”: Sheahan Diary, ALL.
“Had quite an exhibition”: Bohrnstedt, Soldiering with Sherman, 145.
“Gen. Slocum”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“asking God’s blessing”: Jones, When Sherman Came, 41; National Tribune, 3/31/1910; [footnote] National Tribune, 2/9/1911.
“If she spoke”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 99.
“it’s impossible”: Ibid., 101.
“Being as full of curiosity”: Angle, Three Years, 326.
“not a plank disturbed”: Ibid., 326–27.
“an old wooden bridge”: Essington, Diary, ISL.
“tomorrow the second Act”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 106.
“unexpected, and in the darkness”: National Tribune, 9/10/1903.
“fell back”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“we could hear”: National Tribune, 9/10/1903.
“Being mindful”: OR 44:408.
“A company of fifty men”: 92nd Illinois Volunteers, 183.
“Marched thirty miles”: Carter, Story, 307.
“The rebels followed close”: Berkenes, Private William Boddy, 154.
“It was evident”: Lancaster Daily Evening Express, 1/3/1865.
“certainly the vilest”: Harper, Second Georgia Infantry, 66.
“It is needless to say”: OR 44:363.
“sadly in need”: OR 44:375.
“The town was in
flames”: OR 44:408.
“I deemed it prudent”: OR 44:363.
“The enemy’s position”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/5/1864.
“I cannot too strongly”: Jones-Seddon exchange in OR 44:903.
“The time has come”: Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/7/1864.
“Thus we approached”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 107.
“on sandy roads”: Ibid., 107.
“one of the most”: Ibid., 109–10.
“runs through a dismal”: Marvin, Fifth Regiment, 356.
“We tried various modes”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“The troops moved”: Byrne, Uncommon Soldiers, 270.
“I think the Div[ision]”: Reminiscences of the Civil War, 166.
“wilderness. It is all”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.
“In making the order”: Harwell and Racine, Fiery Trail, 61.
“Colonel Adams”: Chamberlin, History, 151.
“These roads are generally”: Harwell and Racine, Fiery Trail, 61.
“men immediately fell in”: OR 44:317.
“Hang onto it”: Lockhart, “Civil War Memoir,” WHS.
“Large quantities of stores”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.
“foragers got lots of stuff”: Saylor, Letter, WHS.
“must have lived”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“Here we had to lay”: Buckingham, Papers, AAS.
“pontoniers and pioneers”: OR 44:326.
“The facility in crossing”: Brant, History of the Eighty-fifth, 81.
“I…was probably”: Angle, Three Years, 329.
“crossed the river”: Johnson, “March to the Sea,” 322.
“a deep stream”: Woodard, Civil War Letters, 20.
“It was a very long”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“The boys made quite”: Brower, Foragin’, 28.
“Books, clothing, cutlery”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“One fellow played”: Porter, Diary, OHS.
“We burnt some”: Essington, Diary, ISL.
“I never can sanction”: Emmons, Diaries, UIA.
“I [am] getting ashamed”: Quoted in DeLaubenfels, “Where Sherman Passed,” 297.
“before night”: OR 44:164.
“old general”: Williams, Diary, IU.
“General Davis then summoned”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“so much so”: New York Herald, 12/9/1864.
“seeing that he was cut off”: National Tribune, 5/17/1883.
“not twenty-five yards”: Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/23/1864.
“only hard fighting”: New York Herald, 12/9/1864.
“I have to this day”: National Tribune, 9/10/1903.
“As company after company”: National Tribune, 9/20/1903.