“He said he was too weak”: Overmyer, Stupendous Effort, 158.
“in places”: Noble, Papers, UMB.
“distributed along”: OR 44:284.
“quicksand”: Schwab, “Civil War Letters,” CIN.
“we had to pry”: Short, Diary, WHS.
“looking like so many stranded”: Byrne, Diary and Journal, RU.
“a poor looking”: Wheeler, Letters and Journal, ALL.
“white flags flying”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“An almost endless variety”: Fleharty, Our Regiment, 122.
“All were in a wild state”: Darnell, “Reminiscences,” UDC.
“a very wet swampy”: Daniels, Diary, HL.
“had to build four or five”: Clark, Downing’s Civil War, 235.
“Stopped often”: Anderson, Civil War Diary, 181.
“about 2,000”: Bargus, Diary, MHI.
“some poor fellow’s”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 153–54.
“McLaws’ division”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:194.
“We hear that the enemy”: OR 44:652.
“indications now point”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 233.
“All the way”: Arbuckle, Civil War Experiences, 112.
“about ½ mile”: McKee, Diary, SHI.
“charge over an open”: National Tribune, 6/19/1919.
“They took the cars”: Gore, Diary, MHI.
“At Black Creek”: OR 44:121.
“There they come”: Grecian, History, 64–65.
“An apparently small trifle”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 12/11/1864.
“We are camped here”: Prior, Letters, GSA.
“small road branching off”: OR 44:276.
“the lusty black”: Bryant, History, 289.
“the worst roads”: Saylor, Letter, WHS.
“cussing mad”: Trego, Diary, CHI.
“Captain, corduroy it good”: Brant, History of the Eighty-fifth, 83–84.
“had raised ‘Hail Columbia’”: Otto, “Civil War Memoirs,” WHS.
“Like a flash of lightning”: Hight and Stormont, Fifty-eighth Regiment, 431.
“Our Brigade just got over”: Porter, Diary, OHS.
“The curiosity of all”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“I dare say the captain”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“We had our dinner ready”: Dresbach, Letters and Reminiscence, MHS.
“The Rebels said”/“The negroes come into our lines”: 92nd Illinois Volunteers, 196.
“Up to this time”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“The groups gathered”: ORS, 7:636.
“Trees had been felled”: National Tribune, 6/13/1901.
“A good deal of corduroy”: Force, Papers, UWA.
“The army has been advancing”: Nichols, Great March, 59.
“We don’t draw ours”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 156–58.
“General very much provoked”: Ibid.
“had washing done”: Engerud, 1864 Diary, 51.
“We sent our forage”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.
“Our camp was in a pine woods”: Saunier, History, 360.
“built works”: Corbin, Star for Patriotism, 160–61.
“moved without supply trains”: Chamberlin, History, 152.
“not sufficiently serious”: OR 44:126.
“Around us are magnificent”: Burton, Diary, EU.
“Went in swimming”: Roe, Papers, KNX.
“This is an important point”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 159.
“inform the naval commander”: OR 44:658.
“two days [before]”: OR 44:160.
“against the destructive”: Quoted in Stewart, Reward of Patriotism, 195.
“injury to the service”: Beauregard, Papers, DU.
“Having no army of relief”: OR 44:940.
“thirty-two days”: Jones, Siege of Savannah, 107.
“Detached field works”: Ibid., 78.
“overflow”: OR 53:381.
“consisted of detached works”: Jones, Siege of Savannah, 80.
“The boys were marching along”: Morhous, Reminiscences, 145.
“occupy the attention”: OR 44:218.
“with instructions to advance”: OR 44:218.
“swamp just at the left”: Wagoner, “From Wauhatchie,” 124.
“After plunging around”: Duncan, Papers, NJH.
“obliged at one time”: Funk, Diary, MHI.
“We waded through a”: Rattenbury, From Wisconsin to the Sea, 79.
“not…to fight the enemy”: Clark, Histories, 2:634.
“Advanced as skirmishers”: Rugg, Papers, CSL.
“most magnificent view”: Short, Diary, WHS.
“The enemy kept blazing”: Bryant, History, 290.
“the Johnnies break”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“three or four”: Clark, Histories, 4:334.
“As I came splashing”: National Tribune, 1/29/1891.
“the swamp was so deep”: OR 44:250.
“Useless negroes”: OR 44:502.
“I…knew [this] must result”: Angle, Three Years, 354.
“Some hid in the wagons”: Bruce, Personal Memorandum, ISL.
“As soon as the army”: Pendergast, Family Papers, MHS.
“It was really pitiful”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“The Negro men constructed”: Reed, “Civil War Diaries,” MHS.
“the raft would carry only”: Rosenow, Pen Pictures, 112.
“As soon as we were over”: Kerr, “From Atlanta to Raleigh,” 215–16.
“a great many negroes”: OR 44:410.
“opened upon us”: McAdams, Every-day Soldier Life, 123.
“his usual rashness”: Rogers, 125th Regiment, 109.
“He was literally torn”: Woodruff, Fifteen Years Ago, 434.
“order was for”: Saunier, History, 361.
“magnificent…railroad”: OR 44:121.
“soon encountered”: OR 44:138.
“breast-works”: OR 44:141.
“The rebels open fire”: Kimmell, Journal-Report, NYH.
“to fire altogether”: OR 44:127.
“The Brigade was too far”: Chamberlin, History, 153.
“Strong sea breeze”: Jamison, Recollections, 286.
“We found the enemy”: OR 44:149.
“subterra shells”: Sherman and the torpedoes in Howe, Marching with Sherman, 161–62: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:194.
“These torpedoes”: National Tribune, 2/19/1925.
“In the entrance”: Nichols, Great March, 86.
“Torpedoes at the entrance”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 161.
“This was not war”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:194.
“One of the Rebels”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 462.
“A Rebel major”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“This is a new mode”: Hunter, Diary, MHI.
“disappeared like a covey”: Jamison, Recollections, 286.
“was on his horse”: Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 1/2/1865.
“The event distributed”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.
“simply a small neat station”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 165.
“To-morrow we may expect”: Nichols, Great March, 86–87.
“dressed in what may be considered”: Cincinnati Daily Commercial, 12/21/1864.
“I don’t think”: Duncan expedition in Howard, “Incidents and Operations,” 433–34; National Tribune, 4/2/1925.
“to defend the city”: OR 53:382.
“The outlook”: Roman, Military Operations, 2:313–4.
“The battery that annoyed”: Quincy Daily Whig & Republican, 1/6/1865.
“a splendid plantation”: Ladd, “From Atlanta to the Sea,” 11.
“What have you got”: Bircher incident in Bircher, Drummer-Boy’s Diary, 147–48.
“We tore up the track”/“made it ‘red hot’”: Miller, Diary, IHS.
“certain what was firing”:
Kellogg, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, 37.
“through thick underbrush”: Grunert, History, 147.
“for he knows”: Storrs, Twentieth Connecticut, 155.
“I have the honor”: Gildersleeve report in Carmen, Papers, NJH.
“Confederate trash”: Ross, Diary, ALL.
“The weather is cold”: Brown, History of the Fourth Regiment, 346.
“We then commenced”/“was not hurt”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.
“Every thing is a black muck”: Winther, With Sherman to the Sea, 139–40.
“The rebels shelled us”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 77.
“pell mell through”: Hawley, Diary, WHS.
“In our front”: National Tribune, 6/13/1901.
“He had dismounted”: Hedley, Marching through Georgia, 324.
“The boys thought”: Fultz, “History of Company D,” 77.
“loud rush”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 170.
“I could see”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:195.
“may be considered”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 166.
“I was driving out”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 11/21/1885.
“enemy is in heavy force”: Hardee statements in Beauregard, Papers, DU.
“some roast pig”: Duncan expedition in Howard, “Incidents and Operations,” 433–44; National Tribune, 4/2/1925.
CHAPTER 20. “I WAS SOON COVERED WITH BLOOD FROM HEAD TO FOOT”
“It was supposed”: New York Herald, 1/7/1865.
“We found by trial”: Widney, Diary and Letters, KNP.
“noise enough to wake”/“Better keep quiet”: Andrews, Footprints, 152.
“One man had”: Jackson, Colonel’s Diary, 172.
“lustily”: Brown, Signal Corps, 347.
“Rations are very”: McLean, Family Papers, NYL.
“All that was issued”: Cruikshank, “Civil War Letters.”
“Our infantry came round”: Christie, Family Papers, MHS.
“Foraging is played out”: Wilcox, Diary, MHI.
“found the enemy”: Sloan, Diary, TSL.
“As we filed”: Storrow, Papers, MAS.
“found the rebels”: Quint, Record, 253.
“crossing was slow”: Bryant, History, 293.
“General…gave him”/“very quiet”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 173–75.
“every inquiry”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 177.
“a plan of Fort McAllister”: OR 44:61.
“about 200 men”: OR 44:690.
“I was thus thrown”: Quoted in Jones, Siege of Savannah, 123.
“I have been obliged”: Beauregard, Papers, DU.
“It was a bitter pill”: Heyward-Ferguson, Papers, SHC.
“Sherman was in no condition”: New York Herald, 1/7/1865.
“battle must certainly occur”: Miers, Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, 458.
“Our situation”: Duncan expedition in Howard, “Incidents and Operations,” 433–34; National Tribune, 4/2/1925.
“Sir: It is my happiness”: Dahlgren message in ORN, 16:127–28.
“The excitement”: Quoted in Lawrence, Present for Mr. Lincoln, 181–82.
“and the vessels”: Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/16/1864.
“the Corps and Division”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 176.
“Ambitious Geary”: Parmater, Diary, OHS.
“dried beef”: Brant, History of the Eighty-fifth, 85.
“one of our boys”: Strickling, Memoir, OHS.
“As soon as it was”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 463.
“You may judge”: Gross, Journal and Letters, MHI.
“spied a light”: National Tribune, 3/4/1920.
“As we went along”: ORN, 16:486.
“falling short”: Bradley, Star Corps, 210.
“terrific fire”: Text on Georgia State Historical Marker 025-79.
“was struck three times”: ORN, 16:486.
“Turn back, Cap”: Bryant, History, 293–94.
“the first naval engagement”: Howe, Marching with Sherman, 176–77.
“We were hotly pursued”: Quoted in Jones, Siege of Savannah, 123.
“a beautiful place”: Eisenhower, Diary, MHI.
“too salty”: Ward, Diary, IHS.
“I determined”: Quoted in Jones, Siege of Savannah, 123.
“We wanted”: OR 44:10.
“gave me a little map”: Hazen, Narrative, 330.
“I gave General Hazen”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:196.
“not to find myself”: Hazen, Narrative, 332.
“some time must elapse”: Augusta Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 12/13/1864.
“rice-mills to their full capacity”: National Tribune, 1/29/1891.
“We drove them off”: Hinkley, Papers, WHS.
“covered with mud”: Glossbrenner, Diary, MHI.
“will be found”: OR 44:704.
“There was a general notion”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 2/6/1886.
“about two miles”: Hazen, Narrative, 331.
“While we were going”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 2/6/1886.
“The day was bright”: Hazen, Narrative, 331.
“looking closely”: OR 44:751.
“had reconnoitered the fort”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 2/6/1886.
“Have you seen”: Brown, Signal Corps, 562.
“plainly seen”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:196.
“the use of the glass”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 236.
“timber in rear”: Harwell and Racine, Fiery Trail, 71.
“the place looked”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:196.
“a careful and close”: OR 44:751.
“This humane and proper act”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 2/6/1886.
“and large, black, ugly-looking”: National Tribune, 2/20/1896.
“believing that it would”: Hazen, Narrative, 332.
“the feebleness”: Quoted in Jones, Siege of Savannah, 124–25.
“observed signs”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:197.
“by the little round puffs”: Strong, Papers, ALL.
“I…saw”: OR 44:752.
“watch me make”: Saunier, History, 367.
“out of a detachment”: Quoted in Jones, Siege of Savannah, 124.
“position on the left”: Hazen, Narrative, 332.
“To make the chance”: Ibid., 332–33.
“On being assured”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:197.
“south and east”: National Tribune, 6/14/1900.
“I and others”: National Tribune, 9/12/1901.
“Keep them down”: Shuttinger incident in Saunier, History, 366.
“cautioned his men”: Ibid., 372.
“My comrades”: National Tribune, 2/20/1913.
“Colonel, you know”: Connelly, History, 137.
“found itself behind”: Quoted in Christman, Undaunted, 65.
“Look! Howard”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“Who are you?”: Fisher-McClintock exchange in OR 44:752.
“a big [tree] stump”: National Tribune, 6/28/1906.
“Is Fort McAllister taken?”: Fisher-Sherman exchange in Sherman, Memoirs, 2:197.
“To my great surprise”: Hazen, Narrative, 332.
“The forward movement”/“they all started off”: Saunier, History, 372.
“There was no firing”: Philadelphia Weekly Times, 2/6/1886.
“out of the dark fringe”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:197.
“a long line”: Nichols, Great March, 90.
“a single line”: National Tribune, 2/20/1896.
“The musketry”: Harwell and Racine, Fiery Trail, 71.
“seemed alive with flame”: Connelly, History, 137.
“This was the moment”: Brockman, “John Van Duser Diary,” 237.
“When we got up close”: National Tribune, 3/14/1907.
“One of my company”: National Tribune, 6/19/1913.
“I had arrived”: Quoted in Christman, Undaunted,
68.
“Some 50 yards out”: National Tribune, 2/20/1913.
“I was knocked down”: National Tribune, 9/12/1901.
“I remember very distinctly”: National Tribune, 7/11/1907.
“the netted abatis”: Connelly, History, 138.
“crawling under”: Burt, Diary.
“to charge with a rush”: Quoted in Christman, Undaunted, 67.
“tangle of buckhorns”: National Tribune, 2/20/1913.
“that it would take four”: Quoted in Livingston, “Among the Best Men,” 104.
“Some got through”: National Tribune, 6/20/1907.
“from the bullets”: National Tribune, 1/29/1914.
“There they go”: New York Herald, 12/22/1864.
“the most difficult part”: National Tribune, 6/14/1900.
“They crossed the ditch”: Howard, Autobiography, 2:91.
“The wind lifted the smoke”: Nichols, Great March, 90.
“were all engaged”: Saunier, History, 364.
“we had to bayonet”: Dye, Letter, MCA.
“I would…most respectfully”: Quoted in Jones, Siege of Savannah, 127.
“Get to the rear, George”: Gordon, Letter, HFL.
“recognized and spoke”: Quoted in Christman, Undaunted, 71.
“the parapets were blue”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:198.
“Then all of us”: Nichols, Great March, 91.
“so wild and boisterous”: Brown, Signal Corps, 564.
“Fort McAllister is ours”: OR 44:753.
“held out your hand”: Anderson, Papers, GHS.
“Take a good big drink”: OR 44:704.
“they were good oarsmen”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:198.
“even Generals Sherman”: Strong, “Account,” LOC.
“he invited us to join them”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:199.
“I’se workin’”: Hazen, Narrative, 334.
“When the news was received”: Cryder and Stanley, “War for the Union,” 464.
“I would the world”: Pittenger, Diary, OHS.
“I hear the troops”: Vail, Diary, OHS.
“Fort McAllister is taken”: Owens, Greene County, 105.
“a great load”: Quoted in Schmidt, Civil War History, 1065.
“Hardtack!”: Taylor, Lights and Shadows, 22.
“some news”: Sherman, Memoirs, 2:199.
“an ambulance”: Howard, Autobiography, 2:92.
“an unwarrantable”: Quoted in Jones, Siege of Savannah, 126.
“reporting the loss”: OR 44:955.
“What boat”: OR 44:753.
“succeeded in avoiding”: Howard, Autobiography, 2:92.
Sherman’s dispatches: OR 44:701–2.
“shared my blankets”: Hazen, Narrative, 334.
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