Identifier: lifedeedsofgener02nort (find matches)
Title: Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea ..
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Generals
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co

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sta railroad about Waynesboro,where he ascertained that our prisoners had beenremoved from Millen, and therefore the purpose ofrescuing them, upon which we had set our hearts, wasan impossibility. But as Wheelers cavalry had hungaround him, and as he had retired to Louisville tomeet our infantry, in pursuance of my instructions notto risk battle unless at great advantage, I orderedhim to leave his wagons and all encumbrances withthe left wing, and, moving in the direction of Augustaif Wheeler gave him an opportunity, to indulge himwith all the fighting he wanted. General Kilpatrick,supported by Bairds division of infantry of the Four-teenth corps, again moved in the direction of Waynesboro, and, encountering Wheeler in the neighborhoodof Thomass Station, attacked him in position, drivinghim from three successive lines of barricades hand-somely through Waynesboro and across Brier Creek,the bridges over which he burned, and then, withBairds division, rejoined the left wing, which in the
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434 GENERAL SHERMAN. mean time had been marching by easy stages of tenmiles a day in the direction of Lumpkins Station andJacksonboro. The Seventeenth corps took up the destruction ofthe railroad at the Ogeechee near Station lo, andcontinued it to Millen, the enemy offering little or noopposition, although preparations had seemingly beenmade at Millen. On the 3d of December the Seventeenth corps,which I accompanied, was at Millen; the Fifteenthcorps, General Howard, was south of the Ogeechee,opposite Station 7 (Scarboro) ; the Twentieth corps,General Slocum, on the Augusta railroad, about fourmiles north of Millen, near Buckhead Church ; andthe Fourteenth corps, General Jeff. C. Davis, in theneighborhood of Lumpkins Station, on the Augustarailroad. Aiming for Savannah. All were ordered to march in the direction ofSavannah, the Fifteenth corps to continue south ofthe Ogeechee, the Seventeenth to destroy the railroadas far as Ogeechee Church; and four days wereallowed to reach the line

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