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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
Publisher: Boston, Mass., Providence, R.I., Gately & O'Gorman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ered Colonel W. W. Wright,superintendent of military railroads, to proceed inadvance to -Newbern, and to be prepared to extendthe railroad out from Newbern to Goldsboro by the15 th of March. ** Forward, March! On the 19th of January all preparations werecomplete, and the orders of march were given.On the 25th a demonstration was made against theCombahee ferry and railroad-bridge across the Sal-kahatchie, merely to amuse the enemy, who had :evidently adopted that river as his defensive line jagainst our supposed objective, the city of Charleston. ^I reconnoitred the line in person, and saw that the ^heavy rains had swollen the river,-so that water stoodin the swamps for a breadth of more than a mile at adepth of from one to twenty feet. Not having the remotest intention of approachingChark^ston, a comparatively small force was able, by Aseeming preparations to cross over, to keep in theirfront a considerable force of the enemy disposed tocontest our advance on Charleston. On the 27th I
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MAP SHOWING THE ROUTE OF SHERMANS ARMY THROUGH SOUTH CAROLINA, 453 454 GENERAL SHERMAN. rode to the camp of General Hatchs division of : Fosters command, on the TuUifinney and Coosa- i hatchie rivers, and directed those places to be evacu- ; ated, as no longer of any use to us. That division i was then moved to Pocotaligo to keep up the feints .already begun, until we should, with the right wing, move higher up and cross the Salkahatchie about iRivers or Broxtons Bridge. The Seventeenth and Fifteenth corps drew^ out of i camp on the 31st of January, but the real march ^ began on the ist of February. All the roads north- ■ ward had for weeks been held by Wheelers cavalry, j who had, by details of negro laborers, felled trees, ij burned bridges, and made obstructions to impede our march. But so well organized were our pioneer bat- ) talions, and so strong and intelligent our men, that • obstructions seemed only to quicken their progress. ■) Felled trees were removed and bridges re

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