Identifier: marchtoseafrankl00coxj (find matches)
Title: The march to the sea : Franklin and Nashville
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cox, Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900
Subjects: Sherman's March to the Sea Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864 Nashville, Battle of, Nashville, Tenn., 1864
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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f the principal South-ern cities and seaports. The escape of Hardee was adisappointment, but as we now know that he had been care-fully watching the roads since the first approach of theNational army, with the determination to abandon the citybefore the investment could have been made complete, SAVANNAH. 61 the only question was whether he should make the evacua-tion a few days sooner or later. Hardee had only been able to remove his light artillerywith his troops, and the heavy guns, mounted and in store,which were captured, were found to number over two hun-dred and fifty. Thirty-one thousand bales of cotton alsofell into the hands of the National army and were turnedover to the officers of the Treasury Department. The re-treating Confederate army moved first to Charleston, whencethe Georgia militia were sent to Augusta, that they mightrelieve other Confederate troops there and serve withintheir own State, in accordance with the terms of their enlist-ment. 62 FRANKLIN AND NASHVILLE.
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CHAPTER IV. MIDDLE TENNESSEE—PULASKI TO SPRING HILL. While the events described in the last chapters wereoccurring in Georgia, the struggle in Middle Tennessee hadreached a crisis. We have seen that before November 15thForrests cavalry had joined Hood, and that a portion of theConfederate infantry occupied Florence, covering the bridgethat was laid there in preparation for the advance of thewhole of Hoods army. General Thomas had committed toGeneral Schofield the command of the troops immediatelyopposed to Hood, but it was the universal expectation that arapid concentration of the National forces would be madein time to prevent the Confederate army from advancingfar.1 In East Tennessee the enemy, under Breckenridge, madean attack upon General Gillem, who commanded a body ofour cavalry there ; but this was sinrply a diversion intendedto delay the concentration of our forces, like that made justbefore by Forrest, and had no further significance. Sher-mans march from Atlanta made it ne

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