Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Alabama” in chapter 2, page 46 of Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3:
... the same theatre, with the avowed purpose of compelling the national army to fall back from its conquest.
On the 12th of September, Sherman said to Halleck: There is a large abundance of forage in Alabama and Georgia, and independent columns might operate by a circuit from one army to another, and destroy the enemy's cavalry. . . . Our [rail] road is repaired and bringing
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