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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 2: (search)
ops not required to secure the line of Green River. The force at Cairo and on the Ohio River below the mouth of Green River is now about fifteen thousand. Seven regiments have just been ordered there from Missouri. By the middle or last of February I hope to send fifteen thousand more. If thirty thousand or forty thousand can be added from the sources indicated, these will be sufficient for holding Cairo, Fort Holt, and Paducah, and form the column proposed. * * * These suggestions arely take Fort Donelson and return to Fort Henry. On the 16th he had accomplished the work, and the campaign for which Halleck wanted not less than sixty thousand effective men, thirty thousand of which he hoped to have by the middle or last of February, had been made a success by Grant with a force of seventeen thousand men and four gun-boats. General Sherman closes the chapter in which he treats of the movements on Forts Henry and Donelson as follows: From the time I had left Kentucky
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 8: (search)
spersed. Of course I was disappointed not to have crippled his army more at that particular stage of the game; but, as it resulted, these rapid successes gave us the initiative, and the usual impulse of a conquering army. Johnston having retreated in the night of May 15th, immediate pursuit was begun. Thus, seven days after the movement began, General Sherman had finally accomplished what General Thomas, who, assisted by General Schofield, had thoroughly reconnoitered the position in February, had urged should be done at the first, as will now appear from the record history of Buzzard Roost and Resaca. On the 28th of February, 1864, before General Sherman had succeeded General Grant in the command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, General Thomas, who was in command of the Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga, telegraphed General Grant at Nashville, proposing the following plan for a Spring campaign: I believe if I can commence the campaign with the Fourteenth
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
t important line would be so threatened as to force them to keep on it a guard that would reduce their armies in the field much below our own. Before any part of this programme can be carried out, Longstreet must be driven from East Tennessee. To do this it may be necessary to send more force from your command. I write this to give you an idea of what I propose, and at the same time to hear such suggestions as you may have to propose. U. S. Grant, Major-General. By the last of February, General Sherman having been meantime in the depths of his raid to Meridian, the preparations for the campaign thus marked out by General Grant had progressed so far that General Thomas was sending in estimates of the number of troops needed to guard the roads and bridges from Nashville south, both by way of Decatur and of Stevenson, on to Chattanooga, and south to Atlanta. This appears clearly enough from the following telegram: [By telegraph from Chattanooga, February 28, 1864.]
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 20: (search)
and unexpectedly attacked by the enemy upon its left and rear, before it had ceased to exult over the announcement from Sherman that the enemy had abandoned Atlanta, and his order for a vigorous pursuit. While he claims that he originated the March to the Sea, and had it in his mind's eye by the 21st of September, the records prove that Grant had planned the campaign through to Mobile in the previous January, notified Halleck of it on the 15th of that month, Thomas on the 19th, and that in February Thomas was arranging the details of the move as far as Atlanta. The records show further, that on the 10th of September Grant suggested a move from Atlanta on Augusta or Savannah, instead of Mobile, since the control of the latter had passed into the hands of the Union forces. Concerning Savannah, the records reveal an escape of Hardee with ten thousand, from Sherman's sixty thousand, without disclosing even a plausible excuse. Here the Memoirs show Sherman looking back to Nashville, f