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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Sherman's march from Atlanta to the coast-address before the survivors' Association of Augusta, Ga., April 20th, 1884. (search)
ting the enemy's advance. Adopt the Fabian system. Thus did he telegraph to the Confederate General officers commanding in Georgia. Do not run the risk of losing your active forces and guns, available for the field, to hold any one place or position, but harrass at all points. The General Assembly being in session at Milledgeville, then the capital of the State, in acknowledgment of the imminent danger, and in earnest effort to compass the protection of the Commonwealth, on the 18th of November, 1864, passed an act authorizing a levy, en masse, of the population of Georgia for the preservation of her liberty and independence. So rapid, however, was the progress of the Federal columns, so strong were they, and so wide a front, completely enveloped by Kilpatrick's cavalry, did they present in their sweeping march toward the coast, that no Confederate forces sufficient to dispute their passage, or powerful enough to administer even a moderate check, could be accumulated in their