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Chapter IX
The final blow at Atlanta
Johnston's untried plan of resistance
Hood's faulty move
holding the Pivot of the position
Anecdotes of the men i not be quite sure of.
Some tine after the war, that very able commander General Joseph E. Johnston told me that in his judgment Sherman's operations in Hood's rear ought not to have caused the evacuation of Atlanta; that he (Johnston), when in command, had anticipated such a movement, and had prepared, or intended to prepare, t y one of them so thoroughly that it could not be repaired in time to replenish Johnston's supplies in Atlanta.
Here is presented a question well worthy of the care er may be the final judgment upon that question, it seems perfectly clear that Johnston's plan of defense ought at least to have been tried by his successor.
If Hood ant to force the enemy east, by Spring Place, into the barren mountains, where Johnston would have been compelled to go if McPherson's move on Resaca in May had been
Chapter XVIII
Transfer of the Twenty
third Corps to North Carolina
Sherman's plan of marching to the rear of Lee
the surrender of J. E. Johnston's army
authorship of the approved terms of surrender
political reconstruction
Sherman's genius
contrast between Grant and Sherman
Halleck's characteristics
his attempt to supplant Grant
personal feeling in battle
the Scars of War.
upon the termination of the campaign of 1864 in Tennessee, General Grant ordered me, with the Twenty-third Corps, to the coast of North Carolina, via Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Washington, and the sea. Under the direction of the Assistant Secretary of War, Charles A. Dana, and the personal management of Colonel Lewis B. Parsons of the quartermaster's department, that movement was made without any necessity for the exercise of direction or control on my part, in respect to routes or otherwise.
I enjoyed very much being a simple passenger on that comfortable journey, one of the most r