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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 100 2 Browse Search
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid 56 4 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 34 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 22 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 21 7 Browse Search
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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 11 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 2 Browse Search
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
pretty much on the same ground we had occupied before the movement, and with the prospect of a period of rest for the remainder of the summer. We reached our camps on the 27th of July. Meantime, a division of troops, commanded by Brigadier-General W. Sooy Smith, had been added to my corps. General Smith applied for and received a sick-leave on the 20th of July; Brigadier-General Hugh Ewing was assigned to its command; and from that time it constituted the Fourth Division of the Fifteenth AGeneral Smith applied for and received a sick-leave on the 20th of July; Brigadier-General Hugh Ewing was assigned to its command; and from that time it constituted the Fourth Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps. Port Hudson had surrendered to General Banks on the 8th of July (a necessary consequence of the fall of Vicksburg), and thus terminated probably the most important enterprise of the civil war — the recovery of the complete control of the Mississippi River, from its source to its mouth — or, in the language of Mr. Lincoln, the Mississippi went unvexed to the sea. I put my four divisions into handsome, clean camps, looking to health and comfort alone, and had my headquarters in a
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 16 (search)
to go along. At Memphis I found Brigadier-General W. Sooy Smith, with a force of about twenty-fivsee, and I committed this task to Brigadier-General W. Sooy Smith. General Hurlbut had in his commaof these and the twenty-five hundred which General Smith had brought with him from Middle Tennessee. With this force General Smith was ordered to move from Memphis straight for Meridian, Mississipp immediately present with him, so that he (General Smith) might safely act on the hypothesis I haveted at Meridian till the 20th to hear from General Smith, but hearing nothing whatever, and having hia and Louisville, to feel as it were for General Smith, and then turned all the infantry columns hed Canton, but we had not heard a word of General Smith, nor was it until some time after (at Vicksburg) that I learned the whole truth of General Smith's movement and of his failure. Of course I d so reported officially to General Grant. General Smith never regained my confidence as a soldier,[1 more...]