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Browsing named entities in Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans). You can also browse the collection for December 10th or search for December 10th in all documents.
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9 : (search)
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Chapter 21:
Battle of Honey Hill
Sherman's advance into South Carolina
organization of the Confederate forces
burning of Columbia
battles of Averasboro and Bentonville
Conclusi0n.
After thoroughly destroying Atlanta, save its mere dwelling-houses, as is stated in his official report, Gen. W. T. Sherman began his march through Georgia on November 15, 1864, and on December 10th drove in the picket lines of the Confederate forces at Savannah under command of LieutenantGen-eral Hardee.
During Sherman's advance, his feints at Columbia, Ga., made it uncertain for a time whether he did not intend to enter South Carolina at that point.
On November 28th, before the arrival of Sherman at Savannah, Maj.-Gen. John G. Foster, commanding the Federal department of the South, left Hilton Head with all his available troops, amounting to 5,000 infantry, cavalry and artillery, with 500 sailors and marines, and went by boat to Boyd's Neck, on the south side of Broad river.
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