Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Flag-Officer W. W. Hunter” in chapter 17 of Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia:
...f his army and that of the city of Savannah, to sacrifice the latter.
One of the precautions taken by Hardee to prevent Sherman from cutting off his retreat into South Carolina was the sending of Flag-Officer W. W. Hunter up the Savannah river to destroy the Charleston and Savannah railroad bridge.
Taking his flagship Sampson, the gunboat Macon and a small transport steamer laden with supplies, Hunter successfully ...
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