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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
Chapter 20: the March to the sea — from Atlanta to Savannah.
November and December, 1864.
On the 12th of November the railroad and telegraph communications with the rear were broken, and the army stood detached from all friends, dependent on its own resources and supplies.
No time was to be lost; all the detachments were ordered to march rapidly for Atlanta, breaking up the railroad en route, and generally to so damage the country as to make it untenable to the enemy.
By the 14th all th en.
At that time the weather was cold and sleety, the ground was covered with ice and snow, and both parties for a time rested on the defensive.
Thus matters stood at Nashville, while we were closing down on Savannah, in the early part of December, 1864; and the country, as well as General Grant, was alarmed at the seeming passive conduct of General Thomas; and General Grant at one time considered the situation so dangerous that he thought of going to Nashville in person, but General John A.
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 23 (search)
Chapter 21: Savannah and Pocotaligo.
December, 1864, and January, 1865.
The city of Savannah was an old place, and usually accounted a handsome one.
Its houses were of brick or frame, with large yards, ornamented with shrubbery and flowers; its streets perfectly regular, crossing each other at right angles; and at many of the intersections were small inclosures in the nature of parks.
These streets and parks were lined with the handsomest shade-trees of which I have knowledge, viz., the South Carolina, and were ready to resume the march northward; but we had not yet accumulated enough provisions and forage to fill the wagons, and other causes of delay occurred, of which I will make mention in due order.
On the last day of December, 1864, Captain Breese, United States Navy, flag-officer to Admiral Porter, reached Savannah, bringing the first news of General Butler's failure at Fort Fisher, and that the general had returned to James River with his land-forces, leaving Admiral