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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 15: Sherman's March to the sea.--Thomas's campaign in Middle Tennessee.--events in East Tennessee. (search)
seless waste of life to attempt to defend it against such assailants. The citizens shared in this feeling, and many of them, accompanied by the mayor and aldermen of the city, waited upon General Hardee, at his Headquarters in Oglethorpe Barracks, and insisted upon his surrender of the post. After putting into Captain Williamson's hands commuinications for Foster, Dahlgren, and the War Department, Sherman returned to Fort McAllister, and lodged that night; and early the next morning Dec. 14, 1864. he met General Foster, who had come up the Ogeechee Hardee's Headquarters. this was the appearance of the large brick building on the corner of Bull and Harris streets, Savannah, known as Oglethorpe Barracks, as it appeared when the writer sketched it in April, 1866. this was the military Headquarters of the Confederates in Savannah, from the beginning of the war. in the steamer Nemaha, during the night. The first vessel that passed Fort McAllister from the sea, was the mail-s