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Doc. 44. campaign of the Carolinas. General Sherman's report. headquarters military division of the Mississippi, Goldsboro, N. G., April 4, 1865. General: I must now endeavor to group the events of the past three months, connected with the armies under my command, in order that you may have as clear an understanding of the late campaign as the case admits of. The reports of the subordinate commanders will enable you to fill up the picture. I have heretofore explained how, in the progress of our arms, I was enabled to leave in the West an army under Major-General George H. Thomas of sufficient strength to meet emergencies in that quarter, while in person I conducted another army, composed of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Twentieth corps, and Kilpatrick's division of cavalry, to the Atlantic slope, aiming to approach the grand theater of war in Virginia by the time the season would admit of military operations in that latitude. The first lodgement on the
ed at a dash what might have been lost by fighting. I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, B. D. Pritchard, Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Michigan cavalry. headquarters Second brigade, Second division, cavalry corps, Selma, Alabama, April 4, 1865. Captain — I beg to hand you the following report of the part taken by my brigade in the assault and capture of Selma, on second instant: On the night of the thirty-first of March I was encamped ten miles north of Montevallo, and on e ought to be a sufficient amount accumulated here in the event of the river's falling, to hold out till the Central Railroad is repaired. E. Upton, Brevet Major-General United States Volunteers. headquarters cavalry corps, M. D. M., Selma, April 4, 1865. General — I took this place by assault at six P. M. on the second ; captured twenty field guns, two thousand prisoners, and large quantity of stores, besides all the iron works north of here. Forrest, Dick Taylor, Adams, and Armstrong