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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . | 9 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Sherman 's attack at the tunnel. (search)
Sherman's attack at the tunnel. by S. H. M. Byers, Captain, U. S. V.
It was the eve of the battle of Chattanooga.
I had lately returned to the Army of the Tennessee, after a very short furlough, from my home in the West.
How well I remember it-ten days of furlough out of four years of war!
It was the only time in the whole four years that I slept in a bed. We had helped to capture Vicksburg after a hundred days siege, and felt entitled to a rest.
My regiment, the 5th Iowa, had already marched 2000 miles in two years. But Rosecrans was in straits, Sherman was called for, and we made the forced march of four hundred miles from Memphis to Chattanooga without a murmur.
Our camp was a concealed one in which no fires or lights were permitted — no noises allowed.
In the darkness of the previous night, the command had left bright fires burning in a wood, and had secretly marched to this hidden position.
Close beside it, the broad and rapid waters of the Tennessee rolled off into