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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)
of the former State. Arise for the defense of your native soil, shouted Beauregard in a manifesto, as he was hastening from the Appomattox to the Savannah. He told them to destroy all the roads in Sherman's front, flank and rear, and to be confident, and resolute, and trustful in an overruling Providence. He dismayed the thinking men of the State by saying, I hasten to join you in defense of your homes and firesides, for they knew his incompetency and dreaded his folly. From Richmond, B. H. Hill, a Georgia Senator, cried to the people of his State: Every citizen with his gun, and every negro with his spade and ax, can do the work of a soldier. You can destroy the enemy by retarding his march. Be firm! Seddon, the Secretary of War, indorsed the message; and the representatives of Georgia in the Confederate Congress sent an earnest appeal to the people to fly to arms, assuring them that President Davis and the Secretary of War would do every thing in their power to help them in t