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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
nd Lieutenant-Colonel Willard Warner, inspector-general. These officers constituted my staff proper at the beginning of the campaign, which remained substantially the same till the close of the war, with very few exceptions; viz.: Surgeon John Moore, United States Army, relieved Surgeon Kittoe of the volunteers (about Atlanta) as medical director; Major Henry Hitchcock joined as judge-advocate, and Captain G. Ward Nichols reported as an extra aide-de-camp (after the fall of Atlanta) at Gaylesville, just before we started for Savannah. During the whole month of April the preparations for active war were going on with extreme vigor, and my letter-book shows an active correspondence with Generals Grant, Halleck, Thomas, McPherson, and Schofield on thousands of matters of detail and arrangement, most of which are embraced in my testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, vol. i., Appendix. When the time for action approached, viz., May 1, 1861, the actual armies pr
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
Schofield did not reach me till the army had got down to Gaylesville, about the 21st of October. It was at Ship's Gap thatinggold by rail, and thence by wagons to our camps about Gaylesville. Meantime, also, Hood had reached the neighborhood of G and Melville Post-Office. I shall pursue him as far as Gaylesville. The enemy will not venture toward Tennessee except aroe to Blue Mountain. On the 21st of October I reached Gaylesville, had my bivouac in an open field back of the village, antrol the movement of his supplies and to watch me. At Gaylesville the pursuit of Hood by the army under my immediate comma aggravated on the march, and when we were encamped near Gaylesville, I visited him in company with Surgeon John Moore, Uniteeing carried on a litter toward Rome; and as I rode from Gaylesville to Rome, I passed him by the way, stopped, and spoke witnley), fifteen thousand; and that corps was ordered from Gaylesville to march to Chattanooga, and thence report for orders to
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
e buildings of Atlanta which could be converted to hostile uses, and on the morning of the 16th started with my personal staff, a company of Alabama cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Snelling, and an infantry company, commanded by Lieutenant McCrory, which guarded our small train of wagons. My staff was then composed of Major L. M. Dayton, aide-de-camp and acting adjutant-general, Major J. C. McCoy, and Major J. C. Audenried, aides. Major Ward Nichols had joined some weeks before at Gaylesville, Alabama, and was attached as an acting aide-de-camp. Also Major Henry Hitch-cock had joined at the same time as judge-advocate. Colonel Charles Ewing was inspector-general, and Surgeon John Moore medical director. These constituted our mess. We had no tents, only the flies, with which we nightly made bivouacs with the assistance of the abundant pine-boughs, which made excellent shelter, as well as beds. Colonel L. C. Easton was chief-quartermaster; Colonel Amos Beckwith, chief-commissa