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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 12 (search)
wo brigades, under General M. L. Smith, to Holly Springs, in the belief that I could better protectHatchie from Corinth, and was destined for Holly Springs, ordering me to cooperate as far as advisahed to the Coldwater, within four miles of Holly Springs. We encountered only small detachments ofd Pierson, and drove them into and through Holly Springs; but they hung about, and I kept an infantry brigade in Holly Springs to keep them out. I heard nothing from General Hamilton till the 5th of that he had been within nineteen miles of Holly Springs and had turned back for Corinth; and on thourier from Moscow, not to attempt to hold Holly Springs, but to fall back and protect the railroad the river, and was collected at and about Holly Springs, where, reenforced by Armstrong's and Forreatedly sent out strong detachments toward Holly Springs, which was his main depot of supply; and Gterly ruined; as it was, Van Dorn regained Holly Springs somewhat demoralized. General Rosecrans[1 more...]
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
ntrenched on a line behind the Tallahatchie River below Holly Springs; that he would move on Holly Springs and Abberville, frHolly Springs and Abberville, from Grand Junction; that McPherson, with the troops at Corinth, would aim to make junction with him at Holly Springs; and thatHolly Springs; and that he wanted me to leave in Memphis a proper garrison, and to aim for the Tallahatchie, so as to come up on his right by a certommunication with General Grant when we were abreast of Holly Springs. We reached Wyatt on the 2d day of December without threcord. While General Van Dorn had his headquarters in Holly Springs, viz., in October, 1862, he was very short of the comfo General Grant was not coming at all; that his depot at Holly Springs had been captured by Van Dorn, and that he had drawn back from Coffeeville and Oxford to Holly Springs and Lagrange; and, further, that Quimby's division of Grant's army was actual. It afterward transpired that Van Dorn had captured Holly Springs on the 20th of December, and that General Grant fell ba
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
rtially to induce General Grant to call on General McClernand for a similar expression of opinion, but, so far as I know, he did not. lie went on quietly to work out his own designs; and he has told me, since the war, that had we possessed in December, 1862, tie experience of marching and maintaining armies without a regular base, which we afterward acquired, he would have gone on from Oxford as first contemplated, and would not have turned back because of the destruction of his depot at Holly Springs by Van Dorn. The distance from Oxford to the rear of Vicksburg is little greater than by the circuitous route we afterward followed, from Bruinsburg to Jackson and Vicksburg, during which we had neither depot nor train of supplies. I have never criticised General Grant's strategy on this or any other occasion, but I thought then that he had lost an opportunity, which cost him and us six months extra-hard work, for we might have captured Vicksburg from the direction of Oxford in January
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
ng. 2. The right wing, Major-General Howard commanding, will move out on the Chapel Hill road, and send a light division up in the direction of Chapel Hill University to act in connection with the cavalry; but the main columns and trains will move via Hackney's Cross-Roads, and Trader's Hill, Pittsboroa, St. Lawrence, etc., to be followed by the cavalry and light division, as soon as the bridge is laid over Haw River. 3. The centre, Major-General Schofield commanding, will move via Holly Springs, New Hill, Haywood, and Moffitt's Mills. 4. The left wing, Major-General Slocum commanding, will move rapidly by the Aven's Ferry road, Carthage, Caledonia, and Cox's Mills. 5. All the troops will draw well out on the roads designated during today and to-morrow, and on the following day will move with all possible rapidity for Ashboroa. No further destruction of railroads, mills, cotton, and produce, will be made without the specific orders of an army commander, and the inhabitant