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William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 11: (search)
o want to know if you are willing that I should destroy Atlanta and the railroad. And on this very date (October 17) he had received the following from General Grant: The moment I know you have started south, stores will be shipped to Hilton Head, where there are transports ready to take them to meet you at Savannah. In case you go south I would not propose holding any thing south of Chattanooga, certainly not south of Dalton. Destroy in such case all of military value in Atlanta. d fixing Dalton as the northern limit for the destruction of the railway. To this alternative letter Halleck replied, under date of October 31: The alternatives mentioned in your letter of October 19th will be prepared for by boats at Hilton Head and Pensacola, with means of transportation to any point where required. Certain correspondence, which passed between General Sherman before Atlanta and General Canby before Mobile, has a forcible bearing upon the questions under consider
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid, Chapter 12: (search)
leading through swamps or overflowed rice lands, and fall on this detachment with his whole army. General Sherman then continues (page 216, Vol. II): * * * * So, taking one or two of my personal staff, I rode back to King's Bridge, leaving with Generals Howard and Slocum orders to make all possible preparations, but not to attack, during my two or three days absence; and there I took a boat for Warsaw Sound, whence Admiral Dahlgren conveyed me in his own boat (the Harvest Moon) to Hilton Head, where I represented the matter to General Foster, and he promptly agreed to give his personal attention to it. During the night of the 20th we started back, the wind blowing strong. Admiral Dahlgren ordered the pilot of the Harvest Moon to run into Tybee, and to work his way through to Warsaw Sound and the Ogeechee River by the Romney marshes. We were caught by a low tide and stuck in the mud. After laboring some time, the Admiral ordered out his barge. In it we pulled through this in