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Chester, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 122
not take much care to preserve them. I am, with respect, yours truly, W. T. Sherman, Major-General Commanding. Major-General J. Wheeler, Commanding Cavalry Corps, Confederate Army. General Sherman to Wade Hampton. headquarters military division of the Mississippi, in the field, February 24, 1865. General: It is officially reported to me that our foraging parties are murdered after capture, and labelled Death to all foragers. One instance of a lieutenant and seven men near Chesterville, and another of twenty, near a ravine eighty rods from the main road, about three miles from Feastersville, I have ordered a similar number of prisoners in our hands to be disposed of in like manner. I hold about a thousand prisoners, captured in various ways, and can stand it as long as you, but I hardly think these murders are committed with your knowledge, and would suggest that you give notice to the people at large that every life taken by them simply results in the death of one o
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 122
up, regained his artillery, horses, camp, and everything save some prisoners, whom the enemy carried off, leaving their dead on the ground. The twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth were passed at Fayetteville, destroying absolutely the United States arsenal and the vast amount of machinery which had formerly belonged to the old Harper's Ferry United Statesarsenal. Every building was knocked down and burned, and every piece of machinery utterly broken up and ruined, by the First regiment Michigan engineers, under the immediate supervision of Colonel O. M. Poe, Chief Engineer. Much valuable property of great use to an enemy, was here destroyed, or cast into the river. Up to this period I had perfectly succeeded in interposing my superior army between the scattered parts of my enemy. But I was then aware that the fragments that had left Columbia under Beauregard had been reinforced by Cheatham's corps from the West, and the garrison of Augusta, and that ample time had been given
Whippy Swamp (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 122
s, brushing away cavalry, and covering the crossings of several difficult and important rivers, it was advantageously used at the following times and places, namely: January twenty, 1865, Pocotaligo, Seventeenth Army Corps. January twenty-two, 1865, Combahee, Fifteenth Army Corps. January twenty-nine, 1865, Robertsville, Twentieth Army Corps. February one, 1865, Hickory Hill, Fifteenth Army Corps. February two, 1865, Lawtonville, Twentieth Army Corps. February two, 1865, Whippy Swamp, Seventeenth Army Corps. February three, 1865, Store at Duck creek, Fifteenth Army Corps. February six, 1865, Little Salkehatchie, Fifteenth Army corps. February nine, 1865, Binnaker's bridge, Seventeenth Army Corps. February eleven, 1865, North Edisto, Seventeenth Army Corps. February fifteen, 1865, Congaree creek, Fifteenth Army Corps. February sixteen, 1865, Columbia, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Army Corps. February seventeen, 1865, Broad river, Fifteenth Army Corps.
Coosawhatchie, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 122
and thence by the fifteenth of January make a lodgement on the Charleston railroad, at or near Pocotaligo. This was accomplished punctually, at little cost, by the Seventeenth corps, Major-General Blair, and a depot for supplies was established near the mouth of Pocotaligo creek, with easy water communication back to Hilton Head. The left wing, Major-General Slocum, and the cavalry, Major-General Kilpatrick, were ordered to rendezvous about the same time near Robertsville and Coosawhatchie, South Carolina, with a depot of supplies at Pureysburg, or Sister's Ferry, on the Savannah river. General Slocum had a good pontoon bridge constructed opposite the city, and the Union causeway leading through the low rice fields opposite Savannah was repaired and corduroyed, but before the time appointed to start, the heavy rains of January had swelled the river, broken the pontoon bridge, and overflowed the whole bottom, so that the causeway was four feet under water, and General Slocum was co
Lancaster (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 122
Spartanburg road, the main body moving straight for Winnsboro, which General Slocum reached on the twenty-first of February. He caused the railroad to be destroyed up to Blackstakes depot, and then turned to Rocky Mount, on the Catawba river. The Twentieth corps reached Rocky Mount on the twenty-second, laid a pontoon bridge, and crossed over during the twenty-third. Kilpatrick's cavalry followed, and crossed over in a terrible rain during the night of the twenty-third, and moved up to Lancaster, with orders to keep up the delusion of a general movement on Charlotte, North Carolina, to which General Beauregard and all the cavalry of the enemy had retreated from Columbia. I was also aware that Cheatham's corps, of Hood's old army, was aiming to make a junction with Beauregard at Charlotte, having been cut off by our rapid movement on Columbia and Winnsboro. From the twenty-third to the twenty-sixth we had heavy rains, swelling the rivers and making the roads almost impassable. T
Tennessee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 122
nt of North Carolina, Army of the Ohio, Goldsboro, N. C., April 3, 1865. General: I have the honor to make the following report of the operations of the troops under my command since January 1, 1865, the date of my last report, addressed to Major-General George H. Thomas, commanding Department of the Cumberland, under whose command I was then serving. On the second of January, 1865, I marched with the Twenty-third Army Corps from Columbia, Tennessee, and arrived at Clifton, on the Tennessee river, on the eighth, under orders to embark my troops at that point, and, move to Eastport, Mississippi. But before the embarkation had commenced, I received, January fourteenth, an order from the Lieutenant-General commanding, through the Chief of Staff of the Army, to move with the Twenty-third Army Corps to Annapolis, Maryland. Accordingly the movement was commenced on the following day. The troops moved with their artillery and horses, but without wagons, by steam transports to Cincinn
Buford's Bridge (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 122
Beaufort's bridge, by way of Lawtonville and Allandale, Kilpatrick to Blackville via Barnwell, and General Slocum to hurry the crossing at Sisters' ferry as much as possible, and overtake the right wing on the South Carolina railroad. General Howard, with the right wing, was directed to cross the Salkehatchie and push rapidly for the South Carolina railroad, at or near Midway. The enemy held the line of the Salkehatchie in force, having infantry and artillery intrenched at Rivers' and Beaufort's bridges. The Seventeenth corps was ordered to carry Rivers' bridge, and the Fifteenth corps Beaufort's bridge. The former position was carried promptly and skilfully by Mower's and Giles A. Smith's divisions of the Seventeenth corps, on the third of February, by crossing the swamp, nearly three miles wide, with water varying from knee to shoulder-deep. The weather was bitter cold, and Generals Mower and Smith led their divisions in person, on foot, waded the swamp, made a lodgement below th
Broad River (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 122
n front of Columbia, but to cross the Saluda at the Factory, three miles above, and afterward Broad river, so as to approach Columbia from the north. Within an hour of the arrival of General Howard'y, on the sixteenth, skirmishing with cavalry, and the same night made a flying bridge across Broad river, about three miles above Columbia, by which he crossed over Stone's brigade, of Wood's divisiection of Winnsboro. At the same time the left wing and cavalry had crossed the Saluda and Broad rivers, breaking up the railroad about Alston, and as high up as the bridge across Broad river on thBroad river on the Spartanburg road, the main body moving straight for Winnsboro, which General Slocum reached on the twenty-first of February. He caused the railroad to be destroyed up to Blackstakes depot, and they sixteen, 1865, Columbia, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Army Corps. February seventeen, 1865, Broad river, Fifteenth Army Corps. March sixteen, 1865, Little Rockfish creek, Fifteenth Army Corps.
Williston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 122
e tenth of February this work was thoroughly prosecuted by the Seventeenth corps from the Edisto up to Bamberg, and by the Fifteenth corps from Bamberg up to Blackville. In the meantime General Kilpatrick had brought his cavalry rapidly by Barnwell to Blackville, and had turned toward Aiken, with orders to threaten Augusta, but not to be drawn needlessly into a serious battle. This he skilfully accomplished, skirmishing heavily with Wheeler's cavalry, first at Blackville and afterward at Williston and Aiken. General Williams, with two divisions of the Twentieth corps, marched to the South Carolina railroad at Graham Station on the eighth, and General Slocum reached Blackville on the tenth. The destruction of the railroad was continued by the left wing from Blackville up to Windsor. By the eleventh of February all the army was on the railroad from Midway to Johnson's station, thereby dividing the enemy's forces, which still remained at Branchville and Charlestonon the one hand, Ai
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 122
harmony of action reflects upon all concerned quite as much real honor and fame as battles gained or cities won, and I therefore commend all, generals, staff, officers, and men, for these high qualities, in addition to the more soldierly ones of obedience to orders and the alacrity they have always manifested when danger summoned them to the front. I have the honor to be Your obedient servant, W. T. Sherman, Major-General, Commanding. Major-General H. W. Halleck, Chief of Staff, Washington, D. C. Gfneral Schofield's report. headquarters Department of North Carolina, Army of the Ohio, Goldsboro, N. C., April 3, 1865. General: I have the honor to make the following report of the operations of the troops under my command since January 1, 1865, the date of my last report, addressed to Major-General George H. Thomas, commanding Department of the Cumberland, under whose command I was then serving. On the second of January, 1865, I marched with the Twenty-third Army Cor
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