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Hampton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
age. Gen. Heth had crossed Hatcher's Run to attack the enemy, and Mahone's division quickly assailed Hancock's right in its exposed situation, driving back Gibbon's division more than a mile, and inflicting upon it considerable loss. Meanwhile Hampton's cavalry fell upon the rear of Hancock, and increased the disorder. Mahone captured four hundred prisoners, three stand of colours, and six pieces of artillery. A subsequent effort of the enemy to recover his position was bravely resisted; Ged to operate towards Augusta, advancing as far as Waynesboroa, to create the impression of a heavy movement upon Augusta. There had been concentrated at this city some Confederate militia, two or three South Carolina regiments, and a portion of Hampton's command, sent there to remount. Even if the real movement of Sherman's army had been known, this force could not have interposed any serious obstacle to the advance of his main body, as long as his left wing was used as a strong arm thrust ou
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
tion of his plans. public attention drawn to Georgia. Sherman's march to the sea. he returns froy after the march of Sherman through the State of Georgia; and to this event, fraught with consequethe sea. At last accounts of operations in Georgia, Gen. Sherman was meditating a march to the s and none more so, perhaps, than that part of Georgia now traversed by Sherman's troops. There werard of in Sherman's army on its march through Georgia. The cattle trains soon became so large thatd on the 21st November entered the capital of Georgia. Meanwhile Howard, covered by a cloud of Kilg thus rapidly concentrated at the capital of Georgia, after having threatened both Augusta and Macetrated and devastated the richest portion of Georgia, and was now on the line of the pine forests laves. I estimate the damage done to the State of Georgia and its military resources at one hundredo find in the easy marches of Sherman through Georgia, any great military merit, or to discover in
Milledgeville (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
it traverses full of supplies. pillage of Madison. concentration of the enemy's forces at Milledgeville. an affair of militia at Griswoldsville.Kilpatrick's demonstration on Augusta. statement o the right wing, should follow the Georgia Central road, running southeast through Macon and Milledgeville to Savannah; while Slocum, commanding the left wing, was to march directly east, on the rails, broken and wrecked in mere wantonness. From Madison Slocum turned suddenly south towards Milledgeville, and on the 21st November entered the capital of Georgia. Meanwhile Howard, covered by a clrick's cavalry, had demonstrated on Macon, and crossing the Ocmulgee, had pressed on towards Milledgeville; Sherman's forces being thus rapidly concentrated at the capital of Georgia, after having therious fight of Sherman's campaign from Atlanta to the sea. Having sufficiently rested at Milledgeville, Sherman resumed his march eastward; while Kilpatrick's cavalry continued to operate towards
Danville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
n, but little was done by the Federals in front of Petersburg. In the remaining months of summer and autumn, some maneuvers were executed with more or less breadth of design, which may be briefly stated here in the order of their occurrence. On the 18th and 19th August, Grant's left under Warren, after a defeat on the first day, succeeded in holding the Weldon Railroad. This line of communication with the South was not of any great importance to Gen. Lee, as long as he held the road to Danville, the main avenue to the fertile grain districts of the South. A series of severe actions, however, ensued to break Warren's hold upon the road; and he maintained his position only after a loss which he himself officially reports as 4,455 killed, wounded, and missing. Meanwhile Hancock's corps was brought in rear of the position held by Warren, and ordered to destroy a southward section of the road. On the 25th August, this force was encountered at Reams' station by A. P. Hill's corps unde
Fort McAllister (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
oops in pillage and villainy. nothing but militia and hasty levies to oppose him. Sherman's approach to Savannah. Fort McAllister taken by assault. gallantry of the Confederate garrison. Gen. Hardee evacuates Savannah. extent of Sherman's capt was to open communication with Dahlgren's fleet, which lay in Ossabaw Sound, and he therefore determined to capture Fort McAllister, at the mouth of the Ogeechee, which enters the ocean but a few miles south of the Savannah. Fort McAllister was Fort McAllister was a large enclosure, with wide parapets, a deep ditch and thickly-planted palisades. There were twenty-one guns, large and small, in the fort, all mounted en barbette. It had resisted two or three bombardments of the enemy's iron-clads; and it appear three sabre and two gun-shot wounds, and faint from loss of blood. When Sherman saw the Federal flag raised upon Fort McAllister, he seized a slip of paper, and telegraphed to Washington: I regard Savannah as already gained. The possession of t
Newmarket, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
er's front resulted in a serious disaster to the Confederates, and, it must be confessed, accomplished one real success for this ill-stared General in the operations against Richmond. On the night of the 28th September, Butler crossed to the north side of the James, with the corps of Birney and Ord, and moved up the river with the design of attacking the very strong fortifications and entrenchments below Chapin's farm. known as Fort Harrison. A portion of Butler's force was moved on the Newmarket road, and while a severe engagement was occurring there, a column of the enemy made a flank movement on Fort Harrison, and practically succeeded in surprising this important work, which surrendered after a very feeble resistance on the part of the artillery, and while a force of Confederates was on the double-quick to reinforce it. This fort occupied a commanding position below Drewry's Bluff, and constituted the main defence of that part of our lines. Its loss, with fifteen pieces of
Napoleon (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
around Savannah, he never had a thousand men on his front to dispute his advance; he had nothing to threaten his rear beyond a .few bodies of Confederate horse; he moved through a country so full of supplies that his own commissariat was scarcely taxed to subsist his army; he himself telegraphed to Washington: Our march was most agreeable, and compared it to a pleasure-trip. And yet this pleasant excursion the North insisted upon amplifying as a great military exploit, to be compared with Napoleon's march to Moscow, and other splendid adventures of invasion, while the chief excursionist was raised to the dignity of a hero. Sherman is an example of the reputation achieved in the North by intrepid charlatanism and self-assertion. He had elements of Northern popularity outside of the severe circle of military accomplishments. His swagger was almost irresistible; he wrote slang phrases in his official despatches; his style was a flash Fourth-of-July tangled oratory, that never fails
Ossabaw Sound (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
osed gradually and steadily in upon Savannah; and on the 10th December it lay in line of battle, confronting the outer works about five miles distant from the city. His first task was to open communication with Dahlgren's fleet, which lay in Ossabaw Sound, and he therefore determined to capture Fort McAllister, at the mouth of the Ogeechee, which enters the ocean but a few miles south of the Savannah. Fort McAllister was a large enclosure, with wide parapets, a deep ditch and thickly-plantegun-shot wounds, and faint from loss of blood. When Sherman saw the Federal flag raised upon Fort McAllister, he seized a slip of paper, and telegraphed to Washington: I regard Savannah as already gained. The possession of the fort opened Ossabaw Sound, effected communication with Dahlgren's fleet, and indeed made the capture of Savannah, where Hardee appeared to be shut up with ten or twelve thousand men, but a question of time. But it was Sherman's hope to capture Hardee's army with the
Stony Creek (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
mishers were encountered, and a lively fire of musketry was kept up all the morning. When the Boydton road was reached the Confederates were found strongly entrenched at every point. It was thought that by making a wide detour these intrenchments could be taken in flank and the Confederates forced back to Petersburg; but when Hancock's corps reached a point below where the Confederate works were supposed to terminate, they were found to extend a considerable distance in the direction of Stony Creek, and their appearance was so formidable that it was deemed imprudent to attempt to carry them. During Hancock's march towards what was supposed to be the extreme right of the Confederate line, a gap occurred between his right and the left of the Fifth corps. The Confederates were not slow to perceive the advantage. Gen. Heth had crossed Hatcher's Run to attack the enemy, and Mahone's division quickly assailed Hancock's right in its exposed situation, driving back Gibbon's division mo
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 37
levies to oppose him. Sherman's approach to Savannah. Fort McAllister taken by assault. gallantr Confederate garrison. Gen. Hardee evacuates Savannah. extent of Sherman's captures. how much of more than ten thousand men, remained to cover Savannah; that the clans of militia and small detachme columns, by as many different roads, towards Savannah. About ten mites from the city his left wingis army closed gradually and steadily in upon Savannah; and on the 10th December it lay in line of baper, and telegraphed to Washington: I regard Savannah as already gained. The possession of the forlgren's fleet, and indeed made the capture of Savannah, where Hardee appeared to be shut up with tenpresent you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and pliles on either side of a line from Atlanta to Savannah, as also the sweet potatoes, cattle, hogs, shle to the day he encountered the lines around Savannah, he never had a thousand men on his front to [1 more...]
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