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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 30: (search)
the Navy was only received to-day. I took immediate steps to have transports collected, and am assured they will be ready with coal and water by noon of the 2nd of January. There will be no delay in embarking and sending off the troops. . . . If they effect a lodgment, they can at least fortify and maintain themselves until reisulting with me freely as regards weather and landing. Butler received no intimation of the renewal of the expedition. Grant simply telegraphed him on the 2nd of January: Please send Major-General Terry to City Point to see me this morning. I cannot go myself, he said to the Secretary of War, so long as Butler would be left ided for its capture, but under a different commander; and Terry, who was gallant, intelligent, and soldierly, seemed the most appropriate selection. On the 2nd of January, he received from Grant in person orders to take command of the troops intended for the movement. A small brigade numbering fifteen hundred men had been adde
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 31: (search)
7th of December, that the general-in-chief definitely instructed Sherman to march with his entire army north by land. At the same time, he directed the formation of an entrenched camp about Pocotaligo or Coosawhatchie, on the railroad between Savannah and Charleston. This, he said, will give us a position in the South from which we can threaten the interior without marching over long narrow causeways, easily defended, as we have heretofore been compelled to do. Sherman replied on the 2nd of January, announcing that he would be ready to start on the 15th, if he could get the necessary supplies in the wagons by that time. But until these supplies are in hand, he said, I can do nothing. After they are, I shall be ready to move with great rapidity. In fulfilment of Grant's directions, Sherman now moved the Fifteenth corps on transports to the neighborhood of Pocotaligo, while his left wing with the cavalry was also thrown forward, working slowly at first to open a road, and then b