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Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
Mississippi, but Smith was headed off by Forrest and defeated in an engagement at West Point, Mississippi, on the 21st. After destroying the railroads on the route, General Sherman abandoned the enterprise, and on February 20th put his troops in motion toward central Mississippi, whence they were transferred, later, to Vicksburg and Memphis.--editors. On the 18th of March he turned over to me the command of the Western armies, and started back for Washington, I accompanying him as far as Cincinnati. Amidst constant interruptions of a business and social nature, we reached the satisfactory conclusion that, as soon as the season would permit, all the armies of the Union would assume the bold offensive by concentric lines on the common enemy, and would finish up the job in a single campaign if possible. The main objectives were Lee's army behind the Rapidan in Virginia, and Joseph E. Johnston's army at Dalton, Georgia. On reaching Washington, Grant studied with great care all the
Knoxville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
and here also Mr. Davis made his famous speech, which was duly reported to me in Atlanta, assuring his army that they would make my retreat more disastrous than was that of Napoleon from Moscow. Forewarned, I took immediate measures to thwart his plans. One division was sent back to Rome, another to Chattanooga; the guards along our railroad were reenforced and warned of the coming blow. General Thomas was sent back to the headquarters of his department at Nashville, Schofield to his at Knoxville, while I remained in Atlanta to await Hood's initiative. This followed soon. Hood, sending his cavalry ahead, crossed the Chattahoochee River at Campbelltown with his main army on the 1st of October, and moved to Dallas, detaching a strong force against the railroad above Marietta which destroyed it for fifteen miles, and then sent French's division to capture Allatoona. I followed Hood, reaching Kenesaw Mountain in time to see in the distance the attack on Allatoona, which was handsome
Dinwiddie Court House (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
re move was left to Lee on the chessboard of war: to abandon Richmond; make junction with Johnston in North Carolina; fall on me and destroy me if possible — a fate I did not apprehend; then turn on Grant, sure to be in close pursuit, and defeat him. 3ut no! Lee clung to his intrenchments for political reasons, and waited for the inevitable. At last, on the 1st day of April, General Sheridan, by his vehement and most successful attack on the Confederate lines at the Five Forks near Dinwiddie Court House, compelled Lee to begin his last race for life. He then attempted to reach Danville, to make junction with Johnston, but Grant in his rapid pursuit constantly interposed, and finally headed him off at Appomattox, and compelled the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, which for four years had baffled the skill and courage of the Army of the Potomac and the power of our National Government. This substantially ended the war, leaving only the formal proceedings of accepting the
West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
igned to the right, but crossed the Chattahoochee by the left, and soon confronted our enemy behind his first line of intrenchments at Peach Tree Creek, prepared in advance for this very occasion. At this critical moment the Confederate Government rendered us most valuable service. Being dissatisfied with the Fabian policy of General Johnston, it relieved him, and General Hood was substituted to command the Confederate army [July 18th]. Hood was known to us to be a fighter, a graduate of West Point of the class of 1853, No. 44, of which class two of my army commanders, McPherson and Schofield, were No. 1 and No. 7. The character of a leader is a large factor in the game of war, and I confess I was pleased at this change, of which I had early notice. I knew that I had an army superior in numbers and morale to that of my antagonist; but being so far from my base, and operating in a country devoid of food and forage, I was dependent for supplies on a poorly constructed railroad back t
Sevastapol (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
the railroad without attempting Allatoona, of which I had personal knowledge acquired in 1844, I resolved to push on toward Atlanta by way of Dallas; Johnston quickly detected this, and forced me to fight him, May 25th-28th, at New Hope Church, four miles north of Dallas, with losses of 3000 to the Confederates and 2400 to us. The country was almost in a state of nature — with few or no roads, nothing that a European could understand; yet the bullet killed its victim there as surely as at Sevastopol. Johnston had meantime picked up his detachments, and had received reenforcements from his rear which raised his aggregate strength to 62,000 men, and warranted him in claiming that he was purposely drawing us far from our base, and that when the right moment should come he would turn on us and destroy us. We were equally confident, and not the least alarmed. He then fell back to his position at Marietta, with Brush Mountain on his right, Kenesaw his center, and Lost Mountain his left.
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
U. S. Grant was summoned to Washington from Nashville to receive his commission of lieutenant-geneed to Washington the next day and went on to Nashville, to which place he had summoned me, then abs to assume the offensive northward as far as Nashville. But he soon discovered that he would have ack to the headquarters of his department at Nashville, Schofield to his at Knoxville, while I remaGeneral Schofield and two of my six corps to Nashville, all the reenforcements that Thomas deemed nsts do, but coupled with Thomas's acts about Nashville, and those about Richmond directed in personupplied his army, advanced against Thomas at Nashville, who had also made every preparation. Hood loss of 2326. Nevertheless he pushed on to Nashville, which he invested. Thomas, one of the granchofield, who had been brought by Grant from Nashville to Washington and sent down the Atlantic coasboro‘, or of the transfer of Schofield from Nashville to cooperate with me in North Carolina. Thi[1 more...]
Ohio (United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
ment and a surplus for expeditions, detached General Jubal A. Early with the equivalent of a corps to drive Hunter away from Lynchburg. Hunter, far from his base, with inadequate supplies of food and ammunition, retreated by the Kanawha to the Ohio River, his nearest base, thereby exposing the Valley of Virginia; whereupon Early, an educated soldier, promptly resolved to take advantage of the occasion, marched rapidly down this valley northward to Winchester, crossed the Potomac to Hagerstown, The March to the sea was in strategy only a shift of base for ulterior and highly important purposes. Many an orator in his safe office at the North had proclaimed his purpose to cleave his way to the sea. Every expedition which crossed the Ohio River in the early part of the war headed for the sea; but things were not ripe till the Western army had fought, and toiled, and labored down to Atlanta. Not General William T. Sherman at Atlanta. From a photograph. till then did a March to th
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
f that other campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Savannah, and Raleigh, which with liberal discretion was co necessity to reach the sea-coast for a new base. Savannah, distant three hundred miles, was the nearest poiner 21st, 1864. The army reached the vicinity of Savannah, December 10th, but did not get possession of the my secret thoughts and feeling when he wrote me at Savannah from Washington under date of December 26th, 1864:he grand march of the Western army from Atlanta to Savannah, and from Savannah to Raleigh, was an important faSavannah to Raleigh, was an important factor in the final result, the overwhelming victory at Appomattox, and the glorious triumph of the Union cause.chments at Mobile and along the sea-board north of Savannah. Of course Charleston, ever arrogant, felt secureory to the next move, General Howard was sent from Savannah to secure Pocotaligo, in South Carolina, as a poinportance of the movement of my army northward from Savannah to Goldsboro‘, or of the transfer of Schofield fro
Five Forks (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
arch, 1865, but one more move was left to Lee on the chessboard of war: to abandon Richmond; make junction with Johnston in North Carolina; fall on me and destroy me if possible — a fate I did not apprehend; then turn on Grant, sure to be in close pursuit, and defeat him. 3ut no! Lee clung to his intrenchments for political reasons, and waited for the inevitable. At last, on the 1st day of April, General Sheridan, by his vehement and most successful attack on the Confederate lines at the Five Forks near Dinwiddie Court House, compelled Lee to begin his last race for life. He then attempted to reach Danville, to make junction with Johnston, but Grant in his rapid pursuit constantly interposed, and finally headed him off at Appomattox, and compelled the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, which for four years had baffled the skill and courage of the Army of the Potomac and the power of our National Government. This substantially ended the war, leaving only the formal proceedi
Winnsboro (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5.35
converging on Richmond. Preparatory to the next move, General Howard was sent from Savannah to secure Pocotaligo, in South Carolina, as a point of departure for the north, and General Slocum to Sister's Ferry, on the Savannah River, to secure a safe lodgment on the north bank for the same purpose. In due tine — in February, 1865--these detachments, operating by concentric lines, met on the South Carolina road at Midway and Blackville, swept northward through Orangeburg and Columbia to Winnsboro‘, where the direction was changed to Fayetteville and Goldsboro‘, a distance of 420 miles through a difficult and hostile country, making junction with Schofield at a safe base with two good railroads back to the sea-coast, of which we held absolute dominion. The resistance of Hampton, Butler, Beauregard, and even Joe Johnston was regarded as trivial. Our objective was Lee's army at Richmond. When I reached Goldsboro‘, made junction. with Schofield, and moved forward to Raleigh, I was
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